The British Educational Research Association (BERA) is a member-led charity to encourage educational research and its application for the improvement of practice and public benefit.
It is an association promoting a researching culture within the academic field, and shaping guidance on policy and practice within the field.
They provide a forum for academic discussion through holding conferences, disseminating material, publishing current research, and designating awards for research.
The association is open to researchers from any discipline.
Their publications have become a well known fixture for educational research, and provide an interdisciplinary approach that includes: "''reports of experiments and surveys, discussions of conceptual and methodological issues and of underlying assumptions in educational research, accounts of research in progress, and book reviews.''"
It is governed by an elected council with its president serving a two-year term. It is run on a daily basis by a permanent office staff, headed by Nick Johnson.
Publications and awards
Publications
*''Research Intelligence''
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British Educational Research Journal
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British Journal of Educational Technology
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*''Review of Education''
*''Research Guidelines''
Among their publications they also have irregularly published material, and discontinued material that can be purchased from some book companies.
Awards
* Meeting of Minds Fellowships
* BERA Doctoral Thesis Award
* BERA Masters Dissertation Award
* BERA Brian Simon Fellowship
* BERA John Nisbet Fellowship
* BCF/ BERA/ Routledge Curriculum Journal Prize
* BJET Fellowship
* BERJ Paper of the Year
* Curriculum Journal Paper of the Year
References
External links
BERA Home pageCatalogue of the BERA archives
held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
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