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
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%).
Creativity one of the key skills needed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
New research presented at the Word Economic Forum at Davos highlighted the key skills needed to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, with the top three skills being ‘Complex Problem Solving’, ‘Critical Thinking’ and ‘Creativity.
Presentation at Creativity and Cognition Conference in Singapore
Gareth Loudon presented some of our new research work on ‘Real-time Biofeedback of Heart Rate Variability Measures to Track and Help Improve Levels of Attention and Relaxation’ at the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference in Singapore in June.
You can get details of the work I presented at the ACM Digital Library
Barbara Fredicksen on the power of Positive Emotions
Prof. Barbara Fredicksen talks about how power emotions can help open up the mind and help us see the bigger picture (literally) – and discusses the implications for creativity
New 3-year contract for management and business innovation training
We have secured a 3-year contract to provide management and business innovation training to organisations across Wales as part of the Leading Business Growth programme, jointly run by Bangor University and Cardiff Metropolitan University.