Research
The research need
In the world we are living and working - a world that needs to deal with complexity, uncertainty, volume and speed and where innovation and creativity are needed to anticipate change - we need people with different strengths and capabilities successfully working together to solve complex engineering problems.
The research questions
Individual
- How do we create goal setting and action setting processes that create individual, shared and collective responsibility?
- How do we measure the impact of these outcomes?
- How do we develop the reflective practice that supports lifelong learning in teams?
Team
- How do we measure effective team work? Particularly unpacking differences in impact of cooperative behaviour vs better outcomes/products
- What are the more challenging interpersonal and thinking skills that VUCA workplaces require?
- How can we create learning experiences that develop these skills?
- How do we create experiences that develop social responsibility? What is the impact of developing teamwork skills on this?
Leaders
- What are the tools we need to provide for students who want to learn about leading to optimise team performance?
Research projects
1. Using STEM to unlock the power of problem-solving approaches for learning.
2. Understanding students' experiences of fairness in team formation and team dynamics processes.
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way ”. The same can be said of underperforming teams.