Dr Nicole Brown

This post links to my contribution to The SRA Blog, in which I write about the purpose and practice of reflexivity and positionality

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.

Accounting for the interdisciplinary nature of the field, this book has been written to be a concise primer into Embodied Inquiry for research students, scholars and practitioners alike.

In this short video, I am answering 5 interview questions on the occasion of the Disability History Month. 

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

This paper outlines two distinct staff-student collaborations and how such a partnership may innovate teaching practices.

Find here the instructions of how to join the Ableism in Academia event via the connected UCL moodle page.

To make sense of my participants' experiences, I am creating an art installation based on the raw data I receive in my research work.

This is the link to the PDF version of the article "Preventing plagiarism and fostering academic identity: a practical approach" (Brown and Janssen, 2017).

Games are often used as motivators in lessons, but games shall not become the main focus. We are teachers and learning needs to be central to lessons.

Artefacts can be used to get students interested in a lesson, but artefacts can do more than just represent an engaging hook. In this post I am discussing the use of artefacts in lessons based on questions that I have been asked in teacher training sessions.

Methodology and methods are only part of the story of choosing a research framework. The way you go about collecting and interpreting data is strongly influenced by how you interpret knowledge and truth. This is about the epistemology. In simple terms, epistemology is the theory of knowledge and deals with how knowledge is gathered and from which sources. In research terms your view of the world and of knowledge strongly influences your interpretation of data and therefore your philosophical standpoint should be made clear from the beginning.

Often as teachers we find it difficult to cater for all of our students' needs, but we should not forget that the needs may also be strengths. Here is a great visual that demonstrates the benefits of bilingualism, even if catering for English as Additional Language learners may sometimes feel an added burden.

Bringing up a child bilingually is a conscious decision, but there are issues and challenges that bilingual families encounter that are not mentioned in any of those handbooks or parent guides. Knowing about these might have had led to fewer disappointments.