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REF 2029: Invitation for contributions to the BERA Blog

Closes 1 May 2025

Demystifying and exploring the Research Excellence Framework 2029

The Curriculum Journal: Call for Editorial Board members

This call is now closed. The Curriculum Journal (CJ) is seeking expressions of interest from educational researchers to join its editorial board. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to...

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...

Transforming curriculum planning with Sankey diagrams

Have you ever wondered how to gain deeper insights into the complexities of curriculum planning and to support data-driven decision-making? As an educator and researcher at ETH Zurich, I’ve...

Research Intelligence Special Issue: BERA at 50

A special issue celebrating BERA's 50th anniversary

Raising Critical Confidence as a root to knowledge of self

hooks (1994, p. 34) advises us to ‘renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions and society so the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our...

Neoliberal metrics and a curriculum for competence

Neoliberalism – the free market ideology of individual liberty and choice, combined with limited government interference in a competitive marketplace – has been a growing international trend...

School health and wellbeing, and national education system reform in Wales

The Curriculum for Wales prioritises young people’s health and wellbeing, with a strategic aim for all children in Wales to be healthy and confident individuals. Following national roll-out,...

The Curriculum Journal: Call for Associate Editors

This call has now closed. The Curriculum Journal (CJ), published by the British Educational Research Association (BERA), specialises in publishing original contributions to the study of...

Developing biliteracy through a traditional, cross-linguistic pedagogical approach

Cross-linguistic pedagogy, which involves using multiple languages in classrooms to foster literacy development by providing a ‘bridge between languages,’ has recently gained significant...

Reframing health and wellbeing in schools: As pedagogy and as teacher identity

Since the publication of WHO guidance in 1998, policymakers around the world have sought to include health promotion within education, with schools in many countries now taking a Health Promoting...

The BERA–Sage Handbook of Research-Informed Education Practice and Policy

Out May 2025 – pre-order now from Sage RRP £295.00 The BERA-Sage Handbook of Research-Informed Education Practice and Policy, 2 Vol. offers an in-depth exploration of the ways in which...