Dr Nicole Brown

In April 2024, I was asked to deliver a keynote for an international webinar organised by CripLab. CripLab is a research laboratory on crip posthumanities in Santiago, Chile, whose members seek to map the modes of discursive and material production of the norm of dis/ability in Chilean universities that develop […]

Handbags: I am inviting you to take in part in my research project. Information, contact details and consent form available from here.

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

In this guest post Dr Helen Ross reflects on the exam production line of our current school system.

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.

This is about my contribution to the SEDA conference in November 2016, which was about aspects of the Secondary Teacher Education Programme.

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

This is my contribution to the Postgraduate Research Festival, the PGFes2016, at the University of Kent.

The classroom is a place where learning happens and should be encouraged, therefore classroom management relates to the strategies a teacher can use to organise students' learning. According to Garrett (2015) classroom management can be considered in five categories: behavioural management and discipline, the layout of a classroom, rules and routines, the relevance of relationships and the importance of instruction. Good classroom management is proactive and about the students' learning.

Download some resources for a plagiarism workshop from here.

Alison Clark and Peter Moss developed their own way of carrying out research with children – the Mosaic approach. The idea behind the Mosaic approach is that researchers collect data through a wide range of means. These are what Clark and Moss consider "individual tiles". It is then the researcher's task to put these individual pieces together to form one big picture, just like many little tiles are formed into one big mosaic.

When planning for a practice-based enquiry or small-scale study you will most often be confronted with the choice between an action research or case study approach. Here is a simplified exploration to get you started.

Consider some key elements when writing an academic essay: structure, language, use of sources.

This is a post to formally accept the nomination for the Liebster Award 2018.