BERA UK Podcast

Maarten Koeners studies and teaches integrative physiology at the University of Exeter. He integrates insights in the physiology of play and playful learning with his academic practice. Recently he established The Playful University Club , an exciting initiative funded by the Educational Incubator, to form global connections on the creation of holistic pedagogic practices for both students and edu...

Dr Achala Gupta is a lecturer at Southampton Education School, University of Southampton. Her research focuses on investigating educational issues sociologically. Achala’s current interests include education delivery systems (formal and ‘shadow’) and schooling practices in Asia, and students’ aspirations and transition into higher education in Europe. She has published research on the heterogeneit...

In this episode multiple and multidimensional transitions in education are reflected on through a post-lockdown lens. Jonathan Glazzard interviews Beth Hannah about developing a framework for compassionate transition while Michelle Jayman discusses with Claire Fox the unique challenges for children transitioning to secondary school during a global pandemic and some of the lessons learned to inform...

Daniel Vanello is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Warwick where he is pursuing the project “Shaping Our Moral Identity” (2020-2023). Vanello was awarded his PhD at the University of Warwick (2017) where he researched the role of the emotions in our learning moral value. He was previously Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Gen...

Gihan Ismail is an Associate Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford Brookes University and a teaching assistant in Education at the University of Bath. She is also a Ph. D. candidate at the Department of Education and her study explores the experiences of international doctoral students in UK universities, using a framework that draws on the theories of Critical Pedagogy and Critical Race and Capabilitie...

Dr Lorna Arnott is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Early Years in the School of Education, University of Strathclyde. Lorna's main area of interest is in children's early play experiences, particularly in relation to technologies, social and creative play. She also has a keen interest in research methodologies, with a specialist focus on consulting with children and methods derived fro...

Dr Lynda Dunlop is a Senior Lecturer in Science Education and a member of the University of York Science Education Group (UYSEG). Her research focuses primarily on the philosophical and political aspects of science education, and on youth perspectives and experiences of environmental interventions. This research has been funded by, amongst others, the Education Endowment Foundation, the Gatsby Fou...

This podcast explores music production as a form of youth work and how the benefits have been quantified and reported. Ian McGimpsey speaks to Frances Howard (Nottingham Trent University) and Simon Glenister (Noise Solution) about how music shapes and structures youth – both constructing and characterising the experiences of diverse groups of young people – and go on to question how these impacts...

On this week's episode  Nick Johnston the Chief Executive  introduces some of the best moments from season 3 of the podcast. This episode contains clips of all the interviewees throughout the season.

Yinka Olusoga is a historian of childhood and education in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Herr research focuses on the discursive construction of children and childhood in the educational policy, political debate, art and popular culture, in the present and in the past. Kate Cowan is an early years specialist researching children’s play and communication from a multimodal...

Natalia Kucirkova is Professor of Early Childhood Education and Development at the University of Stavanger, Norway and Professor of Reading and Children’s Development at The Open University, UK. Natalia’s work is concerned with social justice in children’s literacy and use of technologies. She is the founder of the International Collective of Children’s Digital Books that connects research and des...

Dr Sue Fletcher-Watson is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh. Today she discusses her work in neurodiversity in the classroom and her work with the LEANS project with Nick Johnson (Chief Executive of BERA) Find Sues work with the LEANS Project at http://dart.ed.ac.uk/research/leans

On this week's episode of the BERA podcast Nick Johnston (Chief Executive of BERA) interviews Dr. Emily Marchant from Swansea University. Emily's research focuses on primary school-aged children and examines the relationship between epidemiological factors and lifestyle behaviours with educational outcomes, using data linkage. She also evaluates school-based interventions and has previou...

In this week's episode Nick Johnson (Chief Executive of BERA) interviews Jake Anders. Jake is Associate Professor of Quantitative Social Science and his research focuses on the causes and consequences of educational inequality and the evaluation of policies and programmes aimed at reducing it.  He is also Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEP...

In this weeks episode BERA President Dominic Wyse interviews the John Nisbet Fellowship recipient Neil Mercer. Neil is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, where he is also Director of Oracy Cambridge: the Centre for Effective Spoken Communication and a Life Fellow of the college Hughes Hall. Before he joined Cambridge, he was Professor of Language and Communications and...

Joanne Hughes is Director of the Centre for Shared Education at Queen’s University Belfast. She has led more than 20 research projects on these themes and has been awarded research grants from the EU, ESRC, British Council, British Academy, Nuffield, UNICEF, Atlantic Philanthropies, and a range of other sources. Her current research projects explore longitudinally the effect of inter-group contact...

This week on the BERA podcast we have Adam Peter Lang. Adam is a former London secondary school teacher and school leader. He is now at University College, London, working as a PhD research scholar. He is also an education leadership consultant engaged with a number of projects. He writes and comments in the media on education. For this episode Adam talks with Nick Johnson BERA's Chief Execut...

This week BERA Chief Executive Nick Johnson speaks to Ratha Perumal. Ratha is a Senior Lecturer engaged in research and teaching in Education and Multilingualism at the School of Education and Communities at the University of East London. Ratha is also is a PhD student at King's College London researching 'The Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Degree Awarding Gap in Higher Education'...

Presented by Dr. Achala Gupta - University of Southampton  and Ms Gihan Ismail - University of Bath This podcast follows the BERA-CERA academic writing from an early career researcher perspective and responds to some of the key questions on academic publishing from postgraduate students and early career researchers. The podcast unpacks issues around motivation(s) for publishing that go beyond the...

In this weeks podcast third year PhD student from the Open University, Bukola Oyinloye, interviews Dr Jie Gao from University College London. This interview discusses the proper application of the theoretical and conceptual framework of a mix methods approach. Reflecting on their own individual research they discuss both how it can be used and its limitations. 

This episode of the BERA Podcast is the fourth in a series of podcasts focusing on Alternative Research Methods in Higher Education. Sharon Smith engages with Dr Sin Wang Chong to discuss how conversation as a form of educational research enables an engagement with parents of disabled children, facilitating an exploration of power and subjectivity, while implementing a revolutionary post structura...

This episode of the BERA Podcast is the third in a series of podcasts focusing on Alternative Research Methods in Higher Education. Shifting disciplines for a PhD can be daunting, often prompting a quest for new methods. This might be necessary for the project, but what is left behind in such a move?  In this episode, Dr. Sin Wang Chong interviews Sophia Kier-Byfield, a PhD student at Loughborough...

This episode of the BERA Podcast is part of a series of podcasts focusing on Alternative Research Methods in Higher Education. PhD candidates are expected to find research methods that fit. What if none of the conventional methods available seem to support your values and purposes or worse, force you to compromise? In this episode, Dr Sin Wang Chong interviews Elke Van dermijnsbrugge about alterna...

This episode of the BERA Podcast is part of a series of podcasts focusing on Alternative Research Methods in Higher Education. In this episode, Dr Dina Zoe Belluigi speaks to Dr Sin Wang Chong about the ways in which visual and creative arts methods productively unsettle the dominant gaze and modes of representation of research on higher education. She retrospectively traces the detours and diverg...

In this Episode of the BERA Podcast Nick Johnson, BERA CEO interviews Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum about the updated version of her bestselling book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race, now in its 20th anniversary edition. A thought-leader in higher education, Beverley was the 2013 recipient of the Carnegie Academic Leadership Award and the...