Rate My Professor Kim Brown

Dr Kim Brown serves as a Senior Lecturer in the College of Education at the University of Otago, contributing to academic programmes focused on teaching in an Aotearoa New Zealand context and higher education development. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Otago in 2018, with her doctoral thesis titled Investigating Students' Perceptions of Collegiality in Doctoral Education, which adopted a collective, student-centred approach to explore how doctoral students define and practise collegiality within a research-intensive university environment. Prior affiliations include roles in the Graduate Research School, where she engaged in projects enhancing doctoral experiences.

Brown's research centres on decolonising education, collegiality in doctoral programmes, the intersections of disability and doctoral study, community-engaged scholarship, metacognition in student learning, and career development support for PhD graduates. Her publications include Cultivating a 'collegial turn' in doctoral education (Teaching in Higher Education, 2021), Woven: the intersections of disability and doctoral study, and the lives of students who navigate these intersections (2024, with Lara Sanderson et al.), Pedagogical training for developing students' metacognition (Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2023), Retrospective perceptions of support for career development among PhD graduates from US and NZ universities (Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2024), Valuing and evaluating community-engaged scholarship (Higher Education Research & Development, 2018, with Kerry Shephard et al.), Researching the Professional-Development Needs of Community-Engaged Scholars in a New Zealand University (Sustainability, 2017), and Using phenomenography to build an understanding of how university people conceptualise their community-engaged activities (Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016, with Kerry Shephard et al.). She has also contributed to initiatives such as creating Te Tiriti partnerships in chemistry education as principal investigator. Brown's scholarship informs practices to foster inclusive, collegial doctoral environments and empower diverse learners in higher education settings.