Nicole Brown, PhD, MA HE, MTeach, Mag.Phil., PGCert HE, DipTrans, UKGCE Recognised Research Supervisor, SFHEA 

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Nicole Brown is a Lecturer in Education at UCL Institute of Education and Director of Social Research & Practice and Education Ltd. Nicole gained her PhD in Sociology at the University of Kent for her research into the construction of academic identity under the influence of fibromyalgia. 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, and authored Making the Most of Your Research Journal for Policy 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, @FibroIdentity and @AbleismAcademia