Dr Nicole Brown

"Photovoice Reimagined" introduces photovoice as a method and photovoice as a framework to enable a more participatory approach to research.

"Making the most of your research journal" offers guidance and additional resources to make research journaling effective.

This post is a link to recordings and write-ups of an ableism event held in German via the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz and Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung Linz.

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.

This is my reshaping higher education contribution to the post-strike Big Meeting organised by Reclaim the University in June 2018.

This is my contribution to the BSA MedSoc2017 conference, which was held in September 2017 at the University of York.

This is about the Global Innovation Awards 2016, in which I have been nominated the winner for the Academic Integrity category.

In my experience using audience response systems in secondary or higher education can improve participation and engagement amongst learners.

Many teacher training sessions and professional development courses nowadays link to or culminate in the compilation of portfolios. Portfolios are evidences and resources that are gathered and annotated systematically to provide an overview of the teachers' achievements, career events and areas for development. The process of gathering information for the portfolios is an opportunity to take a step back from everyday work to reposition yourself and reconsider your values, your development and your learning. Here is some help for developing portfolios.

Methodology and methods are only part of the story of choosing a research framework. The way you go about collecting and interpreting data is strongly influenced by how you interpret knowledge and truth. This is about the epistemology. In simple terms, epistemology is the theory of knowledge and deals with how knowledge is gathered and from which sources. In research terms your view of the world and of knowledge strongly influences your interpretation of data and therefore your philosophical standpoint should be made clear from the beginning.

When planning for a practice-based enquiry or small-scale study you will most often be confronted with the choice between an action research or case study approach. Here is a simplified exploration to get you started.

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

Being a mentor for trainee teachers is rewarding and challenging at the same time. Ultimately, the smiles on a trainee teacher's face after successful lessons is definitely worth every battle against all odds.