Vlad Glăveanu

Dublin City University, Ireland and University of Bergen, Norway

Biography

Vlad Glăveanu, PhD, is Full Professor of psychology in the School of Psychology, Dublin
City University, and Professor II at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology,
University of Bergen. He is the founder and president of the Possibility Studies Network
(PSN).

His work focuses on creativity, imagination, culture, collaboration, wonder, possibility,
and societal challenges. He edited the Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture (2016)
and the Oxford Creativity Reader (2018), co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity
Across Domains (2017) and the Oxford Handbook of Imagination and Culture (2017),
authored The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory (Oxford University Press, 2020)

His research interests include creativity, innovation, imagination, curiosity, wonder, awe,
agency, serendipity, utopias and dystopias, anticipation, futures studies, counterfactuals,
culture, collaboration, perspective-taking, technology, social media, creative learning,
education, and possibility studies