Elina Stylianou is a student development coach at the University of Leeds, supporting students at the Faculty of Social Sciences to thrive academically. She has a PhD in TESOL – she designed ...

Xuechun Huang is a postgraduate researcher at the School of Education, University of Leeds. She was the leader of the website management team and was on the media team at the BAAL Vocab ...

Are you an early career researcher (ECR) who is hesitant about organising an academic conference? Are you a senior academic who has few occasions to collaborate with ECRs for such a purpose?

This blog post reports on current and ongoing research into the identity of classroom music teachers and, in particular, whether the teachers think of themselves more as musicians who ...

Chris Dalladay, now retired, has been the lead tutor for the secondary music initial teacher training programmes at the University of East London along with the Assessment Only Route to ...

Higher education is currently experiencing contrasting trends. First, academic performance prior to university entry is declining: the PISA 2022 results highlight a ‘decade-long ...

Kristof De Witte is a full professor in Education Economics and Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, Belgium, and he holds the chair in ‘Effectiveness ...

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 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 ...

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.