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Since 2014 BERA has awarded the John Nisbet Fellowship to recipients who are deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to educational research over their career. Named in honour of our ...

The popularity of Adolescence ‘Toxic masculinity’ is a familiar though vague and highly contentious concept. This matters for educators and for education given the ongoing and ...

The English education system is at a point of national transformation, the likes of which have not been seen for over a decade. With February’s long-awaited publication of the Schools ...

The Inclusive Education SIG provides a forum for critical discussion about all aspects of Inclusive education. Our concerns are with the substantive, methodological and ethical aspects of research ...

As a researcher working on an environmental education project in England, I have experienced both rewards and challenges. Coming from a Chilean educational and cultural background, ...

This BERA Blog Special Issue responds to a critical moment in the world’s history marked by a series of interconnected and overlapping global crises. The hallmarks of this are armed conflicts ...

Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) uses ideas, methods, techniques, and processes from the arts to help understand and improve education. ABER practitioners research and communicate using various ...

The BERA Equality in Education Award recognises an individual whose work has sought to address wider issues of inequality and discrimination in education. The nominee’s work will not only have ...

Research Intelligence reaches 3,000 members across 60 countries and is distributed to nearly all higher education institutions in the UK, as well as schools and colleges. The magazine operates a guest ...

Looking on from the other side of the world, the UK’s proposed social media ban already seems to be progressing along very familiar lines. As education researchers now dealing with the ...

This SIG is a supportive and collaborative community of practitioner researchers working in a diverse range of contexts. It brings together those with a special interest in all those (closely related) ...