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Decisions of a new researcher: To be accepted or rejected

I’m standing very still. My toes are curled over a stone ledge, a gaping dark chasm below me. It is decision time. But which way to go? I had been contemplating this decision for some months....

The potential of mobilising interdisciplinary peer-to-peer mentoring between PhD students: Initial reflections from a pilot study

There is growing interest in using coaching and mentoring strategies to improve the learning and development experiences of postgraduate research students. Previous studies from England and...

Summer 2023

Research Intelligence issue 155: Practitioner research: Development, collaboration & dissemination

The case of a higher education journal: Assessment and evaluation in higher education

I’ve edited Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, or AEHE for short, for a decade now. Before that I edited Studies in Higher Education for a similar period, and before that Higher...

Innovative Research Methodologies: Posthumanist Methodologies

This podcast is the fourth in a series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being undertaken by...

Journal peer review: Higher Education Research & Development

As one of the co-editors of Higher Education Research & Development, I had the privilege to meet early career researchers from BERA in October 2022 via Zoom. After I introduced the journal Higher...

Journal peer review: What applied linguistics journal editors look for

As a co-editor-in-chief for the journal System (long name An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics), I was delighted to have the opportunity to speak about my...

Innovative Research Methodologies: Participatory Ethnographic Evaluation Research (PEER).

This podcast is the third in a series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being undertaken by...

Innovative Research Methodologies: Punk Ethnography

This podcast is the second in a series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being undertaken by...

Research reflexivity during Covid-19

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

In this blog post, I reflect on my experience of research reflexivity when conducting a PhD study during the Covid-19 outbreak. This piece is a result of presenting at the Early Career Researcher...

Making decisions in researcher positionality

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

I was privileged to attend and present at the October event in the BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network Symposium Series 2022. As an ECR, the opportunity to explore the dilemmas I faced when...

‘Who are you?’ Moving from reflexivity to self-reflexivity in educational research with marginalised groups

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

In this blog post, I consider my critical engagement with my positionality beyond reflexivity to self-reflexivity. When conducting my literature search for my thesis, I noticed that...