England’s modern foreign language (MFL) teaching and learning has suffered from a ‘double whammy’ of both dwindling pupil uptake and an ongoing teacher shortage. Pupil exam entries ...

The importance of young people receiving positive menstrual education is well documented. Olsson et al. (2024), for example, report that it can improve confidence in navigating menstruation ...

Knowledge brokering – facilitating research into practice and policy – might be one of the most useful skills you’ve never heard of. During my career as a mathematics teacher, then ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a significant impact in technology-rich environments. In teaching, a profession rife with burnout and staffing shortages (DfE, 2025), AI has been ...

As Head of PSHCE at a large state secondary school, Dan’s work is centred on developing thoughtful, sustainable and research-informed educational practice that supports both teachers ...

Food education in Northern Ireland (NI) stands at a moment of change. The TransformED NI strategy identifies tackling educational disadvantage as a reform priority (Department of Education, ...

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 BERA Mathematics Education SIG aims to bring together researchers interested in all aspects of mathematics learning and teaching, both inside and outside of formal educational settings. We embrace ...

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) rapidly reshapes educational research and classroom practice, questions of methodological integrity and ethical responsibility have become both urgent and unavoidable.

The Inclusive Education SIG provides a forum for critical discussion about all aspects of Inclusive education. Our concerns are with the substantive, methodological and ethical aspects of research ...

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 ...

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, ...