About

Fostering creativity among students is important to develop their capacity to respond to new problems as professionals. This seminar will draw on lessons from cross-disciplinary teaching to discuss ways to overcome barriers to enabling creativity, including heightened student stress and the current restrictions on gatherings.

The opportunity to step outside traditional course structure, and practicalities of facilitating collaborative creativity when people are physically apart, such as interactive group workspaces, balancing zoom meetings with emails, will be discussed.

Please email Dr Susan Pennings at caphia.policy@gmail.com to register, with the email subject line "Creativity Webinar".

Presenters

Dr Beck Davis is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Art and Design, ANU. Her research focuses on design studies, examining design teams and how they collaborate and respond to complex problems. Dr Davis has experience leading cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary design projects, and developing novel teaching methods for nurturing creative thinkers and interfacing them with industry. She's currently establishing the ANU Design Studio, a design-led enterprise using design methods as a tool to define pathways for innovation. The ANU Design Studio is focused on design for impact, emphasising projects that contextualise global wicked challenges.

Dr David Sargent is Creative Director of Liveworm, a work-integrated learning incubator within the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Liveworm operates as a working design studio for students to engage with a broad range of ‘real world’ projects for not-for-profit, cultural, educational, and small to medium commercial clients. As a researcher, David is interested in how creative design practice can engage, communicate, and spark social change. Twitter: @davidsargent_

By day, Dr Erin Walsh is a research fellow at the Population Health Exchange (PHXchange), and by night she is a freelance scientific illustrator. Drawing on her background in psychology, her research focus is using visualisation to maximise knowledge generation, co-production, and implementation in population health. She is an associate fellow of the Higher Education Academy and 2017 CAPHIA early career teaching award winner (in partnership with Dr. Cathy Day), and currently convenes the population health course "Life course approaches to human ageing". Learn more: negaleg.com/index.php/research/