UK Centre for Materials Education
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Working with you to enhance the student experience
This workshop is offered to postgraduate students and should provide a new set of tools with which to tackle research projects.
Creativity, though possessed by all, is one of our least understood abilities. Encouraging creativity is an educational challenge because it cannot be taught. However tools and techniques can be learnt to enable us to observe, nurture and expand our creative potential. In this workshop, Dr Kevin Byron will demonstrate the nature of creativity, showing how, with some simple techniques, we can develop our innate creative ability.
Participants will apply a variety of 'idea-finding' techniques and other tools to a personal or group challenge they have identified in their professional life.
Kevin Byron received his PhD in applied physics from the University of Hull. After graduation he joined Nortel Networks at Harlow where he was engaged in research in photonics for some 25 years. He is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Hull and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He has some fifty patents to his name and has published widely, including a recent monograph on Inventions and Inventing (Octagon Press, 1999) and a chapter in the book 'The Alchemy of Innovation.' He was recently awarded a Research Fellowship with The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) for studies of creativity. He has presented workshops in creativity to business and educational institutions in the UK, Canada, USA and Italy.
The material covered in the workshop includes: Basic introduction to creativity and how it differs from problem-solving, the difference between creativity and innovation, creativity tools and techniques, the Osborn-Parnes process, creative behaviours, idea-finding techniques, counter-intuition and assumption testing.
There is NO registration fee for this workshop for those working in UK HE and lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Register by contacting the Centre or by completing the online registration
form at
http://www.physsci.heacademy.ac.uk/Events/RegisterForEvent.aspx?id=113.
