Vlad Glaveanu

Full Professor of Psychology & Director DCU Centre for Possibility Studies, Dublin City University

Dublin

Research Expertise

Sociocultural psychology
possibility studies
creativity
technology
education

About

Social scientist and educator trained at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. International expert on topics related to creativity, learning, technology, collaboration, migration, and culture. Founder of the transdisciplinary field of Possibility Studies. Author of Creativity: A Very Short Introduction and The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory with Oxford University Press and Wonder: The Extraordinary Power of an Ordinary Experience with Bloomsbury Press. Consultant or invited expert on creativity and innovation for organisations and companies such as OECD, UNESCO, the Lego Foundation, the International Baccalaureate, Climate KIC, among others. Currently Full Professor in the School of Psychology and Director of the DCU Centre for Possibility Studies at Dublin City University and Professor II at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology, University of Bergen. Trainer for Talent Collection, Romania. Founder and President of the Possibility Studies Network, https://possibilitystudies.org and editor of Possibility Studies and Society (Sage).

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Rewriting the Language of Creativity: The Five A's Framework
Review of General Psychology
2013
Paradigms in the study of creativity: Introducing the perspective of cultural psychology
New Ideas in Psychology
2010
Distributed Creativity: What Is It?
SpringerBriefs in Psychology
2014
Advancing Creativity Theory and Research: A Socio‐cultural Manifesto
The Journal of Creative Behavior
2019
Creativity as a Sociocultural Act
The Journal of Creative Behavior
2015
Principles for a Cultural Psychology of Creativity
Culture & Psychology
2010
Creativity as action: findings from five creative domains
Frontiers in Psychology
2013
Educating which creativity?
Thinking Skills and Creativity
2018
Creativity As Cultural Participation
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
2010
How are we creative together? Comparing sociocognitive and sociocultural answers
Theory & Psychology
2011
Creativity, identity, and representation: Towards a socio-cultural theory of creative identity
New Ideas in Psychology
2014
Children and creativity: A most (un)likely pair?
Thinking Skills and Creativity
2011
A Sociocultural Theory of Creativity: Bridging the Social, the Material, and the Psychological
Review of General Psychology
2020
What Can be Done with an Egg? Creativity, Material Objects, and the Theory of Affordances
The Journal of Creative Behavior
2012
Creative Experience: A Non-Standard Definition of Creativity
Creativity Research Journal
2020
How artists create: Creative process and multivariate factors
Learning and Individual Differences
2013
The Psychology of Creativity: A Critical Reading
Creativity: Theories – Research – Applications
2014
A Review of Creativity Theories
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity
2019
Awe Enhances Creative Thinking: An Experimental Study
Creativity Research Journal
2018
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity across Domains
Unknown Venue
2017
Habitual Creativity: Revising Habit, Reconceptualizing Creativity
Review of General Psychology
2012
Revisiting the “Art Bias” in Lay Conceptions of Creativity
Creativity Research Journal
2014
On Third Generation Activity Theory: Interview With Yrjö Engeström
Europe’s Journal of Psychology
2012
Rethinking Creativity
Unknown Venue
2014
The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture Research
Unknown Venue
2016
Thinking through Creativity and Culture
Unknown Venue
2017
The possible as a field of inquiry
Europe’s Journal of Psychology
2018
The Possible
Unknown Venue
2020
The Street Art of Resistance
Resistance in Everyday Life
2017
The Difference That Makes a ‘Creative’ Difference in Education
Creativity Theory and Action in Education
2016
Through the Creator's Eyes: Using the Subjective Camera to Study Craft Creativity
Creativity Research Journal
2012
Engineering students’ use of creativity and development tools in conceptual product design: What, when and how?
Thinking Skills and Creativity
2017
Is the Lightbulb On? Social Representations of Creativity in a Western Context 1
Thinking through Creativity and Culture
2017
Creativity and Folk Art: A Study of Creative Action in Traditional Craft 1
Thinking through Creativity and Culture
2017
