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.

This post offers some recommendations on what to do if teaching involves larger audiences rather than smaller groups.

Contribution to Times Higher Education Campus about becoming an innovator in Higher Education.

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

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

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

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 post is a link to a recording from an event held via the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, where I was asked to discuss ableism in academia.

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.

In this guest post Dr Helen Ross reflects on the exam production line of our current school system.

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

This is the link to the PDF version of the article "Preventing plagiarism and fostering academic identity: a practical approach" (Brown and Janssen, 2017).

This review is about the book "Doing research in education". A fabulous resource and introduction to doing research in education.

Games are often used as motivators in lessons, but games shall not become the main focus. We are teachers and learning needs to be central to lessons.

Nowadays more and more emphasis is placed upon the impact of research. In many cases research students are even required to create a research poster as part of their thesis and enquiry submissions. However, how do you create a research poster?

When observing experienced teachers in lessons or when looking at their lesson plans, the lesson planning process appears easy. However, once you start planning your first lesson you will soon realise that there are many aspects that you must take into consideration. Here are some recommendations to get you started.