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Learning about Race Equality in Education from Scotland

17 Jul 2025 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

This event supports BERA’s ambitions of addressing racial inequity within the Association and the wider research community. It is important to showcase and learn from the best practices of...

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...

Documenting and dismantling language ideologies in education

10 years of the BERA Blog

Over the past few years, I have carried out extensive fieldwork in secondary schools in England, where my focus has been the beliefs about spoken language on display in classrooms, corridors and...

Spring 2025

Research Intelligence issue 162: International comparative education

Beyond ‘navel gazing’: Autoethnography as a catalyst for change

In April and July of 2023, the BERA Social Justice special interest group (SIG) held an event titled ‘Beyond “Navel-gazing”: Autoethnography as a catalyst for change’. This event brought...

Narrating self, narrating us: Autoethnography in Black women’s storytelling

Telling stories has been part of my upbringing since birth. My Jamaican immigrant grandparents used stories to shape my identity, build character, and share their histories – stories of arriving...

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...

Beyond navel-gazing: Why is there a lack of Black male teachers in the United Kingdom?

‘Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.’―Paulo Freire In this blog post, I will share how autoethnography has shaped my doctoral research on...

Editorial: Beyond ‘navel gazing’: Autoethnography as a catalyst for change

Autoethnography holds significant relevance as a methodology in social justice work within educational research and practice (Boylorn, 2006; Ellis, 2002; Skousen, 2022). It is defined as a...

10 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...

BERA journals announce Editors’ Choice Awards for 2024

Two of BERA’s journals, British Educational Research Journal and Curriculum Journal , have announced their annual Editors’ Choice Awards, recognising papers published in their 2024 volumes....

50@50 – A portrait of 50 years of educational research through 50 studies

As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, BERA has collected together a set of 50 landmark studies that have had a significant impact on educational policy, educational practice, research...