The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award is the Digital Empowerment in Language Teaching (DELTEA) project, a partnership between University of ...

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 a supportive and collaborative community of practitioner researchers working in a diverse range of contexts. It brings together those with a special interest in all those (closely related) ...

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 Alternative Education SIG takes the broadest approach to ‘alternative’ that we can. We are interested in all forms of out of school educational provision and with ‘alternative’ approaches within ...

This SIG offers a space for researchers, policy makers and practitioners located in a wide variety of settings, to discuss and interact on matters of interest pertinent to creativity in education.

A meeting place for the critical exploration of educational leadership – research, policy and practice - in the pursuit of social justice. This SIG is concerned with the governance and leadership of ...

The Sexualities & Gender SIG provides a forum to critically engage with how gender and sexuality research matters in the inter-disciplinary field of education and how this research can inform policy, ...

All things higher education research, policy, and practice. The transition from elite to mass higher education systems is a significant global development that forms the broader context for ...

The sector of post-compulsory education and lifelong learning is a wide and diverse one, covering areas such as the study of 14-19 education and training, further and higher education, adult education ...

The Philosophy of Education SIG supports the development and dissemination of philosophical research in education and its interdisciplinary links. Educational research is an inherently ...