SIG Forum Meeting – Children and Childhoods
Join the Children and Childhoods SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2023 This meeting will be hosted online,...
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Why is the Trump Baby so dangerous for children’s citizenship?
A balloon depicting President Donald Trump in the guise of a baby was inflated in Parliament Square in London on 13 July 2018. As the central image of the street protests during Trump’s visit to...
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‘Learning for All’
BERA is funding six new small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants support projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide...
Where is the love? Invoking dispolitical love as a force for change in SEND policy and practice
Where is the love in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) policy? Politicising love, as a force for driving social justice and change, has deep roots in Black feminist activism (Nash,...
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Developing workplace support for childhood trauma survivors: A toolkit for employers
The extent of childhood trauma in our society is only too apparent when you read the data. One in five adults, for example, aged 18 to 74 years has experienced at least one form of child abuse...
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Food banks in schools and the ‘cost of living’ crisis
In the UK, over 2.6 million children experience food insecurity, which is defined as those who have limited or unreliable access to food due to a lack of financial resources (Power et al., 2020;...
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SIG Forum Meeting – Children and Childhoods
Join the Children & Childhoods SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2022 This meeting will be hosted on Zoom,...
Year 3 student career choices: Exploring societal changes in constructions of masculinity and femininity in career choice justifications
Gender stereotypes continue to play a significant role in how children imagine their future careers, and in the long term, these stereotypes may limit opportunities for both boys and girls. We...
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Call for abstracts: Theorising educational engagement, transitions & outcomes for care-experienced people
Editors Zoe Baker (University of York), Katie Ellis (University of Sheffield) and Neil Harrison (University of Oxford) are seeking high-quality, international contributions for a forthcoming...
Collaging childhoods’ relationships
In October 2021, the BERA Children and Childhoods special interest group (SIG) organised the webinar Transforming Childhoods’ Relationships, sharing seven doctoral research studies to explore...
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Dyslexia: To identify or ignore?
When it comes to identifying whether a child has dyslexic tendencies, parents/guardians and teachers can experience a combination of feelings about whether this is for the best. The principal...
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Transforming Childhoods’ Relationships: A Collage of Experience
Online registration has now closed for this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. #BERA_Transform @BERANews These are unprecedented times. The world is grappling with a...
