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Giving a Voice to Mothers

My work on the Parenting chapter of the ½¿É«µ¼º½/ TACTYC Review of the Early Years Literature triggered some questions that I felt compelled to further investigate. The literature that I accessed...

The Missing Link? Brain and Body in early learning and development – what the research review does and doesn’t tell us

The early years education field has always emphasised the holistic nature of early development and learning despite the continued prevalence of separate subject- or development-based domains...

Early years as a career? Policy, practice and professionalism 2003-2017

In March 2017, the long-awaited Early Years Workforce Strategy for England was published by the DfE. It aims to put in place a number of measures to address some of the difficulties currently...

Opportunity – writer/editor wanted for our Research Commission reports

During 2015/6 ½¿É«µ¼º½ funded three Research Commissions to identify and explore topics of concern for the discipline and its research communities. The Research Commissions were asked to: identify...

Postgraduate Symposium Series – South Coast: Practical Issues in Conducting Educational Research

  South Coast Symposium: Dr. Barbara Crossouard, University of Sussex     This event is now fully booked. To be placed on the waiting list, please email events@bera.ac.uk. ...

Exploring Recruitment, Retention and Region: the new three ‘R’s’ challenging schools in England

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. It has been widely argued that teacher retention and...

Researching our Early Years Curriculum: Policy, Practice and Professionalism

          A BCF Event for schools, colleges, universities and early years settings Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email...

Gender-related violence and young people: Critical responses in research and practice

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. 'Sexual and gendered violence is a continuing...

Opportunity – Director of the Centre for Education Improvement Science

The UCL Institute of Education is launching a flagship research centre – the Centre for Education Improvement Science – to lead path-breaking research on educational system improvement. It is...

Writing for academic journals

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. This event is aimed at independent researchers who...

Writing a world-leading (four star) publication

Highlights from the first 1,000 ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog posts

The idea that research could be described as ‘4*’ came from the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF). Four-star research is 'world-leading in terms of originality, significance and...

The Matthew effect at election time

The Matthew effect is an expression that has been coined to summarise the parable of the talents found in Matthew’s gospel (Matthew 25:14-30), which suggests that the rich get richer while the...