Some moments in history do not announce themselves with disruption or alarm. They slip quietly into everyday life and only later reveal how deeply they have reshaped us. The growing presence ...

This BERA Blog Special Issue responds to a critical moment in the world’s history marked by a series of interconnected and overlapping global crises. The hallmarks of this are armed conflicts ...

Achieving 15 per cent refugee enrolment in higher education by 2030 remains a significant global challenge. Currently, only 9 per cent of refugees access higher education, far below the 42 ...

In low-resource and displacement contexts, digital learning is widely promoted as a way to expand access to education, including by UNHCR and UNESCO. Yet many learners remain excluded ...

A stalemate is how we understand knowledge Education faces a philosophical stalemate. On one side is an ‘objective obsession’ with standardised metrics. For example, English education ...

Across a collection of three related studies (Mili & Towers, 2024; Chen, 2025; Coburn et al., 2025) which took place in England between 2018 and 2025 and involved 85 participants, we argue ...

Clare was a primary school teacher for more than 20 years before starting her PhD in Lancaster University. Her research interests lie in education policy, international student identity ...

Imran Mir is a Campus Head and Programme Lead at Apex College, Leicester. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), a Fellow of the Society for Education and Training ...

Stephanie Akinwoya is a doctoral student at The Open University UK. She is an educator and researcher, whose work is centred on transformative education in marginalised and ...

Martha Akello is a communication specialist currently working with the Refugee Law Project, Makerere University. She works on initiatives that amplify the voices of refugees and host ...

Across the higher education (HE) sector, academic institutions understand the importance of inclusion, belonging and diversity (see for example OECD and UNESCO). Yet one dimension which is ...

Sandra Nanyunja is a researcher and PhD fellow under the Wits-Edinburgh Sustainable African Futures (WESAF) programme based in Uganda. She also works as a practitioner with the Refugee ...