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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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A new study by EERA Network 22 maps ten years of international cooperation in higher education research at ECER — and finds a landscape shaped as much by language and geography as by shared academic interest.

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Physical education has long been criticised for being narrow and exclusionary — but what happens when researchers and teachers from across Europe come together to question it? A new EERA-funded seminar series is doing just that, creating a space for cross-border dialogue to critically examine PE curricula and co-create more inclusive approaches to the subject.

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