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Dr Nicole Brown
IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
University College London
20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL
Appointment
- Associate Professor
- IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- UCL Institute of Education
Biography
Nicole Brown is Associate Professor at UCL and Director of Social Research & Practice and Education Ltd.
Nicole holds a PhD, MA HE, MTeach, Mag.Phil., PGCert HE and DipTrans. She is a UKGCE Recognised Research Supervisor and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA).
She has edited Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education for Policy Press and Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education for UCL Press, co-authored Embodied Inquiry: Research Methods for Bloomsbury, authored Making the Most of Your Research Journal for Policy Press, and is currently working on Creativity in Teacher Education for UCL Press.
Nicole’s research interests relate to physical and material representations and metaphors, the generation of knowledge and, more generally, research methods and approaches to explore identity and body work, as well as to advance learning and teaching within higher education.
She tweets as @ncjbrown and @AbleismAcademia
For Nicole's full CV, please, cut and paste the following link into your browser: http://www.nicole-brown.co.uk/Downloads/NBCV.pdf
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The underlying principle for my work is that research, teaching and social activism are inextricably interconnected. As a consequence, my personal practices in research, teaching and dissemination are also interwoven.
The constant in the narrative of my work is to give voice to the unheard and empower the marginalised. I aim to provide those with quieter voices with means and tools to explore the unexplored and express the in-expressible. I therefore focus on:
- Participatory, multi-sensory, embodied and immersive research, in particular through arts-based approaches, material and physical representations and metaphors
- Student experiences and learning
- Teacher education and development in the primary, secondary and tertiary sector
- Identity and identity construction in general, but more specifically in higher education including the identities of those in precarious positions and with disabilities and/or chronic conditions
- The performative and communicative role of the body
Teaching Summary
Doctoral supervision:
I am currently supervising doctoral projects on the lived experience of queerness amongst psychotherapists using creative methods, a Deleuzoguattarian analysis of identity development amongst social science PhD students, teacher presence and embodiment in the classroom, the experience of students with disabilities in South Korea and the impact of creative movement on learning in secondary science lessons.
Teaching:
Leading Learning
Research and Professional Practice
Practice-Based Enquiry
ResLiteracy, Language and Communication
Researching Education and Society: Qualitative Methods
Disability, Chronic Illness and Neurodivergence in the Contemporary Society
Academic Background
| PhD | PhD Sociology | University of Kent | |
| 2018 | Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education | University of Kent | |
| 2016 | ATQ04 - Recognised by the HEA as a Senior Fellow | University College London | |
| 2016 | ATQ03 - Recognised by the HEA as a Fellow | University College London | |
| ATQ08 - Accredited as a teacher of their subject by a professional UK body | |||
| ATQ10 - Overseas accreditation or qualification for any level of teaching | |||
| 2020 | MA | MA Higher Education (Distinction) | |
| 2020 | UKCGE Recognised Research Supervisor | UK Council for Graduate Education | |
| 2008 | Diploma In Translation | City, University of London | |
| 2006 | Master of Teaching | Institute of Education | |
| 2001 | Magister | University of Vienna, Austria | |
| 2001 | Qualified Teacher Status | Department for Education |
