Dr Nicole Brown

In April 2024, I was asked to deliver a keynote for an international webinar organised by CripLab. CripLab is a research laboratory on crip posthumanities in Santiago, Chile, whose members seek to map the modes of discursive and material production of the norm of dis/ability in Chilean universities that develop […]

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

This is an extract from a guest post Dr Jennifer Leigh and I wrote for the SAGE MethodSpace to outline some of the principles of Embodied Inquiry. 

This article presents disabled academics' experiences and collective understandings of ableism as constructed through normalisation and able-bodiedness.

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

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

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

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

This is my contribution to the international conference "Connecting Higher Education" held at UCL Institute of Education in collaboration with McMaster University, Canada and University of Adelaide, Australia.

This review is about "Study skills for students with dyslexia". This is a good resource for teachers helping prepare students for University.

Thoughts on what constitutes and characterises communities of practice and what is required to make communities of practice efficient and effective.

This is a brief simulation of what cognitive dysfunction and brain fog feel like.

Download my presentation from the "Islam and Peaceful Relations" conference from here.

The classroom is a place where learning happens and should be encouraged, therefore classroom management relates to the strategies a teacher can use to organise students' learning. According to Garrett (2015) classroom management can be considered in five categories: behavioural management and discipline, the layout of a classroom, rules and routines, the relevance of relationships and the importance of instruction. Good classroom management is proactive and about the students' learning.

Writing entries for a reflective journal is often a daunting aspect of teacher training, as we are not used to writing diaries. Here are some thoughts on how to get started with writing reflections.