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 ...

This issue, guest edited by Joyce I-Hui Chen, Debbie Bogard and Christina Donovan, illuminates the transformative power of research in further education (FE) from all four nations of the UK, ...

Elsewhere in this issue: Two of BERA’s journals – British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) and Curriculum Journal – announce their annual Editors’ Choice Awards, recognising papers published in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following their first set of workshops with over 100 teachers, teacher educators and young people, the team behind BERA’s latest research commission are delighted to share a summary of findings in ...

Dr Stephanie Thomson is a lecturer in educational policy at the University of Aberdeen. Her research interests focus on inequality and education policy.

This report, one of the three research projects to receive the British Curriculum Forum’s Curriculum Investigation Grant for 2018–2019, documents a research partnership between Banff Academy and the ...

Initial analysis of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) suggests that mobile phone bans might help with reducing ...

Mark Leather is professor (emeritus) of education at Plymouth Marjon University. He is an academic and practitioner dedicated to advancing knowledge and practice in outdoor pedagogic theory and ...

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 ...

I am currently PhD Programme Director, at the School of Education, University of Bristol. I teach and supervise across Undergraduate, Masters, EdD and PhD portfolios. Before I completed a PhD in ...