Prof Nicole Brown

QUEST (Qualitative Expertise at Southampton) in collaboration with the National Centre for Research Methods and the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership organised a webinar on Metaphor and Method. I was one of three keynote speakers presenting “Objects as metaphors to account for embodiment”.   Access the video at the NCRM […]

This post links to my contribution to The SRA Blog, in which I write about the purpose and practice of reflexivity and positionality

This post offers some recommendations on what to do if teaching involves larger audiences rather than smaller groups.

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

This is a contribution to Times Higher Education from February 2018 about invisible disabilities in the higher education sector.

This article explores where the somatically inspired pedagogy of teaching reflective practice through a creative and embodied approach sits within dance training.

This paper seeks to exemplify a reflexive approach to data analysis that accounts for the researcher’s positionality as well as the increasingly untraditional, unconventional data stemming from creative data collection methods.

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 PASAR Connecting Communities conference, which was held in November 2017.

I am often asked how much reading is enough? In this post I outline what you should consider in order to decide when it is enough.

Plagiarism is a socio-cultural issue. This is about academic integrity and the reputation of an institution and the degree that is awarded. I would not want to hold an academic degree that is devalued in such way that many people were able to cheat their way through it. This is a reflective piece of writing on plagiarism and what it feels like for an academic.

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.