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Researcher Development : Creative Skills in Research - Adaptability and Flexibility
| Description | Theme: Education and Research Category: Education and Research This activity is for Research active staff and would be particularly useful to Early Career Researchers. This session will be ONLINE.
About this course: . Forging an academic career is highly demanding, requiring both a rhino hide to survive the slings and arrows of unsuccessful grant applications and missed opportunities, and wide-eyed wonder to sustain passion and curiosity for a subject. How does one stay creatively malleable in a potentially ossifying environment? In this session, we will explore the roles of adaptability and flexibility in the creative process - both are required for creativity and are strengthened through creative habits. We will explore related themes of ambiguity, iteration, failure and confidence, and introduce practical tools to challenge path dependency and encourage reframing. The session will be interactive, discursive, informal and - if we get it right - enjoyable and informative.
Learning outcomes: As a result of attending this course, you will be able to: - better understand the roles of adaptability and flexibility in the creative process. - employ techniques to encourage adaptability and flexibility that supports creativity. - use tools to reframe experiences that are experienced as failures. - embrace difference and uncertainty for their creative potential in research contexts. Who should attend this session:. This ONLINE workshop is open to Research active staff and would be particularly useful to Early Career Researchers and PGRs interested in creative processes and skilling up. Open to all disciplines, not arts specific. If you have accessibility requirements, please contact researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk in advance to discuss further.
What previous participants have said about the course: . New course, although a similar workshop on Noticing elicited the following feedback:. - Well crafted resources and exercises. Nice way of changing our perspective. - Really well paced with variety of activities. Nice highlighting and underlining of relevance/connections.
Presenter(s): The workshop is led by Sarah Campbell, Arts and Culture - https://www.exeter.ac.uk/staff-profile/index.php?username=sec247 and Clare Hearn, Exeter Business School - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-hearn-bb95a931/?originalSubdomain=uk . Learning provider: This course is administered by Researcher Development; please contact researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk for more details. | ||||||||||||||
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