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 ...

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 spaces, ...

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 participatory methodologies.

The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.

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 sector of post-compulsory education and lifelong learning is a wide and diverse one, covering areas such as the study of 14-19 education and training, further and higher education, adult education ...

Supporting practitioners to enhance experiences for children and young people in a range of school, community and family settings. The Physical Education Sport Pedagogy (PESP) SIG provides a forum for ...

This SIG offers a space for researchers, policy makers and practitioners located in a wide variety of settings, to discuss and interact on matters of interest pertinent to creativity in education.

The Alternative Education SIG takes the broadest approach to ‘alternative’ that we can. We are interested in all forms of out of school educational provision and with ‘alternative’ approaches within ...

The Sexualities & Gender SIG provides a forum to critically engage with how gender and sexuality research matters in the inter-disciplinary field of education and how this research can inform policy, ...