Reflexivity and positionality in social sciences research
This post links to my contribution to The SRA Blog, in which I write about the purpose and practice of reflexivity and positionality
FRSA: Fellowship of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Nicole Brown is FRSA, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Book: Embodied Inquiry: Research Methods
Accounting for the interdisciplinary nature of the field, this book has been written to be a concise primer into Embodied Inquiry for research students, scholars and practitioners alike.
Creative output: This is just to say
This is an example of an ethnographic poem, the output of poetic inquiry and analysis within Embodied Inquiry from my research with academics.
Article: Making academia more accessible
The remit of this paper is to provide practical ideas and recommendations to address accessibility issues in events and conferences as a first step to improving existing working conditions.
Academic identity: active identity and body work in academia
In my contribution to the SRHE Annual Conference, I talked about academics' active body work and identity work to maintain their academic identity.
Meaningful, external-facing assessments
This is my presentation related to a collaborative project at UCL to develop portfolios to become meaningful, external-facing assessments.
Creative methods – messy data?
This is to stimulate a discussion around boundaries of research, ethics and ownership of "messy data" resulting from creative methods.
PASAR Connecting Communities conference
This is my contribution to the PASAR Connecting Communities conference, which was held in November 2017.
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.
The “I” in Fibromyalgia at the PGFes2016
This is my contribution to the Postgraduate Research Festival, the PGFes2016, at the University of Kent.
Preventing plagiarism from the UCLTL conference
See feedback from the conference workshop about Preventing Plagiarism and the Role of Identity Codes.
Playing games in lessons
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.
Book review: Ticked off – checklists for teachers, students, school leaders
This is a review of Harry Fletcher-Wood's book on how checklists can make all aspects of teaching more effective.
Research posters
Download two examples of research posters from here.
Reflective model according to Rolfe et al.
This is a description of how Rolfe's model of reflection should be used in order to improve practice and learning.





