69 episodes

The British Educational Research Association (BERA) is the leading authority on educational research in the UK, supporting and representing the community of scholars, practitioners and everyone engaged in and with educational research both nationally and internationally.BERA is a membership association and learned society committed to advancing research quality, building research capacity and fostering research engagement. We aim to inform the development of policy and practice by promoting the best quality evidence produced by educational research.This podcast consists of research informed content on key educational issues. This podcast gives our members a voice to promote their research and features educational leaders and experts speaking about hot topic issues in Education. Our aim is to produce and promote episodes that attract policymakers, parents, teachers, educational leaders, members of school communities, politicians, and anyone who is interested in education today.

BERA UK Podcast BERA UK

    • Education

The British Educational Research Association (BERA) is the leading authority on educational research in the UK, supporting and representing the community of scholars, practitioners and everyone engaged in and with educational research both nationally and internationally.BERA is a membership association and learned society committed to advancing research quality, building research capacity and fostering research engagement. We aim to inform the development of policy and practice by promoting the best quality evidence produced by educational research.This podcast consists of research informed content on key educational issues. This podcast gives our members a voice to promote their research and features educational leaders and experts speaking about hot topic issues in Education. Our aim is to produce and promote episodes that attract policymakers, parents, teachers, educational leaders, members of school communities, politicians, and anyone who is interested in education today.

    Innovative Research Methodologies: Corpus assisted discourse analysis

    Innovative Research Methodologies: Corpus assisted discourse analysis

    This podcast is the sixth and final instalment in the series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being undertaken by researchers in education. In this episode, Dr Bukola Oyinloye, co-convenor of the RME SIG, is in conversation with Dr Kathryn Spicksley. They discuss corpus assisted discourse analysis, an approach which uses computer programmes to explore patterns of grammar and vocabulary in selected text or corpora. They discuss its main element, discourse analysis, including its more critical type, and compare with other ways of interrogating text such as thematic analysis. Dr Spicksley recommends Hansun Zhang Waring’s book ‘Discourse Analysis: The Questions Discourse Analysts Ask and How They Answer Them’ as a helpful introduction to discourse analysis, as well as Norman Fairclough (Discourse and social change) and James Paul Gee (An introduction to discourse analysis) for useful frameworks on discourse analysis. In her article, ‘The very best generation of teachers ever’: teachers in post-2010 ministerial speeches, Dr Spicksley applies corpus assisted discourse analysis to government speeches in the UK.

    • 45 min
    Innovative Research Methodologies: The learning schools approach

    Innovative Research Methodologies: The learning schools approach

    This podcast is the fifth in a series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being undertaken by researchers in education. In this episode, Dr Bukola Oyinloye, co-convenor of the RME SIG is in conversation with Dr Rebecca Jesson and Dr Mei Kuin Lai. They discuss the learning schools approach, an approach where researchers and practitioners work in partnership to co-design rigorous research and development to sustainably solve urgent and shared problems of practice.
    They discuss the main tenets of the approach, their work with schools and communities in the Pacific Islands, how the approach counters the global learning crisis, and some challenges of the approach. You may read more about the learning schools approach in their book, Research-practice Partnerships for School Improvement: The Learning Schools Model. You may also read more about their work with indigenous communities in the Pacific Islands here.

    • 43 min
    Innovative Research Methodologies: Posthumanist Methodologies

    Innovative Research Methodologies: Posthumanist Methodologies

    This podcast is the fourth in a series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being undertaken by researchers in education. In this episode, Dr Bukola Oyinloye, co-convenor of the RME SIG is in conversation with Louise Haxwell and Dr Julie Ovington. They discuss posthumanist methodologies, a way of transcending anthropocentric ways of doing research to consider how humans exist in relation to and in connection with non-humans, materialities, and human feelings, emotions, etc. They reflect on the possibilities of using these methodologies, including how it is an approach which does not leave the researcher unchanged, and the challenges they’ve encountered. They also offer some suggestions for those who seek to explore the approach in their work. Julie and Louise are part of the Bag Ladies collective, and have collectively written on posthumanist methodologies, including a chapter in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Research Methods. The Bag Ladies share their thoughts-feelings-doings on their website here.
    Julie and Louise would also like to give special thanks to Katie Strom, Nikki Fairchild and Carol Taylor, amongst many others, for continuously informing their thinking.

    • 39 min
    Innovative Research Methodologies: Solicited diaries

    Innovative Research Methodologies: Solicited diaries

    This podcast is the first in a series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being undertaken by researchers in education. In this episode, Dr Bukola Oyinloye, co-convenor of the RME SIG is in conversation with Dr Martin Johnson, Senior researcher at Cambridge University Press & Assessment. They speak about his use of the solicited diary method within the context of a multi-method study on teacher wellbeing during COVID-19. They discuss what solicited diaries are, their linkages with teacher wellbeing, how they were used in the study, as well as some of their challenges. To read more about the study, please click here. 

    • 46 min
    Innovative Research Methodologies: Participatory Ethnographic Evaluation Research (PERP)

    Innovative Research Methodologies: Participatory Ethnographic Evaluation Research (PERP)

    This podcast is the third in a series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being undertaken by researchers in education. In this episode, Dr Bukola Oyinloye, co-convenor of the RME SIG is in conversation with Claire Hedges and Tom Power, Co-Investigator and Principal Investigator respectively, of the Mobile Learning for Empowerment of Marginalised Mathematics Educators research project in Bangladesh, also known as 3M Power. 3M Power project is a large-scale EdTech Hub-funded research project on technology enhanced teacher education for marginalised mathematics educators. They discuss an innovative approach to the evaluation of the project, Participatory Ethnographic Evaluation Research or PEER. They highlight the approach’s similarities with and difference from ethnography, what makes it participatory, and the opportunities and challenges the approach offers.

    • 48 min
    Innovative Research Methodologies: Punk ethnography

    Innovative Research Methodologies: Punk ethnography

    This podcast is the second in a series commissioned by the Research Methodology in Education Special Interest Group to showcase the variety of methodologies and methods being undertaken by researchers in education. In this episode, Dr Bukola Oyinloye, co-convenor of the RME SIG is in conversation with Dr Elke Van dermijnsbrugge, Lecturer-Researcher in International Teacher Education at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. They speak about punk ethnography, including what it is not, its philosophical assumptions and anarchist principles, the methods that can be employed, and how it can be analysed. They also discuss its challenges and Dr Elke provides some suggestions for those who might be interested in adopting the approach. Dr Elke writes and curates the Punk Ethnography website. You may also read more about her work on punk ethnography in the book 'Punk Pedagogies in Practice: Disruptions and Connections'.

    • 43 min

Top Podcasts In Education

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Mel Robbins
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
Am I Doing It Wrong?
HuffPost
TED Talks Daily
TED
Do The Work
Do The Work
UNBIASED
Jordan Is My Lawyer