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Does educational research lack discipline?

Several years ago, Dominic Wyse addressed the long-running issue of whether education is a discipline. I suggest that an essential requirement for a discipline is engagement between those adopting...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 161

Teacher education

Are LGBT+ people underrepresented in academia?

Higher education institutions (HEIs) rightly seek to be diverse and inclusive. Many initiatives focus on LGBT+ people as a group which is presumed to be underrepresented. Now, for the first time,...

Degrees of difference: Exploring degree-award gaps

At the BERA Conference 2023 our symposium was the first to examine attainment disparities in racially minoritised university students. Four papers showed how interpersonal relationships,...

Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)

The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all...

Playing with Playmobil: Supporting undergraduate conceptual understanding in environmental and sustainability education

Playful approaches to learning are well established when teaching children, especially those in early childhood. But there is mounting research evidence about the value of playful learning in...

Women in higher education leadership in Nigeria, South Africa and the UK: Barriers and challenges

Numerous studies in higher education have examined women’s leadership in academic institutions both within specific countries and from an international perspective (Barnard et al., 2022;...

BERA Bites, issue 9: What are we educating for?

BERA Bites

This BERA Bites collection started out as a seminar series in which policymakers, educational practitioners and researchers came together to discuss what we are educating for across the English...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 160

Education and democracy

Sub-Saharan faces in Caucasian spaces: Black African international PhD students’ experiences in the UK

BERA Conference 2023

In the academic year 2020/2021, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) documented a total of 605,000 international students who were enrolled in UK higher education institutions. Out of...

Spring 2024

Research Intelligence issue 158: Unheard voices: Language education outside the mainstream

Research Conversations on Identities in Doctoral Learning and Supervision

This was a joint event between the Higher Education SIG, Youth Studies and Informal Education SIG & Early Career Researcher Network. This event shared narratives of starting points and strategies...