Nicole is a Lecturer in Education at the UCL Institute of Education, London, and Director of Social Research & Practice and Education Ltd. Underpinned by her interpretation of human communication relying on an embodied, metaphorical understanding of the world, she uses participatory and creative approaches to data collection and analysis to capture experiences and emotions that are difficult to express in traditional interviews. Nicole has taught research methods for over ten years, including at UCL, the University of Kent, De Montfort University Leicester, the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE), the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), the Social Research Association (SRA), the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), and the British Medical Association (BMA).
Nicole’s extensive list of publications includes the books Making the Most of Your Research Journal and Embodied Inquiry: Research Methods, and the articles Scope and Continuum of Participatory Research; Identity boxes: using materials and metaphors to elicit experiences; “Listen to your gut”: a reflexive approach to data analysis; Emerging researcher perspectives: Finding your people; My challenge of developing a creative research methods network and Video-conference interviews and; Ethical and methodological concerns in the context of health research.
