"She has been so careful at work; she has had all of her shopping delivered for weeks, actually for months, now; she's even wiped down the items with bleach as they are delivered, and still does. How can this have happened?"
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Dr Nicole Brown is Associate Professor 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 and Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education, co-authored Embodied Inquiry: Research Methods, and authored Making the Most of Your Research Journal. 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. To this end, Nicole uses creative methods within social sciences research thereby experimenting with form and process. She creates fictionalisations, writes poetry, develops installations and produces visual artworks as part of the process of collecting data, making sense of experiences and sharing findings. She tweets as @ncjbrown and maintains her own website at https://www.nicole-brown.co.uk.
