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The British Educational Research Association (BERA) is the leading authority on educational research in the UK, supporting and representing the community of scholars, practitioners and everyone...
BERA Announces the 2025 BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award Winner
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award is the Digital Empowerment in Language Teaching (DELTEA) project, a partnership between University...
The BERA Blog: Highlights of 2025
Snow-dusted salutations and tinsel-tinged tidings to all our readers, authors, curators and guest editors around the globe. In this, the BERA Blog’s tenth anniversary year, I look back over the...
Winter 2025/26
Research Intelligence issue 165: Integrating inclusiveness and accessibility in education: Emerging technologies and learning in people with disabilities
BERA Conference 2026
Welcome to the BERA Annual Conference 2026 It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the BERA Annual Conference 2026, returning to the University of Manchester. We are delighted to bring...
Professional learning for teacher educators: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports
This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of four research projects funded by BERA’s 2024/25 Small Grants Fund (SGF). The funding aimed to support research focussing on...
Upcoming events
Hot air? Talking STEAM Education Research Seminar Series
We are delighted to launch a new monthly online reading group on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) education. This series is designed to bring together researchers,...
SIG Meet & Discuss: Digital Education
Our upcoming BERA Digital Education SIG meeting will be an engaging and collaborative online session, bringing together members to reflect, reconnect, and co-create ideas for the year ahead....
BERA Skill Builder Series: Standardisation for Abstract Reviewers
This online session is aimed at those who: are new to peer review BERA abstracts would like to peer review for BERA in future are more experienced but would like the reassurance of a...
SIG Meet & Discuss: Sexualities and Gender
This Sexualities & Gender SIG provides a space to critically engage with how gender and sexuality research matters in the inter-disciplinary field of education and how this research can inform...
BERA Teacher Network
The BERA Teacher Network is an inclusive community of educators from early years, primary, and secondary schools and further, adult and vocational education in the UK. The network serves as a...
Early Career Researcher Network
The BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network aims to offer support to those who are in the process of completing their masters or doctorate in education, as well as those who have completed...
Neurodivergent Researchers Network
The BERA Neurodivergent Researchers Network is a new initiative launched by the British Educational Research Association (BERA). The network is intended to provide a platform for neurodivergent...
Event Videos
This page features videos and presentations from BERA events
The latest from the BERA Blog
The BERA Blog: Highlights of 2025
Snow-dusted salutations and tinsel-tinged tidings to all our readers, authors, curators and guest editors around the globe. In this, the BERA Blog’s tenth anniversary year, I look back over the...
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‘People feel embarrassed or intimidated to use the toilets’: Teachers, parents and pupils’ perceptions of school toilets
School toilets, globally, have been sites of bullying, vandalism and embarrassment, and, more recently, have been at the centre of equalities debates (see for example Lundblad et al., 2010). In...
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Authentic leadership for unprecedented times in higher education
We are navigating through unprecedented times characterised by uncertainty and restlessness within the UK higher education (HE) environment. Over the past year, numerous institutions have faced...
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Opportunity to support children’s reading for pleasure and wellbeing: Are primary libraries undervalued and underused?
Research by The Open University Reading for Pleasure consortia shows the advantages of reading for pleasure and the subsequent benefits for children, but is there evidence that children are...
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