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Lessons learned: Creative & embodied research methods in practice

This is a call for contributions to an open educational resource aimed at helping researchers, students, practitioners and educators learn about using creative and embodied methods in real-world research settings.

Keynote: The body in qualitative research

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...

Objects as metaphors to account for embodiment

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...

Book: Embodied Inquiry: Research Methods

Accounting for the interdisciplinary nature of the field, this book has been written to be a concise primer into Embodied Inquiry for research students, scholars and practitioners alike.

A stack of books. All books are mentioned in the blog post.

Recommended readings – a reading list for creative methods

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.

Cover slide showing title "Imagine! Different in academia" and contact details along with a photo of Nicole Brown wearing sunglasses and sitting in front of the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Imagine! Different in academia

Imagine! Different in academia. is the recording of a talk presented at the International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry in Cape Town in May 2022.

The ResDance podcast: Embodied Inquiry

I was invited to contribute to the ResDance Podcast. My contribution was about my Embodied Inquiry work, as part of my own research and as part of the Embodied Inquiry: Research Methods book.

Embodied Inquiry as a research method

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.

Article: Exploring experiences of ableism in academia

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

Image of concentric circles in different colours.

Creative output: Participatory research: Full ethical approval

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

Disclosure dances: The experience of PhD students with invisible disabilities in higher education

This post is a link to a recording from my presentation "Disclosure Dances" presented on the 30 June 2021 at the UCL Institute of Education.

Book: Embodied Inquiry: Research Methods

Accounting for the interdisciplinary nature of the field, this book has been written to be a concise primer into Embodied Inquiry for research students, scholars and practitioners alike.

Image of concentric circles in different colours.

Creative output: This is just to say

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

Workshops and presentations

General information for all of the workshops and Nicole's virtual learning environment.

Chapter: Rhythmanalysis to account for time

This chapter draws on Nicole's research on how academic staff with chronic illnesses and disabilities specifically interact with the buildings and what impact the physical environment has on their everyday experience.

Covers of two books edited by Nicole Brown: Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education (Policy Press) und Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education (UCL Press)

Recordings of ableism events and keynotes

It is with great excitement and pride that I share a list of scheduled ableism events. Celebrating the launch of my two edited books, find here events about Ableism in Academia.

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