CENTRE FOR CREATIVITY

15/11/201815/11/2018

New Report on “Creativity and the Future of Skills”

Interesting new report by the Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre on “Creativity and the Future of Skills”. Three key findings in the report:

“1. Creativity is likely to be even more important in the future job market…

2. Employers don’t just value creativity alone: they need talent with project management and organisational skills too…

3. Creative occupations don’t have a monopoly on creativity”… Examples given of other occupations requiring creativity include “engineers, manufacturing and business development roles.”

16/10/201816/10/2018

Creativity as the bridge between science and humanities education

My recent thoughts, published in “The Conversation”, on how creativity can bridge the divide between science and humanities education for schools, colleges and universities.

16/10/201816/10/2018

TEDx Talk by Shama Rahman on Multidisciplinary creativity

An interesting talk by Shama Rahman on creativity and the importance of bringing together people and ideas from the arts and sciences. It is also worth checking out Shama’s work at Jugular Productions.

12/06/2018

How coworking spaces need to evolve to support creativity

A nice article by Tuukka Toivonen and Carsten Sørensen on how coworking spaces need to evolve to support the creative journeys of individuals and teams more effectively.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2018/06/07/why-the-co-working-industry-must-take-creativity-seriously/

04/02/201801/03/2018

Presentation at HEA Conference on Creativity in STEM Education

Gareth Loudon presented the keynote speech at the recent Higher Education Academy conference on creativity in STEM education, on integrating ideas from ‘design thinking’ into the STEM curricula. You can also find details on twitter under #HEASTEM18

04/08/2017

UK businesses at risk of a creativity crisis

New research by Microsoft suggests that UK businesses are at risk of a creativity crisis because of a failure to encourage and support creativity within their organisations.

The research found that 40% of UK workers surveyed reported that innovation was not encouraged in their workplace. Major factors highlighted as hindering creativity included uninspiring workplaces (41%), a stressful atmosphere (34%) and a lack of appropriate spaces to focus (28%).