Kelly posted this on the PGRS MIE Facebook page, so a lot of you have probably seen it, or at least seen the link. I have just watched it and found it very interesting, but also\u00a0personally challenging. One of Richard’s 4 ‘C’s for the PhD – which all of you who have the privilege of having him as one of your supervisors will have heard – is ‘Creativity’. I feel I have struggled to be creative this year in terms of my PhD. I came with a topic and way to research it which hasn’t actually changed a huge amount. I have often felt unable to ‘think outside the box’, so perhaps this is why I feel challenged. I haven’t worked out the implications of what I have just heard, or how to work it through, but I did jot down this one line from the presentation:<\/p>\n
\u00a0Creativity needs \u2018openness to new ideas, tolerance to ambiguity, mental fluidity and hunger to find the difficult path, hunger to find the new challenges\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The idea of\u00a0\u00a0‘tolerance to ambiguity’ has been going\u00a0round my head recently in relation to my data collection, so\u00a0maybe that’s where I’ll start …<\/span><\/p>\n