The British Educational Research Assocation (BERA) holds its annual conference this week at the University of Sussex. SJIE colleagues are well represented in the conference programme with Mel Nind and Kalwant Bhopal both participating in keynote symposia on Tuesday September 3rd. Mel Nind will be discussing her research as part of the ESRC’s National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) programme; her paper is co-written with Rose Wiles and Andrew Bengry-Howell from the University of Southampton and is titled: Risk, creativity and ethics: dimensions of innovation in qualitative social science research methods. This paper is part of the ‘Research Methdology in Education’ keynote symposium.
Kalwant Bhopal is chairing the keynote symposium on ‘Race, ethnicity and education’ and is also giving a paper, co-authored with Uvanney Maylor from the University of Bedfordshire, titled: Educational inequalities: ‘race’, class and gender. Kalwant is also presenting three other papers at the conference covering different aspects of her research on race, education and marginalised groups.
Kiki Messiou is presenting her paper in a symposium on September 4th focusing on ‘Using students’ voices to promote inclusion through teacher professional development in schools’. Her paper is co-written with colleagues from the Universities of Madrid and the Algarve and is based on her international project work funded by the European Commission. The paper is titled: Developing the rationale for the project and a way of working with schools.
