Solving Research Problems Creatively

Prerequisites

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:

• Understand 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.

All participants should bring to the course a challenge / problem that they are facing; one for which some creative thinking may prove useful. You will apply the tools of creativity to the challenge. The challenge / problem does not necessarily have to be from your research.

Number of sessions: 1

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

Two-hour session.

This course runs once per term.