Dr Nicole Brown

Creativity has become a buzzword across all disciplines in education and across all phases, from early years through to tertiary education. Although the meaning of creativity can change vastly depending on the global educational setting, it is impossible to ignore the applicability and relevance of creativity as an educational tool, philosophical framework and pedagogical approach.

With increased competition publishing articles becomes more and more difficult. Here are my 5 tips for writing articles for publication.

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

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

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 post is a link to a recording from my International Women's Day keynote presented on the 8 March 2021 at the University of Manchester.

This is a guest post on the Advance HE website published after I had delivered a successful workshop at the HEA Annual Conference demonstrating how to use LEGO reflections in higher education.

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.

This workshop provides attendees with reflective tools to help PhD students understand their innermost emotions, concerns and needs, which is a first step towards developing strategies for well-being.

This is to stimulate a discussion around boundaries of research, ethics and ownership of "messy data" resulting from creative methods.

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

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

This post provides some guidance on how to organise your lesson to flip successfully, as to flip cannot be done thoughtlessly.

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.

This is a description of how Rolfe's model of reflection should be used in order to improve practice and learning.