BERA Bites, issue 12: Education and the environment
Today, in 2025, as an Earthly community, we face the ongoing triple planetary crises of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. Across the UK, and in many other...
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The ‘Dear Researcher’ workshop on participatory research spaces at the BERA 2024 conference: Insights and practical examples of researching with youth co-researchers
The ‘Dear Researcher’ workshop that I facilitated at the 2024 BERA Conference, had developed through years of research working alongside children and young people as co-researchers. The...
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Autoethnography and stakeholder engagement
In this blog post I report on my Winston Churchill Foundation research fellowship study on the adultification of Black girls in state care in 2023 (Ikomi, 2024). Adultification can occur in a...
Continue reading blog post10 years of the BERA Blog
This series celebrates one decade of the BERA Blog, as an important and growing space to explore current and varied issues and questions of concern to the education community. To mark this...
Editorial: Revisiting the Children’s Plan: Towards a new manifesto for tackling early years inequality
The new Labour government has made a commitment to support the early years sector as well as launching a curriculum review. This presents us with an opportunity to revisit Labour’s 2007...
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Revisiting the Children’s Plan: Towards a new manifesto for tackling early years inequality
The new Labour government has made a commitment to support the early years sector, as well as launching a curriculum review. This presents us with an opportunity to revisit Labour’s 2007...
Children’s attainment in the early years in a post-pandemic world
The new Labour government has pledged to reform the education system. With reports highlighting the pandemic’s negative impact on children’s development, it is crucial to assess post-pandemic...
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Putting oral language at the heart of early years education
In her TES article in July 2023, the now UK Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, emphasised oral language skills in her commitment to improving early years education. This is a...
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(Re)focusing on high-quality early childhood education and care
Over the past 25 years, the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector in England has undergone significant transformations. As the evidence of its positive impact on children’s social and...
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Equity by design: A shared vision to reduce school exclusion in England
School exclusion and social exclusion are complex, multi-dimensional and intertwining processes. The disproportionate impact that school exclusion has on children with special educational needs...
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Special educational needs policy requires research infrastructure
Over the past 25 years, there have been successive policy changes to funding, categorisation and implementation of special educational needs (SEN) provision in England. Yet there is limited...
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The importance of social security to children’s lives: Lessons from a mixed methods study of the two-child limit and the benefit cap
In recent years, stories of schools providing for children’s basic needs have become common. We hear that nearly one-in-five teachers has personally washed a school uniform; one-in-four has...
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