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Ripped off in Academia: Costs and Consequences of Unethical Practices in Research

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 […]

How to keep a research journal

This post links to my contribution to the Lex Academic Blog, in which I write about how to keep a research journal.
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Assessments: Letting students decide on their assessments

This is a link to a video for UCL Digital Assessment that explains how in my module we are letting students decide on how they want to be assessed.

5 tips for writing articles for publication

With increased competition publishing articles becomes more and more difficult. Here are my 5 tips for writing articles for publication.
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Research ethics in a changing social sciences landscape

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.
Cover slide showing title "Imagine! Different in academia" and contact details along with a photo of Nicole Brown wearing sunglasses and sitting in front of the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Imagine! Different in academia

Imagine! Different in academia. is the recording of a talk presented at the International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry in Cape Town in May 2022.

Supervising PhDs: Atypical in more than one way

This is an extract from a guest post on the Supervising PhDs Community Blog. In the post, I discuss what research supervisors can do to support doctoral students who may have disabilities, chronic illnesses and/or neurodiversities.
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Supervising PhDs: Creating a sense of belonging

This is an extract from a guest post on the Supervising PhDs Community Blog, which I co-authored with Dr Jo Collins from University of Kent. In the post, we explore what research supervisors can do to help develop a sense of belonging amongst their doctoral students.

Using creative methods to collect data in social research

Workshop to explore creativity within research and to identify opportunities to use creative methods within the research process.

Joining Ableism in Academia event

Find here the instructions of how to join the Ableism in Academia event via the connected UCL moodle page.

Global Innovation Awards 2016: Winner Academic Integrity

This is about the Global Innovation Awards 2016, in which I have been nominated the winner for the Academic Integrity category.

Book review: Doing research in education – Theory and practice

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

Challenging students

I believe in challenging students and having high expectations of everyone in the classroom. This is coupled with appropriate support and guidance. However, challenging pupils is not an easy task and must be planned for meticulously.

Teaching empathy

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.

Lesson plan templates

Download a lesson plan from here

Critical incidents according to Tripp

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