This special issue arose from critical dialogue about injustice in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector in England between diverse people engaged in practice, research ...

A crisis exists relating to the status of qualifications and pay in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce in England (Nutbrown, 2021) marked by both low pay and morale. In ...

We know that more teachers are desperately needed in England, and that some subject specialisms experience particularly ...

The BERA Educational Research Book of the Year Award recognises and celebrates excellence in educational research publishing.

Rosa Schling works for On The Record. We write as activists, advocates and historians about the ongoing impact of strike ...

Both in England and internationally (for example Australia and Ireland), there has been renewed policy emphasis on supporting early career teachers (ECTs) to develop teaching strategies that ...

Geoff Lewis is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Warwick. His PhD focused on understanding the fine-grained factors that shape the work of ...

Fostering students’ sense of belonging in higher education (HE) is widely recognised as key to academic achievement, retention and wellbeing (Ajjawi et al., 2025; Blake et al., 2022).

With the announcement of the 2025/2026 Small Grants Fund recipients, BERA is proud to share that we have now awarded over £500,000 in research funding since 2020. These investments have ...

As of April 2025, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported that 17,954 children have been killed in Gaza since 7 ...

Following a retroductive logic, I applied Gramsci’s (1971) theory of intellectuals – which examines academia’s role in sustaining societal hegemony (p. 12) – to evaluate how effectively this framework ...

The Children and Families Act 2014 in England provided a major transformation to the system for identifying special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Ten years on, the National Audit ...