Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy SIG Convenor Vacancy

Closes 27 Aug 2025

The BERA Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy SIG has an opening for a convenor. SIG AIM: To encourage and support research and other scholarly activity in the inter-related areas of curriculum,...

BERA Educational Research Book of the Year

Closes 22 Jul 2025

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

Call for proposals: BERA Blog special issue on refugee and asylum-seeking learners

The BERA Blog is delighted to invite proposals from teams of guest editors and authors for a BERA Blog special issue on learners from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds. One proposal will be...

Invisible in plain sight: Similarities of race-denial in two European education contexts

Schools in England are now moving towards a new national curriculum, but what might this mean for anti-racism initiatives in education (Kebede et al., 2025)? The Curriculum Review sets out its...

Teaching on the edge: Teacher mental health and workload pressures in Wales

The landscape of teaching in Wales has changed significantly post-Covid-19, with educators reporting increased workload pressures, rising Additional Learning Needs demands (Conn & Hutt, 2020),...

Should I stay or should I go? International perspectives on workload intensification and teacher wellbeing

This special issue of the BERA Blog introduces research-informed articles addressing teachers’ work and wellbeing across seven national/regional education systems: Scotland; England; Wales;...

Teacher workload in Scotland: Challenges to sustainability

This blog post examines influences on teacher wellbeing and professional sustainability in Scotland’s education system. The Teacher Workload Research Project (Hulme et al., 2024), funded by...

The Seven ‘C’s of Why: Youth workers’ questions about digital practice

In this blog post I reflect on a collaborative research project that explored youth workers’ knowledge, skills and attitudes towards digital practice. Youth work in the UK is a profession guided...

A new national curriculum: Better learning principles and practices

The new UK Labour government, elected in 2024, almost immediately commissioned a Curriculum and Assessment Review, with the intention of developing a broader, cutting-edge curriculum in England...

Curriculum in a Changing World: Podcast Series

We’re excited to announce the release of a new podcast series inspired by the BERA 50th anniversary publication Curriculum in a Changing World: 50 think pieces on education, policy, practice,...

Challenges for climate change and sustainability education in England: Reflections on teachers’ practices and priorities for policymakers

Climate Change and Sustainability Education (CCSE), including school-based education, is widely understood as a vital response to the triple environmental crises of climate change, biodiversity...

The politics of handwriting: What is the purpose of prescriptive handwriting lessons in 2024?

How often do you handwrite and for what purpose? Perhaps you’ll write a birthday card, notes or a shopping list. No matter the context, is there a need for handwriting to be perfect? In English...