In their work on neighbourhood policing, Wilson and Kelling (1982) discuss the ‘Broken Windows’ theory. They outlined that visible sign of neglect, such as unrepaired windows, signal ...

This SIG is interested in the relationship between research and policy in education This SIG provides a space for BERA members interested in the relationship between research and policy in education.

As master’s students in the field of educational leadership we were ready to navigate the field in pursuit of our development as researchers and future educational leaders. Our ...

Introduction What is an effective school leadership in a system that is predetermined by inequality and structural limitations? Educational reform in Pakistan occurs in a diverse, but ...

The English in Education SIG is a forum for researchers to investigate what is a broad and complex area of knowledge: our starting point is the school subject of English, but we embrace many aspects ...

The Sexualities & Gender SIG provides a forum to critically engage with how gender and sexuality research matters in the inter-disciplinary field of education and how this research can inform policy, ...

Gillian is a teacher educator and teacher education researcher at Liverpool John Moores University, where she is also Deputy Director of the Liverpool Institute for Educational Research ...

The fact that student teachers commonly perceive educational research and theory to be far removed from practice is well documented in initial teacher education (ITE) research. Teacher ...

What does it mean to ‘understand’? Despite its centrality to most, if not all educational endeavours, what is meant by ‘understanding’ is not clear and is highly contested (Ross, ...

How can we make educational research meaningful for teachers working in busy classrooms? At Nottingham Trent University (NTU), we explored this question through a close-to-practice ...