Dr 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 […]

In this post I share my reservation about reading lists, and I share the articles, journals and books that I see as my "go-to" publications.

The Diversity Network asked me for an interview to answer the question: what is it really like to be working in academia with a disability?

This article reports an empirical study into the lived experience of fibromyalgia, which led to the identificiation of four forms of resistance against processes of marginalisation amongst those who have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia.

This poem about full ethical approval is the outcome of poetic inquiry and analysis within Embodied Inquiry from my research with academics.

I was invited to contribute to the Photovoice Worldwide webinar series to present the Systematic Visuo-Textual Analysis, a framework for analysing visual and textual data.

This is an example of an ethnographic poem, the output of poetic inquiry and analysis within Embodied Inquiry from my research with academics.

This article seeks to explore the nature and depth of students’ engagement by providing an example from a teacher education programme.

This article describes a project at the Rambert School of Dance that introduced the use of creative methods for teaching reflection and reflective practice.

This article is an invited editorial in the Diverse Voice Series of the journal. The editorial outlines the difficulty of building a network of like-minded researchers when engaging in arts-based approaches.

From the context of UK higher education this article explores ableism in academia to stimulate a debate and raise awareness of those disabled and ill academics , whose voices are not heard.

To make sense of my participants' experiences, I am creating an art installation based on the raw data I receive in my research work.

Getting started with educational research is a short introduction to the research process and offers help with questions and methods.

In this post I describe what identity boxes are, how I developed the idea and why identity boxes can be used in research.

This is a brief description of Kolb's reflective model.