University of Chester
Annual Staff Conference
11th September 2014
Creativity and Innovation in HE:Enhancing Learning
http://www.chester.ac.uk/staff-conference
Annual Staff Conference
11th September 2014
Creativity and Innovation in HE:Enhancing Learning
http://www.chester.ac.uk/staff-conference
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Keynote presentation
What Drives and Nourishes Creativity in Educational Development & Innovation in Universities? Norman Jackson Universities are permanently involved in change as they respond and adapt to the forces, challenges and opportunities in the world around and within them. Some of this is orchestrated from the top but much of it is grown from the bottom. In order to innovate on any significant scale universities need to stimulate, harness and focus the collective will, imagination, energy and creative capability of their staff. But accomplishing significant change in a university is a 'wicked problem': the problem of how and what to change is often ill-defined and ambiguous, it is usually contested, and it is typically associated with strong moral, political, ideological and professional opinions and values. Trying to bring about significant change in a university can be a messy and emotional business. Drawing on current research into the ways in which creativity features in development in higher education and a recent study of how a university attempted to engage with this challenge through a three year strategic change programme, and other studies of creativity in development processes, the presentation will examine beliefs about creativity and its role in development processes and explore the conditions and factors that enable creativity and innovation to flourish in universities. Over 20 factors and conditions have been identified as being important to nourishing personal creativity and enabling educational innovators to accomplish significant educational change. At the organisational level, these factors can be embraced by eleven principles that seem to be important in encouraging staff to be creative in order to accomplish development and innovation. The challenge is to see how relevant these perspectives, factors and principles are to the University of Chester? PRESENTATION to be posted 11/09/14 
BACKGROUND PAPERS
Creativity in Development
Subject Perspectives on Creativity
Recent and current research being undertaken by the presenter 
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What drives and nourishes creativity at the University of Chester? Summary Report of Staff Survey https://www.surveymonkey.net/results/SM-KMMPXP7L/ If you would like to complete the survey please use the questionnaire below. The survey will remain open until
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