Dr Nicole Brown

QUEST (Qualitative Expertise at Southampton) in collaboration with the National Centre for Research Methods and the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership organised a webinar on Metaphor and Method. I was one of three keynote speakers presenting “Objects as metaphors to account for embodiment”.   Access the video at the NCRM […]

In this video Dr Helen Kara and Dr Nicole Brown discuss the role of writing in the life and career of researchers.

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.

I was invited to contribute to the SAGE MethodSpace to talk about how I use creative methods, and why I use creative methods, given the population and the nature of my research.

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

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

If students are to take responsibility for their learning, then why are they not also in charge of their assessments? This question forms the basis for this paper that is co-written between two students and one member of staff.

Strategies for learning names at the beginning of an academic year, and reasons for why learning names is important.

Watch my presentation and download my sketchnote summary about STEP from the UCL Teaching and Learning conference.

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

Plagiarism is a socio-cultural issue. This is about academic integrity and the reputation of an institution and the degree that is awarded. I would not want to hold an academic degree that is devalued in such way that many people were able to cheat their way through it. This is a reflective piece of writing on plagiarism and what it feels like for an academic.

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.

Writing entries for a reflective journal is often a daunting aspect of teacher training, as we are not used to writing diaries. Here are some thoughts on how to get started with writing reflections.

This is a brief outline of what Tripp considers as critical incidents.