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).

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Wendyann Richardson is a lecturer in Business Management and the Deputy Lead for Transnational Education (Quality Assurance) at Coventry University. She brings more than five years ...

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 ...

Aims-based school curricula This blog post is about an aims-based curriculum and its place in the English school system. It may seem odd to talk about ‘an aims-based curriculum’. Few ...

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 ...

Placing selfhood construction at the centre of social justice provides a useful lens to view emerging ethical debates around Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) and beyond.

Vignette: The unexpected It was near the end of the workshop, and the materials table – once a neat arrangement of brushes, papers and pigments – had become a glorious mess. Most of ...