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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Race, Ethnicity and Education Special Interest Group challenges systems of oppression that demean and threaten to erase educators and learners of Global South heritage, through discussion and ...
This SIG is interested in the relationship between research and policy in education This SIG provides a space for BERA members interested in the relationship between research and policy in education.
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 ...
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 ...