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2026 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Educational Research Book of the Year

Closes 22 Jul 2026

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

How can we best make use of free school meals as an imperfect measure of disadvantage? Using data in the English National Pupil Database

Free school meals as a measure of disadvantage Whether a child is recorded as receiving free school meals (FSM) is an influential indicator of disadvantage in England. Our previous blog...

2026 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Equality in Education Award 

The ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Equality in Education Award recognises an individual whose work has sought to address wider issues of inequality and discrimination in education.  The nominee’s work will not only...

Worth the wait? Sustainable leadership and SEND reform

The English education system is at a point of national transformation, the likes of which have not been seen for over a decade. With February’s long-awaited publication of the Schools White...

Episode 4: AuDHD: Living at the Intersection of Autism and ADHD

Rethinking ADHD: Voices from Research, Practice and Lived Experience is a podcast mini-series produced for the British Education Research Association (ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ), bringing together researchers,...

Episode 5: Reframing Neurodiversity: Research, Friendship and the Social World of ADHD

Rethinking ADHD: Voices from Research, Practice and Lived Experience is a podcast mini-series produced for the British Education Research Association (ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ), bringing together researchers,...

Episode 6: Masking in Women and Girls with ADHD

Rethinking ADHD: Voices from Research, Practice and Lived Experience is a podcast mini-series produced for the British Education Research Association (ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ), bringing together researchers,...

Toxic masculinity and the Netflix series Adolescence

The popularity of Adolescence ‘Toxic masculinity’ is a familiar though vague and highly contentious concept. This matters for educators and for education given the ongoing and widely...

Episode 3 (Part 1): More Than Inclusion: Reimagining Secondary Schools Through Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice

Rethinking ADHD: Voices from Research, Practice and Lived Experience is a podcast mini-series produced for the British Education Research Association (ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ), bringing together researchers,...

Episode 3 (Part 2): More Than Inclusion: Reimagining Secondary Schools Through Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice

Rethinking ADHD: Voices from Research, Practice and Lived Experience is a podcast mini-series produced for the British Education Research Association (ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ), bringing together researchers,...

Academics and the UK social media ban: Lessons from Australia

Looking on from the other side of the world, the UK’s proposed social media ban already seems to be progressing along very familiar lines. As education researchers now dealing with the aftermath...

Knowledge is never neutral: Hegelian reflections on contemporary education

A stalemate is how we understand knowledge Education faces a philosophical stalemate. On one side is an ‘objective obsession’ with standardised metrics. For example, English education polices...