Futures Thinking Series: reclaiming energy and purpose in research What you'll do This workshop offers space to slow down, reflect, and explore what brings energy or creative spark in research work, especially in times of fatigue or uncertainty. We’ll work with personal narratives, metaphors, materials and prompts, using futures methods for personal and career reflection. What we'll cover The workshop includes: Time to pause, reflect and recollect personal motivation and alignment Recollecting key personal strengths and sources of energy and their place in your work Relating present tensions and challenges in connection with others Spotting seeds or inklings of future possibility After this session, you'll be able to: This session puts no pressure on achieving outcomes. It offers a space for curiosity, reflection and reconnection amid present uncertainty and precarity. Important to know This workshop is part of the future thinking series of workshops. These workshops explore futures thinking as a creative and strategic tool for shaping research, career direction and academic practice. They use futures methods to support insight, vision creation, creativity, agency and strategic thinking. Each of the workshops are standalone but there will be themes which build across the workshops for participants who attend all the sessions. This session is facilitated by Emily Shipp. Book a place (UoE staff only) Tags Principal Investigators Research Staff Sep 17 2026 09.30 - 13.00 Futures Thinking Series: reclaiming energy and purpose in research A half day workshop for reconnecting with energy, curiosity, and creative spark in research, particularly during challenging or uncertain times. TBC This article was published on Monday 8 June 2026
Futures Thinking Series: reclaiming energy and purpose in research What you'll do This workshop offers space to slow down, reflect, and explore what brings energy or creative spark in research work, especially in times of fatigue or uncertainty. We’ll work with personal narratives, metaphors, materials and prompts, using futures methods for personal and career reflection. What we'll cover The workshop includes: Time to pause, reflect and recollect personal motivation and alignment Recollecting key personal strengths and sources of energy and their place in your work Relating present tensions and challenges in connection with others Spotting seeds or inklings of future possibility After this session, you'll be able to: This session puts no pressure on achieving outcomes. It offers a space for curiosity, reflection and reconnection amid present uncertainty and precarity. Important to know This workshop is part of the future thinking series of workshops. These workshops explore futures thinking as a creative and strategic tool for shaping research, career direction and academic practice. They use futures methods to support insight, vision creation, creativity, agency and strategic thinking. Each of the workshops are standalone but there will be themes which build across the workshops for participants who attend all the sessions. This session is facilitated by Emily Shipp. Book a place (UoE staff only) Tags Principal Investigators Research Staff Sep 17 2026 09.30 - 13.00 Futures Thinking Series: reclaiming energy and purpose in research A half day workshop for reconnecting with energy, curiosity, and creative spark in research, particularly during challenging or uncertain times. TBC This article was published on Monday 8 June 2026
Sep 17 2026 09.30 - 13.00 Futures Thinking Series: reclaiming energy and purpose in research A half day workshop for reconnecting with energy, curiosity, and creative spark in research, particularly during challenging or uncertain times.
