Dr Nicole Brown

This is a recording of my talk "Research ethics in a changing social sciences landscape" from the UCL Research Ethics Conference "Frontiers in Best Practice in Research Ethics" in September 2022.

In this article, I draw on three case studies to explore the relationship between participatory and creative research methods.

It is with great excitement and pride that I share a list of scheduled ableism events. Celebrating the launch of my two edited books, find here events about Ableism in Academia.

The National Association of Disabled Staff Networks (NADSN) has produced a COVID-19 post-lockdown position paper. In this paper, NADSN’s observations about the lived experiences of disabled people during COVID-19 are discussed alongside considerations of the changing workplace and relevant policies and practices. The paper concludes with a series of recommendations concerning disabled staff.

In this post, I explain what ableism in the curriculum is, and what we as teachers can do to counter ableism in the curriculum.

This is my presentation related to a collaborative project at UCL to develop portfolios to become meaningful, external-facing assessments.

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

I am often asked how much reading is enough? In this post I outline what you should consider in order to decide when it is enough.

The 3 min thesis is a competition, but it helps focussing thoughts and concentrating on what is important. Here is my "3min thesis".

This is a brief simulation of what cognitive dysfunction and brain fog feel like.

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.

Nowadays more and more emphasis is placed upon the impact of research. In many cases research students are even required to create a research poster as part of their thesis and enquiry submissions. However, how do you create a research poster?

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

This is a brief description of Kolb's reflective model.