FRSA: Fellowship of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Nicole Brown is FRSA, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
This is an extract from my contribution to the LSE Impact blog exploring lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Article: Systematic Visuo-Textual Analysis
This article presents the Systematic Visuo-Textual Analysis, a framework combining visual and textual data in a systematic, analytical approach.
Keeping a research journal that works for you
This is an extract from my contribution to the LSE Impact blog discussing how to keep an effective research journal, thereby busting some of the myths surrounding research journaling.
Research journaling: Journal across boundaries
This is a recorded conversation between Dr Janet Salmons of MethodSpace SAGE and Dr Nicole Brown explaining how to journal across boundaries. This video is similar to the one that we recorded for the NVivo conference Transcending Boundaries in Qualitative Research.
Article: Making sense of cultural bumps – Supporting GTAs with teaching
This article reports on a study with over 100 Graduate Teaching Assistants exploring experiences of ‘cultural bumps’ at a UK University.
Ice breakers: starting lessons or meetings
This post is about ice breakers, and how we can plan for starting a session effectively without distracting from our contents.
Conferencing “disabled style”
This is an extract from a guest post on the Conference Inference blog published upon invitation in relation to my ableism in academia work. In this post, I illustrate what it means to do conferencing "disabled style", when your body and/or mind are not typical, and what the realities are of navigating and negotiating conference spaces under the influence of visible and invisible conditions.
Article: Creative and embodied methods to teach reflections
This article describes a project at the Rambert School of Dance that introduced the use of creative methods for teaching reflection and reflective practice.
Article: Making academia more accessible
The remit of this paper is to provide practical ideas and recommendations to address accessibility issues in events and conferences as a first step to improving existing working conditions.
A conversation about creative and art-based methods in research
This entry shows the edited outcome of a video-recorded conversation regarding the use of creative and art-based methods in research.
Presentation from CSHE Research Festival
This is my contribution to the CSHE Research Festival 2017, which was held in October 2017 at the University of Kent.
How to flip, so it’s not a flop
This post provides some guidance on how to organise your lesson to flip successfully, as to flip cannot be done thoughtlessly.
The Mosaic approach according to Clark and Moss
Alison Clark and Peter Moss developed their own way of carrying out research with children – the Mosaic approach. The idea behind the Mosaic approach is that researchers collect data through a wide range of means. These are what Clark and Moss consider "individual tiles". It is then the researcher's task to put these individual pieces together to form one big picture, just like many little tiles are formed into one big mosaic.
Lesson planning – some recommendations
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.
Writing an action plan
How to write an action plan in order to improve teaching practice. An action plan should include targets, next steps and success criteria for it to be meaningful.