Nigel Brown

BA, FCA, MANLP, ILTM

Main Teaching Areas

Financial Management.

Brown, N. (2005). Meta programmes for identifying thinking preferences and their impact on accounting students’ educational experience. Journal of Accounting Education, 23(4): pp232-247

Brown, N. (2003). A Comparison of the Dominant Meta Programme Patterns in Accounting Undergraduate Students and Accounting Lecturers at a UK Business School. Accounting Education: An International Journal, 12(2), pp159 – 175

Brown, N. (2006) The development of a questionnaire assessing meta cognitive patterns of students majoring in Accounting in higher Education. Accounting Education: An International Journal, 15(3) pp301-323

Brown, N. (2004) What Makes a Good Educator? The Relevance of Meta Programmes. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 29(5), pp 515 – 33.

‘Student performance in business and accounting subjects as measured by assessment results: an exploration of the relevance of personality traits, identified using meta programmes.’ (2004) (with M. Graff) The International Journal of Management Education. 4 (1), 3-18.

‘Neuro-linguistic Programming and its relevance to effective communication.’ (2000). With Turnbull, J. ACCA Students’ Newsletter, September 2000. pp. 4 – 9.

Examples of Recent Consultancy Provision of training courses in Neuro Linguistic Programming.

External Funding

Recipient of the Committee of Heads of Accounting (CHA) Research Bursary in 2001.

Provision of training courses in Neuro Linguistic Programming.

Research Interests

Accounting education; Neuro Linguistic Programming.

Current Research Activity

Exploration of potential use of meta programme patterns (from the field of Neuro Linguistic Programming) in the context of accounting education.

Refinement and testing of an assessment instrument developed for identifying metacognitive patterns (including meta programmes) in a Higher Education context. Investigation of the relevance of metacognitive patterns to student learning, performance and retention, and how patterns change over time.

International collaborative studies.

Extend application of assessment instrument to other contexts, including careers and work.

Winner of the 2003 British Accounting Association’s Special Interest Group On Accounting Education annual prize for the best paper published in volume 12 of Accounting Education: An International Journal.

Successful completion of PhD in May, 2007

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