Creating Creativity: Reflections from Fieldwork
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
2010
Creativity and epistemologies of the South
Culture & Psychology
2015
Distributed Creativity as Political Expression: Youth Responses to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election in Online Affinity Networks
Journal of Communication
2018
The creativity maze: Exploring creativity in screenplay writing.
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
2014
Potential in Creativity
Creative Learning in Digital and Virtual Environments
2020
Malevolent Creativity and Social Media
Creative Learning in Digital and Virtual Environments
2020
Same but Different? Distributed Creativity in the Internet Age
Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications
2016
Craft
Encyclopedia of Creativity
2020
Creativity in Perspective: A Sociocultural and Critical Account
Journal of Constructivist Psychology
2017
Making Sense of Refugees Online: Perspective Taking, Political Imagination, and Internet Memes
American Behavioral Scientist
2018
Decentring the Creative Self: How Others Make Creativity Possible in Creative Professional Fields
Creativity and Innovation Management
2014
Creativity — A New Vocabulary
Unknown Venue
2016
Creativity in Context: The Ecology of Creativity Evaluations and Practices in an Artistic Craft
Psychological Studies
2010
Sociocultural Perspectives on Creativity, Learning, and Technology
Creativity Theory and Action in Education
2018
Meta-Intelligence: Understanding, Control, and Interactivity between Creative, Analytical, Practical, and Wisdom-Based Approaches in Problem Solving
Journal of Intelligence
2021
Handbook of Imagination and Culture
Oxford Scholarship Online
2017
Are people working together inclined towards practicality? A process analysis of creative ideation in individuals and dyads.
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
2019
Creativity and Wonder
The Journal of Creative Behavior
2017
Image Analysis: An Interactive Approach to Compositional Elements
Qualitative Research in Psychology
2013
QALYs vs DALYs vs LYs gained: What are the differences, and what difference do they make for health care priority setting?
Norsk Epidemiologi
2009
Measuring creativity across cultures: Epistemological and methodological considerations.
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
2019
Affective mobilities: migration, emotion and (im)possibility
Mobilities
2021
Social Media Responses to the Pandemic: What Makes a Coronavirus Meme Creative
Frontiers in Psychology
2021
Perspectival Collective Futures: Creativity and Imagination in Society
Imagining Collective Futures
2018
Cultural Perspectives on Creativity
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity
2019
Affordance
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible
2022
Political Imagination, Otherness and the European Crisis
Europe’s Journal of Psychology
2015
An Overview of Creativity Theories
Creativity
2021
Paradoxes of “creativity”: Examining the creative process through an antenarrative lens
The Journal of Creative Behavior
2017
The Palgrave Handbook of Social Creativity Research
Unknown Venue
2019
Creative Imagination
Oxford Scholarship Online
2017
A Culture‐Inclusive, Socially Engaged Agenda for Creativity Research
The Journal of Creative Behavior
2017
Psychology in the post-truth era
Europe’s Journal of Psychology
2017
Creativity, Learning and Technology: Opportunities, Challenges and New Horizons
Creativity Research Journal
2020
Towards a New Construction of Radical Democracy: A Exploration of a Road of Radicalization of Democracy beyond Capitalism
MARXISM 21
2010
Distributed and Participatory Creativity as a Form of Cultural Empowerment: The Role of Alterity, Difference and Collaboration
Cultural Psychology of Education
2017
Art and Social Change: The Role of Creativity and Wonder
Street Art of Resistance
2017
The Status of the Social in Creativity Studies and the Pitfalls of Dichotomic Thinking*
Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications
2015
Widening our understanding of creative pedagogy: a North–South dialogue
Education 3-13
2015
Naish, John Paull, (died 13 April 1964), Chief Oriental Reader, University Press, Oxford
Who Was Who
2007
The Creative Self in Dialogue
The Creative Self
2017
Taking the perspective of others: A conceptual model and its application to the refugee crisis.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
2018
From Individual Agency to Co-agency
Constraints of Agency
2014
The function of ornaments: A cultural psychological exploration
