Sam Dexter is undertaking his PhD at UCL’s Centre for Research in Autism and Education and is exploring how special schools are using careers guidance to help prepare their autistic young ...

Education policy debates often centre on the immediate: what can be achieved within a political term, or what’s feasible in response to a current crisis. But the future of education will ...

The idea that education should be or become an evidence-based profession has been around for several decades and is still gaining in popularity in many countries around the world. The idea ...

Teacher shortages, political instability, emerging global crises and the aftermath of the pandemic have created significant ...

Dr Morwenna Bennallick is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Westminster. She completed her PhD research in 2019 at Royal Holloway, University of London. Morwenna’s ...

We write as activists, advocates and historians about the ongoing impact of strike action taken by nursery workers 40 years ago and the way activism can nourish the profession. Despite ...

What could learning spaces in prison be like? This question has guided our reflective research process, prompting us to reflect critically on existing practice and to create an emerging ...

In this ongoing blog series, presenters and prize winners from BERA Conference 2025 will share insights from the research they present at the event. The series gives presenters the opportunity ...

Government policy for early childhood education and care (ECEC) in England often focuses on group-based settings such as nurseries (Penn, 2024). However, much childcare takes place within ...

In times of crisis, silence is never neutral, it is complicit. As we bear witness to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, what’s unfolding is not only a humanitarian catastrophe but also an assault ...

Divorce and nonmarital childbearing have become increasingly common, leading to more children growing up with a father who lives elsewhere (Sheffield & Winship, 2020). This shift raises ...

A crisis exists relating to the status of qualifications and pay in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce in England (Nutbrown, 2021) marked by both low pay and morale. In ...