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 links to my contribution to the Lex Academic Blog, in which I write about how to keep a research journal.

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.

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.

In my contribution to the SRHE Annual Conference, I talked about academics' active body work and identity work to maintain their academic identity.

In this post I am asking "What's your message?". This is about teachers' behaviours and attitudes and how students perceive these.

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

Download my presentation from the "Islam and Peaceful Relations" conference from here.

A cyclical process of reading, writing and editing is only possible if you leave enough time. Time management is therefore one of the key skills to learn when entering University life. The easiest way to introduce effective time management is by preparing schedules.

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.

This is a brief description of how the reflective cycle according to Gibbs works.

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

Bringing up a child bilingually is a conscious decision, but there are issues and challenges that bilingual families encounter that are not mentioned in any of those handbooks or parent guides. Knowing about these might have had led to fewer disappointments.