Culture & Psychology
2014
Constructing public worlds: Culture and socio-economic context in the development of children’s representations of the public sphere
Culture & Psychology
2013
Mobilities and Human Possibility
Unknown Venue
2020
Making the CASE for shadow creativity.
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
2022
The value of the arts and creativity
Cultural Trends
2009
Theorising context in psychology: The case of creativity
Theory & Psychology
2014
A Multiple Feedback Methodology for the Study of Creativity Evaluations
Journal of Constructivist Psychology
2012
Bridging History and Social Psychology: What, How and Why
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
2012
A Sociocultural Perspective on Imagination
The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination
2020
Creativity
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity
2019
Polyphonic Orchestration: The Dialogical Nature of Creativity
Creativity Theory and Action in Education
2019
Imagination at the Frontiers of Psychology
Oxford Scholarship Online
2017
Collective memory between stability and change
Culture & Psychology
2017
Creativity: A Very Short Introduction
Unknown Venue
2021
Creative Learning in Digital and Virtual Environments
Unknown Venue
2020
Thinking outside of the (Western) Box: Cultural Psychology Perspectives on Creativity in Education
The Journal of Creative Behavior
2024
Possibility Thinking Scale: An initial psychometric exploration
Possibility Studies & Society
2024
Who is afraid of the Cheerful Robot? Revisiting Mills Fairchild on Politics and Culture (1958)
Unknown Venue
2024
In Quest of Creativity: Three Paths toward an Elusive Grail
Creativity Research Journal
2022
Artificial Intelligence & Creativity: A Manifesto for Collaboration
The Journal of Creative Behavior
2023
Possibility Spaces: An invitation to foster transformative experiences of the possible
Possibility Studies & Society
2023
The new science of possibility
Possibility Studies & Society
2023
The creativity ethos: A palette of benevolent processes and outcomes
Possibility Studies & Society
2023
Thinking Wide and Narrow
The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition
2023
Possibility studies: A manifesto
Possibility Studies & Society
2022
The Embodied Journey of an Idea: An Exploration of Movement Creativity in Circus Arts
The Journal of Creative Behavior
2022
Artificial Intelligence & Creativity: A manifesto for collaboration
Unknown Venue
2023
Societies of the Possible
Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures
2022
Building off creativity to move from gifted to gifting
Gifted Education International
2021
Co-Creating the Real: A Transdisciplinary Dialogue
Qualitative Inquiry
2021
Cognition stays wild: A commentary on Ross and Vallée-Tourangeau’s Rewilding Cognition
Journal of Trial and Error
2021
Internet Memes as Partial Stories: Identifying Political Narratives in Coronavirus Memes
Social Media + Society
2021
The Creativity Matrix: Spotlights and Blind Spots in Our Understanding of the Phenomenon
The Journal of Creative Behavior
2019
“The principles are good, but they need to be integrated in the right way”: Experimenting with creativity in elite youth soccer
Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
2020
(Un)Sustainable Creativity? Different Manager-Employee Perspectives in the Finnish Technology Sector
Sustainability
2020
Exploring the multifaceted role of creativity in an elite football context
Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health
2019
Being other: Intersubjectivity, allocentrism and the possible
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
2019
Avances en la teoría e investigación de la creatividad: Un manifiesto sociocultural
UNIPLURIVERSIDAD
2019
Creativity as a developmental resource in sport training activities
Sport, Education and Society
2017
Socializing Giftedness: Toward an ACCEL-S Approach
Roeper Review
2017

Education

London School of Economics and Political Science

PhD, Social Psychology / July, 2012

London

Experience

Dublin City University

Full Professor and Director of the DCU Centre for Possibility Studies / August, 2022Present

Webster University Geneva

Head of Department of Psychology and Director of the Webster Center for Creativity and Innovation / September, 2017August, 2022

Aalborg University

Associate Professor / September, 2012August, 2017

University of Bergen

Adjunct Professor at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology (SLATE) / January, 2017Present

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