Dr Nicole Brown

Call for participants! “Ripped off in Academia: Costs and Consequences of Unethical Practices in Research” Background In informal settings, academics of all career stages talk about being ripped off in higher education: they experience or witness unethical practices in research. Unethical practices described include but are not limited to: …academics […]

In this post I share my contribution to the SAGE research methods online resources about doing fieldwork remotely.

This is the recording of the book launch event to celebrate the publication of "Making the most of your research journal".

This video about the benefits and challenges of participatory research builds on my original work presented at the PASAR conference in 2017.

This poem about full ethical approval is the outcome of poetic inquiry and analysis within Embodied Inquiry from my research with academics.

This is an example of an ethnographic poem, the output of poetic inquiry and analysis within Embodied Inquiry from my research with academics.

This post is about ice breakers, and how we can plan for starting a session effectively without distracting from our contents.

This is a guest post on the Advance HE website published after I had delivered a successful workshop at the HEA Annual Conference demonstrating how to use LEGO reflections in higher education.

This is a post I wrote in July 2018 about how neurodiverse, chronically ill and disabled academics manage their academic life. This was published as a guest post on the Chronically Academic blog.

The chapter offers reflections on how imagination can be nurtured in the practice of teacher education.

In my contribution to the SRHE Annual Conference, I talked about academics' active body work and identity work to maintain their academic identity.

In this article about flipped learning I argue that flipped learning should only be used as one teaching method amongst many others.

Producing reflections can be a creative process if we allow for more creative methods, such as Lego models.

It may look simple to deliver the hook but in reality planning for the hook should not be underestimated, after all you need something very catching to get your students' attention so they become interested in your lesson.

When observing experienced teachers in lessons or when looking at their lesson plans, the lesson planning process appears easy. However, once you start planning your first lesson you will soon realise that there are many aspects that you must take into consideration. Here are some recommendations to get you started.