Course info

The course is fully booked! Please sign up at the waiting list. 

For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration, Katrine Søndergaard kes@adm.aau.dk.

The topic is creative thinking in research. It offers a deep understanding of creative thinking together with a toolbox and guidelines the student can use to make room for creative thinking and methodology in own research. The systematic use of creative thinking can be particularly helpful in the generation of new ideas, hypotheses, experimental designs and in data interpretation as well as in the communication of research.

Learning objectives:

- To get a firsthand experience with creative thinking and realize the impact it can have on your normal thinking process.
- To understand that the way we think determines what we can be aware of and how we interpret our results
- To understand why and how creative thinking influence knowledge production in research
- To be able to think more flexibly and original, while doing research
- To understand how you can integrate creative thinking in your existing research method – both in theory and in practice

Teaching methods:

The course is organized as a 2-day workshop consisting of a mix of small lectures and exercises that train creative
thinking in research. The workshop will focus on getting a firsthand experience with creative thinking in relation to own
scientific work. There will also be time for reflecting upon how creative thinking can be implemented in own research process
as well as collaboration with other researchers. After the workshop, participants will have access to both analogue and digital
training exercises to continue training and development of a creative research practice, both individually and in peer groups.

Criteria for assessment:

Assignment where the participant experiment with- and reflect on the use of creative thinking in own research process

Organizers and lecturers: Søren Hansen, ssha@plan.aau.dk