BERA UK Podcast

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.

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Innovative Research Methodologies: Participatory Ethnographic Evaluation Research (PERP)

October 02, 2023 • BERA UK • Season 6 • Episode 3

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.