British Educational Research Association

The British Educational Research Association (BERA) is a member-led charity to encourage educational research and its application. It was founded in 1974.

BERA hold conferences, publishing research, and paying for research.^[1] The association is open to researchers from any discipline.^[1] 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."^[2]

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.^[when?]

Publications and awards

Publications

Research Intelligence
British Educational Research Journal
British Journal of Educational Technology
Review of Education
Research Guidelines

They have irregularly published material, and discontinued material that can be purchased from some book companies.^[3]

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

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "British Educational Research Association". Oxford Dictionary of Education. Answers.com. http://www.answers.com/topic/british-educational-research-association. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
↑ "British Educational Research Journal". JournalSeek. http://journalseek.net/cgi-bin/journalseek/journalsearch.cgi?field=issn&query=0141-1926. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
↑ "Occasional papers". British Educational Research Association. Archived from the original on 1 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110101174702/http://www.bera.ac.uk/publications/occasional-papers/. Retrieved 11 January 2011.

External links

BERA Home page
Catalogue of the BERA archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

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[Oxford-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "British Educational Research Association". Oxford Dictionary of Education. Answers.com. http://www.answers.com/topic/british-educational-research-association. Retrieved 11 January 2011.

[JournalSeek-2] "British Educational Research Journal". JournalSeek. http://journalseek.net/cgi-bin/journalseek/journalsearch.cgi?field=issn&query=0141-1926. Retrieved 11 January 2011.

[BERA-3] "Occasional papers". British Educational Research Association. Archived from the original on 1 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110101174702/http://www.bera.ac.uk/publications/occasional-papers/. Retrieved 11 January 2011.

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