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In this personal reflection, ERC bursary winner Mutmainna shares how attending ERC and ECER in Belgrade transformed her understanding of whole self education.

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This blog, the first in the EERA-funded seminar series on Physical Education Curriculum Learning across European Borders, explores PE curricula across the UK's four home nations — Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Universities in crisis: courses closing, staff redundancies, and equity progress that remains painfully slow. In this post, Richard Budd — keynote speaker at the Emerging Researchers Conference 2026 in Tampere — examines the structural contradictions driving the UK higher education crisis, who holds power in the system, and why reform is so hard to achieve despite the evidence pointing the way.

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Resilience is often praised as a professional virtue, but what happens when it becomes something the job quietly depends on? Research with teacher educators in Ireland and the UK reveals how universities have built working conditions that rely on staff absorbing excessive pressures.

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