The Bloomsbury Handbook of Design Management

Sabine Junginger is the Head of the Competence Center for Research into Design and Management at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (LUASA) in Switzerland. At LUASA she co-leads the research area "organisations and leadership" for the interdisciplinary theme cluster "digital transformation of the work environment". Her research explores the role of human-centered design in policymaking and policy implementation, increasingly in the context of digitalisation and e-government. She is Chairwoman of Politics for Tomorrow, Co-founder of the Swiss Service Design Network and academic advisor to a range of public sector innovation labs and innovation projects that include GovLab Austria, the European Forum Alpbach, the German University of Public Administration Sciences, Dataport, and the German ZOE Institute. She has been a Hertie School Fellow since 2009. She is co-editor of Designing Business and Management (Bloomsbury, 2016).

Rachel Cooper OBE is Distinguished Professor of Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University, UK. She is a Director of ImaginationLancaster, an open and exploratory design-led research centre conducting applied and theoretical research into people, products, places and their interactions, and also Chair of Lancaster institute for the Contemporary Arts. Professor Cooper's research interests cover: design thinking; design management; design policy; and across all sectors of industry, a specific interest in design for wellbeing and socially responsible design. She was founding editor of The Design Journal and also founding President of the European Academy of Design. She is currently President of the Design Research Society. She is co-editor of Design and Covid-19 (Bloomsbury, 2024).