The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all ...

BERA’s ethics and guidance documents are used by educational researchers and those active in many other disciplines. Our publications include the following documents. The fifth edition of BERA’s ...

Elsewhere in this issue: Two of BERA’s journals – British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) and Curriculum Journal – announce their annual Editors’ Choice Awards, recognising papers published in the ...

This issue, guest edited by Joyce I-Hui Chen, Debbie Bogard and Christina Donovan, illuminates the transformative power of research in further education (FE) from all four nations of the UK, ...

This report, one of the three research projects to receive the British Curriculum Forum’s Curriculum Investigation Grant for 2018–2019, documents a research partnership between Banff Academy and the ...

Dr Kathryn Spicksley is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on teacher professional identity, with a specific interest in its relationship to ...

In this report, BERA’s Expert Panel on Assessment argues that school league tables and SATs should be abolished in favour of a new, fairer and more sustainable accountability system. It sets out ...

The special section in this issue looks beyond the dominant Eurocentric and UK-based perspectives on outdoor learning – the subject of extensive and growing research across the world – to make a ...

The PGCE route into teaching has the lowest retention rate (Allen et al., 2016). Many students embarking on a PGCE are warned about the challenges of the course, as the following blog extract ...

Iqra Din is an undergraduate student on the education studies BSc at the School of Education, University of Bristol. She remains inspired by the work of Tariq Modood, and as such her interests include ...

Dr Joyce I-Hui Chen is Quality Enhancement Manager and Centre Manager for Initial Teacher Education. She has been working in different educational sectors for more than 20 years in Taiwan and in the ...

Michael Agyemang Adarkwah is a postdoctoral researcher at Smart Learning Institute, Beijing Normal University. He obtained his PhD in Education Leadership and Management from Southwest University. He ...