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Transforming Childhoods’ Relationships: A Collage of Experience

These are unprecedented times. The world is grappling with a pandemic, huge environmental challenges, racial, social and economic inequalities, democratic deficit and a profound transformation of...

Childhood bereavement: A call for national policy that considers young people’s views

This blog reflects on a study recently published in Review of Education that investigated teachers' perspectives on supporting bereaved children in British primary schools (Abraham-Steele &...

The impact of Covid-19 on children in early years settings

In April 2020, senior managers from Kids Planet Day Nurseries[1] approached researchers at York St John University to explore the impact of Covid-19 on the young children in their care. Two...

Zeta Williams-Brown

Reader in Education for Social Justice

Zeta Williams-Brown is a reader in Education for Social Justice in the School of Education at the University of Wolverhampton. She is leader of the Childhood, Youth and Families Research and...

Examining the impact of Covid-19 on children’s centres in Bristol

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Lessons for policy, practice & promoting life chances in the early years

Emergency remote learning in the UK: A comparison of March 2020 and January 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has severely impacted everyday life around the world. In the UK, lockdowns have resulted in the closure of schools to most children for two prolonged periods: March to summer...

Children and Childhoods SIG Convenor Vacancy

BERA invites expressions of interest from those who would like to act as a convenor for the BERA Children and Childhoods SIG. The aim of Children and Childhoods SIG is to explicate, develop, and...

Identity building as a pathway to children and young people’s wellbeing in schools

For decades now, there has been a looming child and youth mental health crisis in many developed nations globally (WHO, 2020). Nations have varied in policy responses to the issue, but what many...

The corridors of silence

Our vernacular is somewhat noisy with idioms of silence: deafening silences; as silent as the grave; a wall of silence; suffering in silence. Other idioms offer implicit references to silence,...

The free school meal voucher scheme & children’s access to food during the Covid-19 crisis

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

With schools closed in the UK in response to the Covid-19 crisis, children who would normally receive free school meals were at an elevated risk of food insecurity. However, the voucher scheme...

We need an evidence-based expert approach to the post-pandemic recovery of young people

In December 2020, the Westminster government promised to set up an expert group to consider solutions to the huge variability of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on pupils’ educational...

Children have a right to be involved in decisions about their future education, health and wellbeing

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, children across the world have experienced significant changes to their lives. Save the Children (2020, p. 4) report that an estimated 99 per cent of...