Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Educator, author, artist and keynote speaker Robert Kelly is a recognized leader in the fields of collaborative creativity, creativity development, social innovation, strategic design, and transformative educational ecosystems with creativity as their primary rationale. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary and has been Academic Coordinator of the Collaborative Creativity for Social Innovation & Strategic Design graduate program in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. Robert has been an invited visiting scholar at several postsecondary institutions for his work in the field of collaborative creativity. As a changemaker, he is a fervent advocate of educational transformation to adapt to rapid sociocultural, economic and technological change and to empower all to create positive change for the benefit of others. His most recent volume Collaborative Creativity: Educating for Creativity Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship explores a new, transformative ecosystem for educational practice. This volume is accompanied by a supporting educator resource book entitled Collaborative Creativity Idea Book for Educators: Activities, Tactics and Strategies for Building a Collaborative Culture of Creativity. His new books in progress are focused on a) Assessing creativity and the creativity development of individuals and collaborative organizations and b) Defining the concept of creativity in the age of artificial intelligence.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
DEFINING CREATIVITY in the AGE of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
ASSESSING CREATIVITY & CREATIVITY DEVELOPMENT of INDIVIDUALS & COLLABORATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY, INNOVATION DESIGN, & SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
CHANGE MAKING and EDUCATIONAL TRANSFORMATION
CREATIVITY and DESIGN LEADERSHIP