Dr Nicole Brown

I was invited to contribute to the Cambridge Centre for International Research podcast series to talk about the experience of disabled people in higher education and how to improve the situation.

This is an extract from a guest post on the Supervising PhDs Community Blog, where I explore the experience of "atypical" students, and what research supervisors can do to better support those "atypical" students. 

This article presents an original engagement with research into emotions in the PhD to ask ‘Where’s the validation?’ by using emotion work as a theoretical foundation.

This post is about ice breakers, and how we can plan for starting a session effectively without distracting from our contents.

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

The chapter offers reflections on how imagination can be nurtured in the practice of teacher 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.

This is my contribution to the international conference "Connecting Higher Education" held at UCL Institute of Education in collaboration with McMaster University, Canada and University of Adelaide, Australia.

In this post I report some preliminary outcomes from the pilot phase of my fibromyalgia study. This is about learning to accept.

This is about my contribution to the SEDA conference in November 2016, which was about aspects of the Secondary Teacher Education Programme.

This post links to the review of the book "Against Plagiarism - A Guide for Editors and Authors".

Producing reflections can be a creative process if we allow for more creative methods, such as Lego models.

Artefacts can be used to get students interested in a lesson, but artefacts can do more than just represent an engaging hook. In this post I am discussing the use of artefacts in lessons based on questions that I have been asked in teacher training sessions.