{"id":1729,"date":"2024-09-25T20:26:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T20:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/team-research\/?post_type=projects&#038;p=1729"},"modified":"2024-09-25T20:26:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T20:26:30","slug":"uga-innovation-creativity-and-design-thinking-research-community","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/team-research\/projects\/uga-innovation-creativity-and-design-thinking-research-community\/","title":{"rendered":"UGA Innovation, Creativity, and Design Thinking Research Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1727295970786{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1579011887505{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1727295985004{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"site-title\"><span style=\"color: #ba0c2f;\">Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research Pre-Seed Program<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=&#8221;bg_color&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1595865578984{margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;}&#8221; bg_color_value=&#8221;#004e60&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1578671862861{background-color: #004e60 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1608562510322{margin-left: 10px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">UGA Innovation, Creativity, and Design Thinking Research Community<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1578595037141{margin-right: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;558&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;right&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1609863849434{margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;border: 0px initial !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1595855041843{margin-top: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The University of Georgia has a strong innovation ecosystem. It is a NSF I-Corps site, and has\u00a0numerous programs, such as The Innovation Gateway, The Innovation Bootcamp, Idea\u00a0Accelerator, Entrepreneurship Program, and UGA\u2019s Society of Entrepreneurs to name a few.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Those programs are intended to foster development and implementation of innovative ideas. In their decision to leverage these numerous opportunities, UGA created an Innovation District that is intended to serve as a bridge between the campus and local community and provide numerous experiential learning opportunities for students. These numerous programs, along with the highly entrepreneurial culture of Athens, provide excellent opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, one critical element that is missing in this eco-system is an initiative that would focus on creating a strong research agenda around innovation, creativity, and Design Thinking and obtaining grant funding for research projects in these important areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We are proposing to create an interdisciplinary team of researchers, faculty members, and staff\u00a0who share interest in basic and applied research in innovation, creativity, and design thinking. As\u00a0of now, this work is happening in silos, across individual departments, without any partnerships\u00a0and collaborations among faculty members, that would allow capitalizing on practice, skills and\u00a0knowledge that our faculty members have in their specialized areas. During the first year, UGA\u00a0Innovation, Creativity, and Design Thinking Research Community would like to start developing\u00a0UGA\u2019s interdisciplinary research agenda on innovation, creativity, and design thinking by taking\u00a0these steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">Grow the team by identifying people across departments who have innovation, creativity, and Design Thinking as their research, teaching, and practice foci.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Organize monthly meeting opportunities in order to develop insights about most fertile areas for research \u2013 basic and applied. Some of the areas that were identified are: creative confidence and efficacy among students who take Design Thinking classes, effectiveness\/outcomes of Design Thinking process, creative problem solving, creative cognition, harnessing technology to solve social problems, social entrepreneurship, consulting projects).<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Identify funding opportunities across different disciplines and create a shared list of those funding opportunities (management, social work, education, nonprofit management, I&amp;E ecosystems, neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, etc.)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Toward the end of the year, create working clusters focusing on specific research areas identified during monthly meetings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">This proposal seeks funding to (1) Facilitate the formation of the \u201cResearch Community\u201d\u00a0focused on making innovation a standard in research and developing community solutions;\u00a0and (2) Leverage this \u201cResearch Community\u201d to identify and publish multiple research proposals\u00a0developed for federal, foundation, and state funding. Ultimately, through these efforts, UGA will\u00a0be known for its line of interdisciplinary research on innovation, creativity, and Design Thinking.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4>Team Lead<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Kristina Jaskyte Bahr<\/strong><br \/>\nSchool of Social Work<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:kjaskyte@uga.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kjaskyte@uga.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Team Members<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Anna Abraham<\/strong><br \/>\nCollege of Education<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adrienne Baldwin-White<\/strong><br \/>\nSchool of Social Work<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jaime Camelio<\/strong><br \/>\nCollege of Engineering<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don Chambers<\/strong><br \/>\nTerry College of Business<\/p>\n<p><strong>Susan Cohen<\/strong><br \/>\nTerry College of Business<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crystal Leach<\/strong><br \/>\nIndustry Collaborations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Potter<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity Experiential Learning<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dee Warmath<\/strong><br \/>\nCollege of Family and Consumer Sciences<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timothy Burg<\/strong><br \/>\nOffice of STEM Education<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenay Beer<\/strong><br \/>\nCollege of Public Health[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-1729","projects","type-projects","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/team-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/1729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/team-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/team-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projects"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/team-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/team-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/team-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}