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 […]

This post links to my contribution to the Lex Academic Blog, in which I write about how to keep a research journal.

This post offers some recommendations on what to do if teaching involves larger audiences rather than smaller groups.

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

This is a presentation based on my article Scope and Continuum of Participatory Research. This video was recorded for the MPE/MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium 2021.

This article presents disabled academics' experiences and collective understandings of ableism as constructed through normalisation and able-bodiedness.

This article presents an original engagement with research into emotions in the PhD to ask ‘Where’s the validation?’ by using emotion work as a theoretical foundation.

This is a contribution to Times Higher Education from February 2018 about invisible disabilities in the higher education sector.

Getting started with educational research is a short introduction to the research process and offers help with questions and methods.

This review is about the book "Doing research in education". A fabulous resource and introduction to doing research in education.

This is a review of Harry Fletcher-Wood's book on how checklists can make all aspects of teaching more effective.

Many teacher training sessions and professional development courses nowadays link to or culminate in the compilation of portfolios. Portfolios are evidences and resources that are gathered and annotated systematically to provide an overview of the teachers' achievements, career events and areas for development. The process of gathering information for the portfolios is an opportunity to take a step back from everyday work to reposition yourself and reconsider your values, your development and your learning. Here is some help for developing portfolios.

Being a mentor for trainee teachers is rewarding and challenging at the same time. Ultimately, the smiles on a trainee teacher's face after successful lessons is definitely worth every battle against all odds.