Meet the scientists!

I’ve looked at things like enhancing creativity at work, wellbeing and compared personal change processes found in traditions ranging from therapy through self-help to spiritual practice. I’m also interested in the way personality may mediate development. Some of my written work is covered on http://www.open.ac.uk/oubs/people-and-partners/people-profile.php?staff_id=268 though its not up to date. If you google Jane Henry or Jane Henry Open University and parapsychology or creative management or experiential learning or positive psychology you’ll find some of my stuff. You’ll find some of my blogs on wellbeing and managing on the BBC website. You can find some of my videos and audios on iTunes university, check out the Open University pages there. There’s one on Chinese culture for example. I also started a subgroup within the British Psychological Society (the professional organisation for psychologists) on Consciousness and Experiential Psychology to gather together scientists round the country who are interested in the same kind of thing as me, google bps/cep or warwick/cep to find out about that. You can find my books on Amazon. My interests are quite wide, many scientists stick to a narrower range of topics.

My work day generally begin by checking email, answering it, then some combination of the following: go to a meeting, deal with post, write, admin, teach, manage, conduct research, read online and in print. Often one day is mainly teaching, another research and another admin and management. Research may be desk research checking out work in the field online, setting up and conducting interviews or surveys or analysing data, writing reports and disseminating the findings. 

I’d employ a research assistant to help analyse some of my data on creative style. It’d involve sorting data and mainly using descriptive and other statistics on a computer. It’d give them an idea of whats involved in this type of social science.