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Plenary Session – Reading the REF

Prof David James Cardiff University, United Kingdom In the opening conference plenary David James presented an overview of education submissions in REF 2021 and highlighted key points about...

Keynote Lecture – Presidential Address – ½¿É«µ¼º½: Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going?

Professor Vivienne Marie Baumfield University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the British Educational Research Association, this...

Can we really trust socioeconomic measures used in PISA tests?

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducts the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study of 15-year-old students’ academic achievement. In order...

School exclusions: What does research tell us about the scale of the problem and challenges?

School exclusion is a hot issue within education and there is growing concern about the numbers of exclusions and off-rolling in schools in England. In particular, a number of studies have drawn...

Philly Iglehart

Philly Iglehart is a second-year doctoral student at Plymouth Marjon University. She is interested in place-based challenges affecting school improvement, particularly in rural and coastal areas;...

Pallavi Banerjee

Pallavi Banerjee is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge. Her research addresses inequalities in educational outcomes.

Nurullah Eryilmaz

Nurullah Eryilmaz is pursuing his PhD in Education at the University of Bath, and he is also a research assistant at the REAL Centre at the University of Cambridge. He holds a master’s degree...

Envisioning a gold standard: Understanding higher education institutions’ outlook for race equality policies, practices & future initiatives

Race & Education: ½¿É«µ¼º½ Small Grants Fund research reports

Supported by ½¿É«µ¼º½'s Small Grants Fund, this study considered race, racism and racial equality within UK higher education institutions (HEIs). Although there has been significant progress in...

½¿É«µ¼º½ Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

Framing research: Theories, concepts and reflexivity in educational research

½¿É«µ¼º½ ECR Network Symposium Series 2022: Framing research: Theories, concepts and reflexivity in educational research – March

½¿É«µ¼º½ Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

I am very grateful to Yan Zhu (½¿É«µ¼º½ Early Career Researcher [ECR] Regional Rep for Wales) for inviting me to act as a discussant for the March event in the ½¿É«µ¼º½ ECR Network Symposium Series 2022...

Why is it that we can predict every year which types of students will have been excluded from school?

½¿É«µ¼º½ Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

While the numbers may change, the trends are largely the same: young people from certain minority ethnic groups, those who receive free school meals, those who are care-experienced or who are...

Framing research: Critical Discourse Studies and early childhood educational research

½¿É«µ¼º½ Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

During the process of undertaking doctoral research, it is important to acknowledge the research journey and emphasise your rationale for conducting that specific research project. This relates to...