08.30 - 19.00

08.45 - 09.45

SIG Convenors and Co-Convenors Meeting

09.30 - 09.40

Early Career Researcher Welcome
Professor Mary James, University of Cambridge

09.40 - 09.55

Finding your Voice in Educational Research
Professor David James, Cardiff University

09.55 - 11.10

Early Career Researcher Conference - Parallel Session 1

11.15 - 12.30

Early Career Researcher Conference - Parallel Session 2

12.30 - 13.00

Early Career Researcher Conference Lunch

13.00 - 13.15 

Main Conference Opening Remarks

Professor Mary James, University of Cambridge

Professor Clive Agnew, Vice-President for Teaching, Learning and Students, University of Manchester

13.15 - 14.15

'BERJ award for 2011 sponsored by Taylor and Francis

Routledge Keynote Lecture Sponsored by Taylor and Francis
Professor Stephen Heppell, Bournemouth University

14.30 - 16.00

Main Conference - Parallel Session 1 

Education - an anatomy of the discipline
Professor John Furlong, Oxford University

16.00 - 16.30

Tea/Coffee/Exhibition/Poster Viewing

16.30 - 18.00

Keynote Symposia

18.00 - 18.30

Welcome Reception for New Members, Early Career Researchers and International Delegates
/Poster Viewing

18.30 - 19.30

Main Conference Welcome Reception
Sponsored by

 

Rest of evening free for own plans

08.00 - 17.45

Registration Open                                           

09.00 - 10.30

09.00 - 10.30

Main Conference - Parallel Session 2
 

AARE Symposium
Cultural studies in education: new approaches to research

Learning critical literacies outside the white man's classroom
Dr Anna Hickey-Moody
Gender and Cultural Studies SOPHI, The University of Sydney 

Place pedagogy and decolonisation in cultural studies education
Professor Baden Offord
School of Arts and Social Sciences and Southern Cross University

Disturbing thinking about sexuality and gender in educational research
Dr Mary Lou Rasmussen
Faculty of Education, Monash University

Growing Queer: theorising television, pedagogy and homosexuality
Dr Daniel Marshall
Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University

10.30 - 11.00

Tea/Coffee/Exhibition/Poster Viewing

11.00 - 12.30

Main Conference - Parallel Session 3      

12.30 - 13.30

Lunch/Exhibition/Poster Viewing
SIG Forum Meetings

13.30 - 15.00

Main Conference Parallel Session 4

NZARE Symposium
Transforming Schools through Restorative Practices

Wendy Drewery and Maria Kecskemeti, University of Waikato
Liz Gordon, Network Research, Christchurch
Gillean McCluskey, University of Edinburgh

15.00 - 15.15

Short Break

15.15 - 16.15

Keynote Lecture
Professor Jean Clandinin, Director of the Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development (CRTED)

16.15 - 16.45

Tea/Coffee/Exhibition/Poster Viewing

16.45 - 18.15

16.45 - 18.15

Main Conference Parallel Session 5


AERA Symposium
Privatization in Tertiary Education:  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Guilbert Hentschke - Cooper Chair Of Education, University of Southern California
Kevin Kinser - Professor of Education, State University of New York at Albany
Simon Marginson - Professor of Education, Melbourne University
William G. Tierney - University Professor, University of Southern California

19.30 - 23.00

Conference Drinks Reception and Dinner 
(Ticket Holders Only)
Venue: Palace Hotel, Oxford Street, Manchester, M60 7HA

07.30 - 16.30                 

Registration Open                                                                                          

09.00 - 10.30

Main Conference - Parallel Session 6

Student-Centered Inquiry AS Curriculum: A Model for Helping Pre-service Teachers become Student Centered in their Curricular and Pedagogical Decisions
Professor Kim Oliver, Department of Human Performance, Dance and Recreation, New Mexico State University, USA

10.30 - 11.00

Tea/Coffee/Exhibition/Poster Viewing

11.00 - 12.00

11.00 - 12.00

Keynote Lecture
Jon Coles, Former Director General for Education Standards at the Department for Education


Workshop - 'Becoming a BERA Abstract Reviewer'
This practical workshop will be of interest to colleagues who are interested in reviewing abstracts for future BERA Conferences.

Places are limited to 20 on a first come, first served basis. If you would like to book a place please select this at the time of registering for the conference.

12.00 - 13.15

Lunch/Exhibition/Poster Viewing

12.00 - 13.15 

BERA AGM 

13.15 

Prize Giving
Dissertation Award Winner
BERA/SAGE Practitioner Award Winners
Poster Prizes

Keynote Lecture
Professor Zeus Leonardo, University of California, Berkeley

 15.00 - 16.30

Panel Session
BERA-UCET Symposium 'Prospects for Education Research in Education
Departments in Higher Education Institutions in the UK'
Alis Oancea and Geoff Whitty