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
# | Date | Time | Venue | Trainer | |
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1 | Wed 16 Nov 2016 10:00 - 12:00 | 10:00 - 12:00 | CCTL, Revans Room | map | Matthew Lane |
Participative workshop including provision of information, discussion and practical exercises.
Two-hour session.
This course runs once per term.
Booking / availability