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BERA Conference 2023

12 September 2023 to 14 September 2023Aston University/ Conference Aston

The BERA Conference 2023 was held on the 12th-14th September 2023 at Conference Aston/Aston University. Keynote speakers included: Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith. The conference ended with three...

Autumn 2023

Research Intelligence issue 156: Intersectionality: Teaching & learning in UK schools

Doing the heavy lifting: The experiences of working-class professional service and administrative staff in Russell Group universities

BERA Conference 2023

Understanding what life is like for those studying and working within universities has been of increased interest to higher education research, policy and practice over the past 15 years....

The grass ceiling: Contextualising English rural/urban educational outcomes

The traditional narrative of urban–rural educational disadvantage is that urban pupils do less well in the English exam system. Decontextualised data (as exemplified in table 1 across different...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 158

Unheard voices in education research

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of six research projects funded by BERA’s 2022/23 Small Grants Fund (SGF) on the theme ‘learning for all’. The projects...

Food banks in schools

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Exploring the impact on children’s learning

Developing (language) learning opportunities for precarious migrant workers at higher education institutions

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Charting possibilities, challenges & recommendations

Beyond ‘Navel Gazing’: Autoethnography as a Catalyst for Change – Part 2

We will be using an umbrella theme of ‘Beyond ‘Navel Gazing’ (Tummons 2007): Autoethnography as a Catalyst for Change’ to anchor all activities during the next year. This theme is flexible...

Call for reviewers for landmark BERA & BCF publication

BERA and the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) are currently editing an exciting landmark publication, Curriculum in a changing world: 50 think pieces on education policy, practice, innovation &...

What do Home Office plans to remove dependent student visas reveal about the invisibility of student-parents?

Access to UK universities cannot be taken for granted; it has taken centuries for the working class, women and migrants from developing nations to be matriculated. My PhD study explores how...

Beyond ‘Navel Gazing’: Autoethnography as a Catalyst for Change

We used an umbrella theme of ‘Beyond ‘Navel Gazing’ (Tummons 2007): Autoethnography as a Catalyst for Change’ to anchor all activities during the next year. This theme is flexible and...