Prototype chapter – Design thinking for re-imagining student voice, student engagement and student experience in Higher Education: the case of the Warwick Secret Challenge 

Author: Dr Bo Kelestyn 
The Warwick Secret Challenge (WSC) is a problem-solving workshop with elements of design thinking used as an effective tool for student engagement and student learning experience enhancement, complementing the more traditional capturing of student voice such as focus groups and student staff liaison structures.  
The chapter will enquire into: How to get started with design thinking for student voice, student engagement and student experience design? How to shift institutional culture via a series of small experiments with design thinking? How to involve students in the design of their experience in ways that inspire long term engagement? How to co-create design thinking experiences with students?

Biography

Bo is an expert in design thinking with a diverse teaching and consulting portfolio. She works as an Associate Professor at Warwick, and as an Innovation Consultant at Sprint Valley. She has created and leads modules on innovation and design thinking, as well as The Guardian Masterclass on design thinking. Bo is the creator of the Warwick Secret Challenge, a problem-solving workshop with elements of design thinking, which has become a key methodology to tackle innovation challenges at Warwick. Bo launched a limited podcast series on this topic in partnership with AdvanceHE.