Dr Nicole Brown

The organising committee of the World Conference in Qualitative Research invited me to deliver the closing keynote for their 10th Conference in Madrid in January 2026.   The body in qualitative research: from disembodied knowledge to corporeal praxis In my keynote I examined the role of the body in qualitative […]

In this video Dr Helen Kara and Dr Nicole Brown discuss the role of writing in the life and career of researchers.

This video about the benefits and challenges of participatory research builds on my original work presented at the PASAR conference in 2017.

This presentation video exploring identity boxes as an art-based approach at a distance was recorded for the virtual NVivo conference Qualitative Research in a Changing World. 

This article discusses researchers' experiences of interdisciplinary research to maximize the benefits of interdisciplinary research.

I was invited to contribute to The PhD Life Raft Podcast. My contribution was about research journaling and reflective practice, and the book Making the most of your research journal.

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.

This is an extract from a guest post on the Supervising PhDs Community Blog, where I explore the experience of "atypical" students, and what research supervisors can do to better support those "atypical" students. 

In this chapter I explore my journey from a secondary teacher to teacher educator to lecturer, a journey that signifies for me the transition from a teacher interested in embodiment to an embodied teacher and finally to an embodied academic.

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

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.

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

This is my contribution to the BSA MedSoc2017 conference, which was held in September 2017 at the University of York.

RefME survey findings show how students are affected by plagiarism. More needs to be done to prevent plagiarism by raising awareness.

This is a review of "The art of being a brilliant middle leader" by G. Toward, C. Henley and A. Cope. A fantastic read for any team leader.