Dr Nicole Brown

I was invited to contribute to the Cambridge Centre for International Research podcast series to talk about the experience of disabled people in higher education and how to improve the situation.

This post is a link to a recording from an event held on the 25th November 2020 via the University of Birmingham, where I was asked to discuss disability experiences before and after Covid19 Lockdown.

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 article seeks to explore the nature and depth of students’ engagement by providing an example from a teacher education programme.

This is my reshaping higher education contribution to the post-strike Big Meeting organised by Reclaim the University in June 2018.

This article is an example of student-staff collaboration within the community of practice of trainee teachers.

The paper reports on the lived experience of fibromyalgia, which used identity boxes and metaphorical representation to offer a holistic view.

This is my contribution to the CSHE Research Festival 2017, which was held in October 2017 at the University of Kent.

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

This post provides some guidance on how to organise your lesson to flip successfully, as to flip cannot be done thoughtlessly.

Games are often used as motivators in lessons, but games shall not become the main focus. We are teachers and learning needs to be central to lessons.

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

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

Bringing up a child bilingually is a conscious decision, but there are issues and challenges that bilingual families encounter that are not mentioned in any of those handbooks or parent guides. Knowing about these might have had led to fewer disappointments.