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Will Farr

Will Farr is an academic researcher at Cambridge University, Faculty of Education, conducting studies to assess and improve the diagnostic pathways for children with possible autism, digital...

Kate Lewis

Kate Lewis is a Research Fellow at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, where her research leverages linked administrative education and health data to study the social...

Educational Research and Educational Policy-Making SIG Convenor 2025-2028

The Educational Research and Educational Policy-Making SIG has an opening for a convenor, to work alongside current convenor Craig Skerritt This SIG provides a space for BERA members interested...

Kitty Stewart

Kitty Stewart is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Associate Director of LSE’s Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. She has a PhD in...

Claudine Bowyer-Crane

Claudine Bowyer-Crane is Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. She has a PhD in Psychology from the University of York. Claudine’s research focuses...

Lee Elliot-Major

Lee Elliot Major is Britain’s first Professor of Social Mobility, based at the University of Exeter. He was previously chief executive of the Sutton Trust. His work is dedicated to improving the...

Cecilia Zuniga-Montanez

Cecilia Zuniga-Montanez is a research associate at the University of Sheffield, working on a project exploring the impacts of Covid-19-related disruptions on children’s language, socioemotional...

Rob Newton

Rob Newton is Associate Strategic Director at Huntington Research School in York. He is an experienced primary school senior leader and local authority officer, and in local government leads on...

Elena Lisauskaite

Elena Lisauskaite is a senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth and Research Fellow for the ICICLES project. Before starting her current role, she was an economist at the National Institute...

Cristina McKean

Cristina McKean is Professor of Child Language Development & Disorders and a Senior Academic Research Leader at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. Before joining the department and...

Alice Tawell

Alice Tawell is a researcher in the Rees Centre and the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. Alice was...

Creating opportunities for learning across subjects through the Titanic disaster

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

Teaching about local, national and global disasters, such as the Titanic disaster of 1912, can encourage young people to engage with an interdisciplinary approach that draws upon diverse...