BITE: Recipes for Remarkable Research

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BITE: Recipes for remarkable research is an edited field book capturing the research, learning and experiences of an international network of scholars studying effective and creative research environments. The book encapsulates what it is that enables remarkable research, and offers, as Professor Lizbeth Goodman says, “practical, evidence-based instantiations of ideas and innovations” as well as theoretical knowledge. It is set out as a recipe book, with supporting academic papers and case studies.
The recipes present research and advice from a wide range of subject areas in an instantly recognisable format. Each recipe enables the reader to take practical steps to understand and develop their own research at all levels, from personal solo work and group collaborations, to an institutional and architectural dimension.
Whether you are a PhD student, early career researcher, professor or decision-maker, these recipes, case studies and papers invite you to consider research habits, approaches and environments in interesting and different ways.
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Prepare your mind
Feed your mind to increase your creativity
Pages: 28–30
Hack your head
Improve your cognitive skills through deliberate practice
Pages: 31
Let your mind wander
Incubate your ideas before you go to sleep
Pages: 32–33
Defocus your thinking
Relax your brain to make deeper connections
Pages: 34–36
Instant willpower
Improve your concentration by blocking out distractions
Pages: 37–38
Think with your hands
Use your body to think and enhance creativity
Pages: 39–41
Constraint as a seed for creativity
Inject innovation into your thinking by limiting your choices
Pages: 42–44
Automatic writing
Explore your unconscious
Pages: 45–47
Get into the flow
Prepare to experience creative flow
Pages: 48–49
Keep loving your thesis (even when it hates you)
Overcome writer’s block through free writing
Pages: 50–51
My work is not me
Detach yourself from your work to safeguard your confidence
Pages: 52–53
How to love several projects at once
Learn to manage your time effectively by being selective
Pages: 54–56
It’s ok to have a stationery fetish
Make your pens an extension of your thoughts
Pages: 57–58
Just describe
‘Say what you see’ to understand a place
Pages: 59–61
Relieving attention fatigue
Recharge your mental batteries productively
Pages: 62–65
What to listen to while you work
What you hear affects what you think
Pages: 66–68
Roll the dice
Encourage serendipity by taking a fresh look at your research environment
Pages: 69–70
Working in a shared environment
Establish office etiquette early
Pages: 71–72
Digital scholarship – start here
Dip your toe in digital scholarship
Pages: 73–75
Creating sensory-sensitive spaces
Identifying key parameters for research environment design
Pages: 76–84
Share what you made
Improve your ideas by sharing them online before publication
Pages: 102–104
Broadcast your ideas
Get your ideas out of your head and let them grow
Pages: 105–107
Sharing food
The quickest way to your colleagues’ hearts is through their mouths
Pages: 108–109
Nurturing your PhD students
How to help PhD students succeed
Pages: 110–113
How to make your team hate each other and you
An awful warning of how relationships can sour in a research group
Pages: 114–115
Research group as extended family
How to foster creativity and goodwill in your research team
Pages: 116–118
Death by form filling
An awful warning of how time-consuming administration can divert time away from productive thought
Pages: 119–120
Tina says: ‘Push!’
How to cope when your supervisor disappears
Pages: 121–122
Yes we can – sometimes
Empower researchers for effective research
Pages: 123–125
Can-do space
Facilitate the creativity of visiting researchers
Pages: 126–127
Oh, I thought you meant
How to improve communication with your supervisor
Pages: 128–130
Creativity crush
An awful warning of how easy it is to destroy group creativity using minimum effort
Pages: 131–132
Serendipity on the back of a napkin
Take advantage of good ideas from chance encounters
Pages: 133–134
‘How might we…’ space
Ask the right questions to generate creative answers
Pages: 135–136
Popup whitespace hubs
Spread ideas with regular cross-fertilising events
Pages: 137–138
Sweet spot
A process for imaginative horizon planning
Pages: 139–140
Visualising the problem
Group problem solving through a visual and kinaesthetic process
Pages: 141–143
Just breathe
Breathe in and out for creative nirvana
Pages: 144–145
Research interest visualisation
Use digital visualisation to identify common research interests
Pages: 146–147
Version control: managing collaboration on academic documents
Prevent tears and tantrums with some basic housekeeping
Pages: 148–150
Creative spaces for interdisciplinary research
Use the arts to explore familiar research territory and expand research options
Pages: 151–152
Idea room
Dedicate a room to rigorous group creativity
Pages: 153–155
How-what space
mapping epistemic gradients in interdisciplinary research
Pages: 170–175
Educational Researchers and their students
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