British Educational Research Association


The British Educational Research Association 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

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