CREATE joins MK Innovates STEM Festival: 7th/8th July 2017

Posted on June 30, 2017 by create psy

Gillian Hill reports on preparations to help celebrate the 50^th birthday of Milton Keynes at a festival to celebrate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in Middleton Hall, Milton Keynes Shopping Centre (7th/8th July)

Final preparations are underway for our Pop-up Lab. showcasing the University of Buckingham’s Psychology Research Hubs which – of course – includes CREATE.

The challenge was set by MK Innovates to provide exciting and interactive activities that engage young people – and especially girls – from Milton Keynes and the surrounding area with science. As always, the CREATE team were keen to get in on the act and we’ve identified some core aspects of our research to showcase at the event.

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Creativity ‘special issue’ – call for participation!

Posted on May 30, 2017 by create psy

**Novel Approaches for Studying Creativity in Problem-Solving and Artistic Performance – a Frontiers in Psychology Research Topic, coming out in March 2018**

Kathryn Friedlander invites creativity researchers world-wide to contribute to an exciting Frontiers in Psychology Research Topic, which went live last week.

Shouldn’t research into ‘creativity’ be pretty creative itself?

Philip Fine and I certainly think so, which is why we’ve been working with Frontiers in Psychology over the past few months to launch a new Research Topic looking at ‘Novel Approaches for Studying Creativity in Problem-Solving and Artistic Performance‘. The topic went live last week, and together with our other co-editors Roger Kneebone, Ian Hocking, Amory Danek and Bill Thompson we are busy advertising this opportunity as widely as possible, to connect with potential contributors. Do you fit the bill?

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A conference on a shoestring, decided upon over a burger – some reflections!

Posted on May 24, 2017 by create psy

The Psychology of Creativity: Building Impact, Skills and Collaboration.

Gillian Hill reflects on the experience of organizing a brand new conference event on a tight budget in May 2017.

It all started with a burger…

We were not joking when we told everyone that Lindsey, Shelly and I conceived the idea of our Psychology of Creativity event over a burger (it was quite a posh burger!) one lunchtime last November. We were talking about conferences, and lamenting the lack of UK-based events with a specific focus on Creativity – so what was more natural than to decide to organize one ourselves? Continue reading →

Just 15 days to our conference!

Posted on May 1, 2017 by create psy

Creativity Conference Excitement is mounting as the hours tick down towards our conference on the Psychology of Creativity: Building Impact, Skills & Collaborations…

Gill Hill and Shelly Kemp have been working hard with our amazingly enthusiastic and efficient colleague at Edinburgh Napier, Lindsey Carruthers, to make sure that everything is in place for the day – and the event has now sold out! Continue reading →

‘From Elephants to Uh-ohs’: Soapbox Science one year on

Posted on February 18, 2017 by create psy

Soapbox Science may be just the platform you need to launch your academic career. Gill Hill looks back over her personal successes of the past year, since her appearance at Milton Keynes, and urges all female scientists to take the plunge.

About this time last year I noticed an announcement on the University of Buckingham‘s round-up email. It was a call for female scientists to take part in our local Soapbox Science event, to be held in Milton Keynes shopping centre in the summer of 2016. Although initially hesitant, I talked myself into applying, thinking it would be good for me to have to talk about my PhD research to a public audience.

One year on I thought I’d reflect on my Soapbox experience, in the hope of encouraging other female scientists to apply.

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CREATE joins MK Innovates STEM Festival: 7th/8th July 2017

Creativity ‘special issue’ – call for participation!

**Novel Approaches for Studying Creativity in Problem-Solving and Artistic Performance – a Frontiers in Psychology Research Topic, coming out in March 2018**

A conference on a shoestring, decided upon over a burger – some reflections!

The Psychology of Creativity: Building Impact, Skills and Collaboration.

Just 15 days to our conference!

‘From Elephants to Uh-ohs’: Soapbox Science one year on