TAY 602 - Creativity in Research: Getting to a Research Question

Course Description

Description

Where do research ideas come from? How do researchers come up with novel questions? How do researchers take their curiosities and formulate them into a project?

Identifying a research topic and developing a research question can be one of the toughest steps in the research process. In this session, you will be provided with strategies to develop creativity, identify an area of interest, narrow a broad topic into a productively-focused one, and construct a research question.

Instructors: Mindi Summers, Jen Cuthbertson, and Kyla Flanagan

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Develop skills to promote creativity in research and question generation, including brainstorming (divergent thinking) and question selection (convergent thinking)
• Practice integrating reflection and metacognition into your research design and practice
• Understand the importance of engaging and working with others to build your own creative capacity
• Describe ways to develop creative approaches
• Identify barriers to creativity in research
• Describe the work habits of a creative person

Delivery

This session will be held in-person.