About BECERA
BECERA is an independent self-funding organisation run by the Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC) which has dedicated itself to improving services for young children and families in the UK for more than 25 years.
BECERA is for those early childhood practitioners, researchers and practitioner researchers working in the British Isles who want a space to meet, enquire and discuss issues relevant to their work with young children and families.
It aims to stimulate, support, create and disseminate rigorous, grounded and conceptual knowledge and its applications to our early childhood services. It does this through an annual conference where research is presented and subjected to peer-review.
BECERA is particularly interested in practitioner research and exploring paradigms and methodologies which impact directly on services.
It is interested in how knowledge is constructed, who listens and who speaks and in capturing the voices of all, including parents and children.
BECERA provides a unique British forum to bring together research, practice and policy and strengthen the early childhood research community in the vital contribution it makes to British practice and policy.
The 15th annual BECERA Conference will be held on 17th February 2025. For more information please sign up to BECERA Newsletter.