damian gordon creative techniques: in your research
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Damian Gordon
Creative Techniques: In Your Research
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Contents
Individual Creativity CoRT Mindmaps How to think like Leonardo Thinking about words
Group Creativity Six Thinking Hats The Wisdom of Crowds
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CoRT
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CoRT Thinking Programme
PMI = Plus, Minus, Interesting CAF = Consider All Factors OPV = Other People’s Views FIP = First Important Priorities C&S = Consequences & Sequels AGO = Aims, Goals, Objectives APC = Alternatives, Possibilities, Choices
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Introduction
Literature Review
ProjectDesign
Analysis – Quantitative &
Qualitative
Conclusions & Future Work
Thesis Structure
Project Description
AGO, CAF, FIP
CAF, OPV, PMI
CAF, OPV, APC, PMI
PMI, AGO
C&S, PMI, APC, OPV
Appropriate Techniques
CAF, OPV, APC, PMI
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Introduction
Literature Review
ProjectDesign
Analysis – Quantitative &
Qualitative
Conclusions & Future Work
Thesis Structure
Project Description
AGO, CAF, FIP
CAF, OPV, PMI
CAF, OPV, APC, PMI
PMI, AGO
C&S, PMI, APC, OPV
Appropriate Techniques
CAF, OPV, APC, PMI
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Mindmaps
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Mindmaps
Do your supervisor a favour, and when you give them a proposal, give them a mindmap of it as well.
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Literature
Design
Organisation
Technology
ResearchQuestion
Evaluation
Mindmaps
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How to Think like Leonardo
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Seven Principles
1. Curiosità
2. Dimonstrazione
3. Sensazione
4. Sfumato
5. Arte/Scienza
6. Corporalita
7. Connessione
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Curiosità Realise your Ideal Hobby
How will I benefit from this pursuit? What are my goals? What resources will I need? Where can I find a good teacher? How much time will I devote to it? What obstacles must I overcome? How can I make money from my hobby?
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Curiosità Doing your thesis
How will I benefit from this pursuit? What are my goals? What resources will I need? Where can I find a good teacher? How much time will I devote to it? What obstacles must I overcome? How can I make money from my research?
For your MSc
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Curiosità Build a Lexicon
Codex Trivulzianus is full of them, define words, new vocabulary, foreign terms, neogolisms.
Arduous – difficult, painful Alpine – of the region of the Alps Archimandrite – a leader of a group
A large vocabulary is a powerful ally
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e.g. you are doing research on Communities of practice
What other keywords do we need to look out for? Network of practice Virtual community Virtual Ethnography Virtual team Community-driven knowledge management
Curiosità
For your MSc
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Dimonstrazione Explore attitudes to mistakes
What did you learn from school about making mistakes?
What did your parents teach you about making mistakes?
What is the biggest mistake you have ever made? What mistakes do you repeat? What role does fear of making mistakes play in your
life, your work, at home? Are you more likely to make mistakes of commission,
or omission?
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Dimonstrazione Explore attitudes to mistakes
In terms of your research... If you don’t get the research answer you expect, is
this a problem? What is a mistake in research? Should I tell my supervisor if I’ve made a mistake in
my experiment?
For your MSc
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Sensazione Visualization Visualization is a technique that Leonardo
used a great deal in his work, and is now used by top athletes and business executives.
It is simply a matter of imagining (practicing) a performance before you do it, to allow your brain to match the imagination.
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Sensazione Visualization Use this for practising your proposal
presentation and your final presentation Use this for practising interviews
For your MSc
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Sensazione Learn how to draw
Identify approaches Get good pencils and paper Take lessons or get a book Doodle Scribble Etc.
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Sensazione Draw diagrams Draw models Draw technical architectures
For your MSc
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Sfumato Count the number of times in a day you
use absolute terms such as “totally”, “always”, “certainly”, “must”, “never”, and “absolutely”
Consider how you close conversations, do you typically end conversations with either a statement or question?
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Sfumato In your thesis avoid using terms such as
“totally”, “always”, “certainly”, “must”, “never”, and “absolutely”
Also do not use the terms “prove”, “proof” or “proven”
For your MSc
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Arte/Scienza
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Arte/Scienza
For your MSc
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Connessione Setting goals – the SMART way
S PECIFIC M EASURABLE A CCOUNTABILITY R EALISTIC AND RELEVENT T IME LINE
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Connessione Setting goals – the SMART way
S PECIFIC M EASURABLE A CCOUNTABILITY R EALISTIC AND RELEVENT T IME LINE
For your MSc
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Thinking about words
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synonyms
acronyms
polysemy
single-conceptprinciple
neologisms
monosemyabbreviations
quasi-synonyms,or near-synonyms
pseudo-synonyms,or false synonymsantonyms
phraseologism
hyponyms
hypernyms
collocation Cross-
references
UNDERSTANDINGWORDS
tautonyms
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Six Thinking Hats
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Six Thinking Hats
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Six Thinking Hats in the Thesis:Make sure each chapter has:
BLUE: Introduction and overview of topic
WHITE: Facts and Figures about the Topic
YELLOW: Positive outcomes of Topic
BLACK: Negative outcomes of Topic
GREEN: Interesting outcomes of Topic
RED: Personal, emotional and people-oriented aspects of topic
WHITE: Review of new facts uncovered
BLUE: Summary and finish up
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The Wisdom of Crowds
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The Wisdom of Crowds
The key factor that causes Groupthink is when the crowd is homogeneous.
If all members think and act the same this can lead to groupthink, as can be seen in highly regulated organisations like the army.
To harness the power of the wisdom of crowds you really need diversity, the nay-sayers, the moaners and complainers, and the crazy optimists, the fools, the happy-go-luckies – you need the whole mix.
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The Wisdom of Crowds
You are doing a taught MSc, harness the power of the group, Meet regularly as a group during the
dissertation module, e.g., twice a month Swap papers, references, and models Discuss issues in your research Compare war stories about supervisors
For your MSc
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Conclusions
Creative Techniques: In Your Research
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Conclusions
I’ve presented a few ways you can use the techniques we have explored for your research
Don’t be limited by my suggestions, use the techniques in as wide and as many ways as you can think of.
For your MSc