2026 ½¿É«µ¼º½ Educational Research Book of the Year
This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.
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Funding Announced: ½¿É«µ¼º½ Small Grants Fund 2026/2027: Professional development for a flourishing early years sector
Announcing the Recipients of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Small Grants Fund 2026 The British Educational Research Association (½¿É«µ¼º½) is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2026/2027 Small Grants Fund, which...
How can we best make use of free school meals as an imperfect measure of disadvantage? Using data in the English National Pupil Database
Free school meals as a measure of disadvantage Whether a child is recorded as receiving free school meals (FSM) is an influential indicator of disadvantage in England. Our previous blog...
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The stickiness of children’s voice and agency in research
Increasingly, ‘voice’, though not an uncontested term, is understood as manifest through, for instance, gesture, gaze, body language, art, and other embodied forms (Murris, 2013; Murray,...
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Inside the manosphere and childhood trauma
The Netflix-produced Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere aims to understand the extreme, misogynist fringes of the manosphere – an umbrella term for online masculinist subcultures – and the...
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Could socially just teaching align with trauma-informed practice to reduce anxiety for and achievement in mathematics?
Cognition and learning outcomes are known to be affected by childhood adversity (Lund et al., 2020) with trauma from sexual abuse categorised at the highest threat level and therefore linked to...
Continue reading blog postWhy schools matter for parents from refugee backgrounds who have children with special educational needs
The importance of school as an effective means to quickly settle children with refugee and asylum-seeking status is widely agreed (McIntyre & Neuhaus, 2021). However, what is less cited is why...
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What do children expect from their parents? A child-centred analysis
Debates about ‘good parenting’ have long been shaped by adult-centric theories. Baumrind’s (1991) typology of parenting styles and Bowlby and colleagues’ (1992) attachment theories remain...
Continue reading blog postThe forgotten voices: The minority report
This blog post focuses on what the professionals working in pupil referral units (PRU) and alternative provision (AP) think helps support students with their mental health post-Covid-19. If we...
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Celebrating best practice and evidencing impact: The SLA School Librarian of the Year Awards
Early in my career, I had an amazing mentor – a senior librarian who had been working in school libraries for 26 years. She supported young people with everything, from reader development to...
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Looking forward: Positioning the school library within the wider educational landscape
The school library is undergoing a profound and necessary evolution. The words of Ranganathan (1892–1972, considered to be the ‘father of library science’) remain true to this day: ‘The...
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