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 ...

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 ...

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).

John White is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Education at UCL Institute of Education, where he worked from 1965 until 2000 after teaching in secondary schools and colleges. During the ...

Dr Charlotte Haines Lyon is an Associate Professor in Education at York St John University. With a background in Youth Work her research is underpinned by democratic and ...

Dr Matthew Green is a Lecturer in Children, Young People and Education at York St John University. His research focuses on children and young people's gender embodiment in secondary school ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BERA’s Research Ethics Case Studies series, edited by Jodie Pennacchia, presents illustrative case studies designed to complement BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fourth edition ...

This extensively revised, expanded and updated fourth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research is designed to support educational researchers in conducting research to the highest ...