Creativity

Health & Medicine
As AI gets smarter, are we getting dumber?
There’s growing concern that an over-reliance on AI could lead to apathy and cognitive decline. So, what can we do to stay sharp in an AI-driven world?

Education
BMX teaches a valuable lesson: Success requires hard work and failure
BMX bike riding goes beyond physical fitness; enhancing mental health, social connectedness and personal growth

Business & Economics
Being creative can make you more popular at work
Creativity, especially when combined with demographic difference, helps build a well-connected workforce

Business & Economics
Can ethical leaders make teams more creative?
Research suggests that ethical leaders provide their teams with emotional confidence that helps to foster creativity

Arts & Culture
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
There’s no easy answer to writing great plays but part of the magic comes from empathy, experience and all that is wondrous and strange

Business & Economics
Every Sherlock needs a Watson (or two)
Creatives often need colleagues to be catalysts, but how can organisations identify and foster these catalysts – and can too much become cataclysmic?

Arts & Culture
The arts and Australia’s mental wellbeing
As we all recover from long COVID-19 lockdowns, the creative arts can support our mental health – but we need ongoing and joined up research to better understand its impact

Arts & Culture
The difficulty with measuring creativity
How do you go about measuring the multifaceted and unique human quality that is creativity without killing it completely? New research aims to do just that

Arts & Culture
The something in nothing
People have been suspicious of ‘nothing’ going back all the way to the mathematical idea of “zero.” Yet there is real value in “nothing” and we need to appreciate it more.

Arts & Culture
Book extract
Has Hollywood run out of original ideas?
With remakes of Mulan, Dune, The Witches and The Invisible Man all due out this year, a new book answers the big question: what justifies a remake?