Dr Nicole Brown

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

This is an excerpt of "Just one more time...", a fictionalised account of real-life experiences during the first year of the COVID19 pandemic.

This is an extract from a guest post Dr Jennifer Leigh and I wrote for the SAGE MethodSpace to outline some of the principles of Embodied Inquiry. 

Deeply embedded in personal experiences, this perceptive book provides examples for universities to develop inclusive practices, accessible working and learning conditions and a less ableist environment.

This post is a link to a recording from a presentation for AdvanceHE on the topic of how to challenge unconscious bias.

This is an example of a prize-winning research impact poster.

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

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.

From the context of UK higher education this article explores ableism in academia to stimulate a debate and raise awareness of those disabled and ill academics , whose voices are not heard.

This post shows the Korean educational context and how I have discovered that you can be half-way around the world, and yet nothing changes.

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

This review is about "Study skills for students with dyslexia". This is a good resource for teachers helping prepare students for University.

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.

Teaching empathy is crucial if students are to understand empathy as a concept in order to be able to demonstrate historical empathy, for example. Here is a useful resource.