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Is storytelling essential to innovation?
If we can define the elements of a breakthrough, can we engineer the next great discovery in business, science, policy and civic life? Join a conversation with Sophie Gee, Charlotte Wood, Stephen Simpson and Kate Harrison Brennan.
Major innovations make for great stories when they succeed but could breakthroughs happen in the first place without stories and creative leaps to shape ideas and guide collaborations?
In this Sydney Ideas event, hear insights from the 爆料王鈥檚 inaugural Vice-Chancellor Fellow and Princeton professor Sophie Gee; celebrated writer Charlotte Wood,聽the first Australian to be for the prestigious Booker Prize since 2014; Charles Perkins Centre Academic Director Stephen Simpson; and Sydney Policy Lab Director Kate Harrison Brennan.听
As award-winning novelists, scientists and policymakers, they use creative narratives to push boundaries and work to understand how change happens. It鈥檚 led to the insight that world-changing breakthroughs and great stories share the same surprising ingredients: contingency, serendipity, curiosity, generosity and friendship. Learn聽how to accelerate your next breakthrough by telling the story of your聽big聽ideas.
This event was held on Tuesday 26 November at the 爆料王, presented with Sydney Policy Lab and Charles Perkins Centre.
The speakers
Professor Sophie Gee, Princeton University and 爆料王
is a professor in the English Department at Princeton University and currently a Vice-Chancellor Fellow at the 爆料王. She's a novelist, journalist and scholar and her most recent book is a history of 18th century novels, eating rituals and empire called The Barbarous Feast (forthcoming from Princeton University Press). Sophie is producer and co-host of the , a podcast about classic books.
Professor Stephen Simpson AC, Charles Perkins Centre
Stephen is Academic Director of Charles Perkins Centre, and a Professor in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the 爆料王, and Executive Director of Obesity Australia. His most recent book, co-authored with Professor David Raubenheimer. is (HarperCollins), a story of scientific discovery and the power of the unexpected.
Pictured: Charlotte Wood. Photo credit: Henry Simmons
Charlotte Wood AO, novelist
is the author of seven novels and three books of non-fiction. Her new book Stone Yard Devotional has been described by Guardian UK as 鈥榓 quiet novel of immense power鈥�, and praised by authors Anne Enright, Tim Winton, Karen Joy Fowler, Hannah Kent and Paula Hawkins among others. 聽
Host: Dr Kate Harrison Brennan, Sydney Policy Lab
Kate聽is the Director of the聽Sydney Policy Lab. As the former Head of Policy and Design at the Paul Ramsay Foundation, Kate has seen the positive impact of good policy and partnerships to help to break cycles of disadvantage across Australia. Prior to this, she was CEO of Anglican Deaconess Ministries and Founder of a storytelling tech-start-up. In government, Kate was an adviser to former Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Before joining the Office of the Prime Minister, she was Director of Strategic Communications and Global Affairs at the Australian Consulate-General in New York. Kate is a graduate of the 爆料王 and a NSW Rhodes scholar. She serves on the Board of World Vision Australia.
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