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Struggles surrounding prison radicalisation research

Since the 9/11 attack, terrorism studies have received a great volume of attention from academics. Terrorism is not a field that is easily researched, at least at first glance, and as such it...

Methodological and Theoretical approaches to Ed Tech Research and Usage

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.   This planned mid-year Joint BERA Educational...

Transitions: Challenges, Threats & Opportunities across the Post-compulsory Sectors

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.     The UK Government continues to reorganise...

Early Career Researcher Symposium Series: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research (Portsmouth)

Early Career Researcher Symposium Series 2018: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research

This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events.   Discussants: Dr Wendy Sims-Schouten and Dr...

Using technology for teaching independent-living skills to children with cognitive disabilities

Independent-living skills training is a core service offered by almost every rehabilitation centre for children with cognitive disabilities. The ulti-mate goal is to help children reach a high...

The battle against being educated

I have been publicly exploring the issue of disruption, violence and students’ challenging behaviour in post-school classrooms since 2000 (Lebor, 2000). Susan Wallace has also carried out...

REF 2021 – David James speaks at BERA Conference 2018 – Download Available

At this year's BERA Conference, held at Northumbria University 11-13th September 2018, BERA invited Professor David James as Chair of the UK REF 2021 Education sub-panel to speak in a Breakfast...

A new tool to help teachers as digital learning designers

We began with a sense of mission: to support teachers in making effective use of learning technologies. Educational research has done little so far to help teachers into the digital age; policy...

Phonics ‘first and fast’… but at what cost?

Reading is one of life’s profound joys. According to reading expert Maryanne Wolf, reading changes the very structure of our brain and neural pathways; the act allows us to go beyond our own...

Reflecting on the conference season: Where did your presentations end up as a result of social media dissemination?

As you reflect on the BERA Conference, have you thought about where images of and reflections about your presentations ended up as a result of social media dissemination? Who heard about them, who...

Nature, Outdoor Learning and Play

The aim of this SIG is to provide a focus for the wealth of outdoor learning research taking place in the UK, and beyond. We aim for this SIG to work closely with existing SIGs and to encourage...

A new approach to observing different learners’ interactive behavior and learning performance in cMOOCs

With the development of web 2.0 technology and social media, learners can share, collect, and edit content with peers or friends to create knowledge. In these social spaces, learning approaches...