Educational Research: the State of the Discipline

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The symposium presents the outcomes of two research projects sponsored by BERA to support advocacy for educational research. We focus on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the recruitment and retention of educational researchers in universities working in conditions of increasing precarity. The projects form part of the ‘State of the Discipline’ initiative examining how the next generation of researchers can be encouraged to continue to grow the size, influence, and impact of research in education. Insight into the current state of education as an academic discipline in the higher education systems of the four devolved nations of the United Kingdom facilitates analysis of the intersection of global, national and local factors of interest to the international educational research community.

Sub Unit

• International Aligned Organizations / British Educational Research Association - BERA

Chair

• Vivienne Baumfield, University of Exeter

Papers

• Education Is in a State: Exploration of In/equalities Shown in Statistical Data of Academic Staffing in Higher Education - Dina Z. Belluigi, Queen's University - Belfast; Joanne O'Keeffe, Queen's University - Belfast; Jason Arday, University of Glasgow

• The State of the Discipline: Findings From a Survey of Education Researchers - Jess Brown, University of Warwick; Emma Smith, The University of Warwick; Tom Perry, University of Warwick; Rebecca Morris, University of Warwick

Discussant

• Dominic Wyse, IOE, University College London