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Karl Jeffries

Senior Lecturer in Design

School of Art, Design & Fashion

Design Creativity, Creativity Assessement, Design Research, Consensual Assessment Technique, Skills Research, Distance Learning

Dr Karl K. Jeffries is a design lecturer and researcher at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). For the past decade, he has been the Course Director for UCLan’s master's distance learning programme in creative thinking. His work draws together research from the psychological sciences and arts & design sectors, with a specialist focus on testing the relationship between competencies and creativity. He was the first researcher to publish a systematic review of the Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT) in relation to design research and to resolve issues of CAT reliability as a measure of graphic design creativity. His interest in creativity research began over twenty years ago as a means to inform creative training for design professionals, postgraduate, undergraduate, and tertiary more...

PhD. Skills for Creativity in Graphic Design: Testing the relationship between visualisation, written comprehension, and graphic design creativity

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  1. Jeffries, Karl K. orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-8936-1800 (2011) Skills for creativity in games design. Design Studies, 32 (1). pp. 60-85. ISSN 0142-694X
  2. Jeffries, Karl K. orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-8936-1800 (2009) Skills for Creativity in Games Design (Part 1) Academic Conceptions of Creativity in Games Design. Project Report. University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.
  3. Jeffries, Karl K. orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-8936-1800 (2009) Skills for Creativity in Games Design (Part 2) Practitioner Conceptions of Creativity in Games Design. Project Report. University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.
  4. Jeffries, Karl K. orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-8936-1800 (2009) Skills for Creativity: A Comparison Between Academic and Practitioner Conceptions of Creativity in Games Design. In: Dialogues in Art & Design: Promoting and Sharing Excellence. Higher Education Academy, Brighton, UK, pp. 44-49.
  5. Jeffries, Karl K. orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-8936-1800 (2012) Amabile‘s consensual assessment technique: Why has it not been used more in design creativity research? In: 2nd International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2012), Glasgow.
  6. Jeffries, Karl K. orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-8936-1800, Zamenopoulos, Theodore and Green, Alison J. K (2016) Design Creativity, Technical Execution and Aesthetic Appeal: A Cat with Caveats (Part 2). In: The Fourth International Conference on Design Creativity (4th ICDC), November 2nd-4th, 2016, Atlanta, GA,.