2022 KIE Conference, 26-28 July, Virtual
Keynotes – E. Paul Torrance International Roundtable on Creative Thinking:
Sandra W. Russ, Case Western Reserve University: PRETEND PLAY, CREATIVITY, AND COPING: COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE PROCESSE
Sandy Russ is a clinical child psychologist, Distinguished University Professor and Louis D. Beaumont University Professor at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA, where she has been working since 1975. Sandra holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and specialized in child psychology. Sandy’s research focused on understanding how pretend play is involved in child development and in child psychotherapy. She has worked with her students to develop a measure of pretend play that assesses both cognitive and affective processes. She has also carried-out a number of studies that have investigated the relationship between pretend play and areas of adaptive functioning such as creativity, coping, and emotional understanding. Sandy is the author of Pretend Play in Childhood: The Foundation of Adult Creativity (2013), American Creativity Association.
Selected Presentations from 2020 KIE Conference, 21-23 July, Virtual
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Selected Presentations from 2019 KIE & WEF Collaborative Conference, 2-4 September, Dubai, UAE
Dr Hazel Ganqa & Dr Rose Masha. “First Time Entry: Students’ Perspectives on Their Transition from High School, to University”
Nworgu, Q, C. “A critical examination of the impact of Social Media on online small businesses owned and run by women entrepreneurs: A case study of London-based female E-entrepreneurs.”
Dr Rebecca Natrajan. “Intrapreneurship in Action: A Case study of successful intrapreneurs from south India”.
Sledge, D. (2019) “The Creativity and Innovation of Frank Furness”, a presentation for the KIE-WEF Collaborative International Conference, 2-4 September, Dubai, UAE.
Dr Elizabeth Achinewhu. “A critical analysis of why some professionals who try to combine job roles of academic and being a business owner fail or succeed – Learning from experience.”
BC Ujah-Ogbuagu & IM Mankilik. “Barriers and internal influencers of online presence leverage by the Nigerian MSMEs: a case study of Abuja and Lagos”.
Andrew Case. “Creativity and Coping with Chronic Disease”.
Festus Edobor. “The paradox of entrepreneurial marketing and the traditional marketing strategy”
Hilton, L.S.G. (2019). “Academic women and the challenges they face; their stories then and now”. A Presentation for the KIE-WEF Collaborative International Conference, 2-4 September, Dubai, UAE.
Selected Presentations from early conferences
- After event review: A venue for the development of leadership self-efficacy for college students
- The role of Twitter in B2B Knowledge Exchange and Innovation
- Training Towards Innovation and Creativity: A comparison Between Employee Attitudes
- Creative insight and the role of feedback: the case of adolescents
- Paradox of Internet and Tradition: Dialogical Integration of Technology and Indigenous Knowledge
- Strategic Orientation and Innovation Patterns: A Study of SMEs vs. Large Companies in the Italian Yogurt Industry
- Big Data Science Education and the PIPAE Methodology for Big Data Analytics
- Strategies Enhancing the Public Health Role of Community Pharmacists in the UK
- Learning with industry in Oman: The corporate partner perspective
- Non-invasive method of measuring intracranial compliance using phase contrast MRI
- Destroying Creativity How? Why?
- Student Interest Group: Working Collaboratively With Students for Student Development
- The 4E’s Socratic Model – a framework to foster creativity in teams
- Entrepreneurship and Higher Education in Anglophone Caribbean: Challenges and Realities
- Expert System For Professional Orientation
- To Build a Better Mousetrap…: Knowledge, Innovation and Enterprise
- An Analysis of Innovation Programmes in Wales, the Case of the Technium Network
- Shifting paths of pharmaceutical innovation: Implications for the global pharmaceutical industry
- Transaction Cost Leveling to Reduce Incumbent’s Difficulty in Innovation: A Heuristic Approach through Critical Review
- Knowledge Development and Ownership in a Global Society: Reflections on Educational Progress in Anglophone Caribbean
- A New Paradigm to help accelerate the Transformation of Resource Rich Nations into Sustainable Knowledge Economies
- Nurturing entrepreneurial talent in turbulent times: the servant- leadership challenge
- Big Data Analytics: Challenges and What Computational Intelligence Techniques May Offer
- Application of Predictive Analytics for better alignment of Business and IT
- Large, Distributed Computing Infrastructures – Opportunities & Challenges – updated 15 Oct 2013
- Business Models Visualizatio
- Models of Knowledge and Big Data
- Creative Sector Cross-Innovation