Dr Nicole Brown

This is a call for contributions to an edited book on object methods in qualitative research. Submissions should be made to Dr Kaylan Schwarz.

The organising committee of the World Conference in Qualitative Research invited me to deliver the closing keynote for their 10th Conference in Madrid in January 2026.   The body in qualitative research: from disembodied knowledge to corporeal praxis In my keynote I examined the role of the body in qualitative […]

In this post I share my contribution to the SAGE research methods online resources about doing fieldwork remotely.

Imagine! Different in academia. is the recording of a talk presented at the International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry in Cape Town in May 2022.

Nicole Brown is FRSA, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

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 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.

If students are to take responsibility for their learning, then why are they not also in charge of their assessments? This question forms the basis for this paper that is co-written between two students and one member of staff.

The paper reports on the lived experience of fibromyalgia, which used identity boxes and metaphorical representation to offer a holistic view.

This entry shows the edited outcome of a video-recorded conversation regarding the use of creative and art-based methods in research.

In this post I describe what identity boxes are, how I developed the idea and why identity boxes can be used in research.

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

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.

This is a post to formally accept the nomination for the Liebster Award 2018.