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- Associate Professor
- IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- UCL Institute of Education
- Disability, Chronic Illness and Neurodiversity Module Lead
- Arts and Sciences (BASc)
- Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Nicole holds a PhD, MA HE, MTeach, Mag.Phil., PGCert HE and DipTrans. She is a UKGCE Recognised Research Supervisor and Advance HE Senior Fellow. In 2022, she was inducted as Fellow to the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
She has published the books Making the Most of Your Research Journal (Policy Press), Embodied Inquiry: Research Methods (Bloomsbury), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education (Policy Press), and Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education (UCL Press). Her next books will be Creativity in Education: International Perspectives (UCL Press) and Photovoice Reimagined (Policy Press).
Nicole's research interests relate to social research practices, in particular physical and material representations of experiences, the use of metaphors in research and the generation of knowledge.She tweets as @ncjbrown and @AbleismAcademia




Teaching:
PGT:
Leading Learning
Research and Professional Practice
Practice-Based Enquiry
Literacy, Language and Communication
Researching Education and Society: Qualitative Methods
Disability, Chronic Illness and Neurodivergence in the Contemporary Society
PhD | PhD Sociology | University of Kent | |
2020 | UKCGE Recognised Research Supervisor | UK Council for Graduate Education | |
2020 | MA | MA Higher Education (Distinction) | |
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 | |||
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 |