STEMskiller: Skill Set Map for Mentors of Early Career Researchers

ENGAGEMENT, INVOLVEMENT, COLLABORATION, TRANSDISCIPLINARITY, AND INQUISITIVENESS: Inquisitiveness/curiosity

Fostering creativity

Definition:

Many institutions do not include training in fostering creativity in their training curricula for early career researchers, but concurrently push ECRs to be “innovative” and to “create novel ideas”—the so-called “creativity paradox.”[1]

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334462033_Creativity_in_Research_Cultivate
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Useful resources on Fostering creativity:

Ulibarri, N., Cravens, A.E., Nabergoj, A.S., Kernbach, S., & Royalty, A. (2019). Creativity in Research: Cultivate Clarity, Be Innovative, and Make Progress in your Research Journey. Cambridge University Press. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334462033_Creativity_in_Research
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The book states that:

 …explores four foundational abilities that reflect things that creative people do: being aware of your thoughts and behaviors, understanding and using emotions, making sure that you solve the right problem, and learning through iteration and experimentation. Second, we dive into three additional abilities that help create the conditions for creative thinking; we call these support structures. The support structures are using language and stories to generate the creative behaviors and identity you want to adopt, managing your energy to create motivation, and using input from other people to amplify your creativity. Together, these seven abilities...provide different cognitive, emotional, and behavioral lenses through which to operationalize creativity. (p. 7)

Excerpt only; book review at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/104841/1/impactofsocialsciences_2020_05_31_book_review_creativity_in_research.pdf

Tags: IPS CreaT; IPS T; IPS PS; PSR CE; PSR IKC; PSR ER; PSR LL; PSR GL; IAL IntL; CompTS; CompGS

Peer Review: None

Table of contents:

4.7.1. Fostering creativity

 

Author: Stephanie Krueger

Peer Reviewer(s): None

Last Updated: October 28, 2021

 

Editor: Stephanie Krueger Last modified: 28.10. 2021 13:10