Solving Research Problems Creatively

Prerequisites

While we might associate creativity with innate ability and creating beautiful works of art, thinking creatively can be seen as a skill to be developed and Research itself can be seen as a creative process. This two-hour course is intended to help you develop and feel more confident in your ability to think creatively. Participants are taken through a systematic two-part creative thinking process, exploring divergent and convergent thinking, as well as the 'rules' of brainstorming.

Outcomes:

• Understanding that creativity is a thinking process comprising divergent and convergent thinking
• Practice strategies to improve your divergent and convergent thinking
• Know a systematic creative thinking strategy for improving creative problem solving

All graduate students and postdoctoral researchers / research staff.
Postdoctoral researchers and research staff are welcome to attend this course, but may prefer to attend or follow up with Postdocs: Sustaining and Expanding your Creativity, which is tailored specifically to the postdoctoral experience.
Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available here.

Number of sessions: 1

Participative workshop including provision of information, discussion and practical exercises.

Two-hour session.

This course runs once per term.