{"id":18019,"date":"2026-01-27T09:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=18019"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:50:19","slug":"creativity-with-a-purpose-developing-your-research-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2026\/01\/27\/creativity-with-a-purpose-developing-your-research-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity with a Purpose: Developing your Research Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">A new three\u2011workshop programme designed to support Research Associates in moving from interesting ideas to a clear, confident and compelling research direction. Participants will gain practical tools to refine their ideas, articulate their research vision, and develop a narrative they can reuse for applications, interviews and fellowship proposals.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a0<b>Dates:<\/b><br \/>\n\u2022 23 April (online, morning)<br \/>\n\u2022 12 May (in person, all day)<br \/>\n\u2022 9 June (online, morning)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a0Designed and facilitated by\u00a0<b>64 Million Artists<\/b>\u00a0(Leading Researchers programme)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>More info and application here:<\/b>\u00a0<u><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/forms.cloud.microsoft\/e\/2U84kVdpzN. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.cloud.microsoft%2Fe%2F2U84kVdpzN&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAlison.Brown%40newcastle.ac.uk%7C68211c7b7542456af2ff08de5d820798%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C639051010235649543%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=gx7DHsP20fVrpSwa%2B5ELwlduX6ln%2F6a2FEOso4wERmk%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\"><span class=\"x_MsoSmartlink\">Creativity with a Purpose: Developing your Research Direction \u2013 Fill out form<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>Deadline:<\/b>\u00a0<b>4 March, 11:59pm<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new three\u2011workshop programme designed to support Research Associates in moving from interesting ideas to a clear, confident and compelling research direction. Participants will gain&#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2026\/01\/27\/creativity-with-a-purpose-developing-your-research-direction\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1183,1184],"class_list":["post-18019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-creativity-with-a-purpose","tag-developing-your-research-direction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18033,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019\/revisions\/18033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}