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Independence Interrupted

Creativity, Context and the ‘Independent Scholar’

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Re-imagining the Creative University for the 21st Century

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Social and networked conceptions of creativity highlight the key role of collaboration and connection making in the work involved in creating and imagining new knowledge. With governments around the world keen to harness the potential of research to foster innovation and economic growth, the question arises as to whether the research degree experience is preparing graduates to be creative, or mobilise creativity, in this way.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Graduate Research, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Robyn Barnacle (Senior Research Fellow)

  2. School of Graduate Research, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Jennifer Sinclair (Research Fellow)

  3. School of Graduate Research, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Denise Cuthbert (Dean)

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  1. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Tina Besley

  2. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Michael A. Peters

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Barnacle, R., Sinclair, J., Cuthbert, D. (2013). Independence Interrupted. In: Besley, T., Peters, M.A. (eds) Re-imagining the Creative University for the 21st Century. Creative Education Book Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-458-1_7

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