Prof Nicole Brown

29 October 2026, 11:00-12:00 (UK time)   Register to avoid disappointment   Ethnography’s Ghosts: Spectres, Archives, Ancestors with Emer. Professor Paul Atkinson. This talk introduces Ethnography’s Ghosts, edited by Emilie Morwenna Whitaker and Paul Atkinson. Their previous collaborations include Reflexivity and Social Research (Palgrave 2022), Ethnographic Explorations (Routledge, 2023) and methodological […]

I was asked to an “in conversation with REA”. The Research Ethics Association (REA) brings together academia, industry, and local organisations across all disciplines with the aim of promoting and implementing cross-discipline research ethics, while contributing to ethical practice and research standards. Specifically, I was asked to elaborate on a […]

This is a recorded conversation between Dr Janet Salmons of MethodSpace SAGE and Dr Nicole Brown explaining how to journal across boundaries. This video is similar to the one that we recorded for the NVivo conference Transcending Boundaries in Qualitative Research. 

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.

This article reports on a study with over 100 Graduate Teaching Assistants exploring experiences of ‘cultural bumps’ at a UK University.

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

This is a post I wrote in July 2018 about how neurodiverse, chronically ill and disabled academics manage their academic life. This was published as a guest post on the Chronically Academic blog.

The chapter offers reflections on how imagination can be nurtured in the practice of teacher education.

This paper presents how LEGO® can be used in workshops to explore doctoral students’ emotions around the complex and solitary experience of a PhD research.

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

Download my presentation from the ESLTIS16 (Enhancing Student Learning Through Scholarship 2016) conference from here.

Watch my presentation and download my sketchnote summary about STEP from the UCL Teaching and Learning conference.

Brain fog is difficult to explain. So I tried to create a simulation of an episode of brain fog.

Irrespective of the types of plagiarism, ultimately plagiarism is a punishable offence. Therefore, it is a good idea to get fully acquainted with the different types of plagiarism in order to be able to effectively avoid difficult situations. You are best advised to err on the side of caution and therefore credit too many authors and originators rather than not crediting others enough. Plagiarism is not a trivial offence, but theft and will be treated as such, irrespective of whether or not you plagiarise intentionally or unintentionally.

One of the most daunting aspects for new teachers is to manage behaviour in lessons. The dynamics of the classroom and the teacher's personality are probably key to how much classroom management you will need to do and which strategies you can use. However, there are some basic rules that you should consider and that will help you manage behaviour in your lesson.

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.