LGBTQIA+ young people face significant discrimination in the UK, reporting higher levels of school bullying and poorer mental health outcomes than their heterosexual and cisgender peers (Wilson ...

Catherine Atkinson-Ross is a senior lecturer at the Manchester Institute of Education, with a background in Sociology and Gender Studies. Her research and teaching are concerned with issues ...

Tee McCaldin is a former high school teacher and a senior lecturer at the Manchester Institute of Education. They are interested in inclusive education, with a research focus that spans ...

Social media use among young adults is nearly universal worldwide. For instance, 95 per cent of teenagers (13–17) in the United States are on social platforms, with about a third ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Supporting practitioners to enhance experiences for children and young people in a range of school, community and family settings. The Physical Education Sport Pedagogy (PESP) SIG provides a forum for ...

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.

The BERA Mathematics Education SIG aims to bring together researchers interested in all aspects of mathematics learning and teaching, both inside and outside of formal educational settings. We embrace ...