RCAHR Visiting Lecturer Experience

RCAHR Visiting Lecturer Experience

Tagline
Instilling a human-centred mindset within the RCA's Human Resources department
Topic
Employee Experience
Education
Internal Improvement
Team
Benedetta Locatelli, Geetika Kejriwal, Saitej Pisupati, Sharanya Ramesh, Yinong Xin, Ziwei Liu
My Roles
Researcher, Workshop Designer & Facilitator
Solution overview
1. A research report describing the experiences and painpoints from users of the RCA's HR department 2. A service design 101 workshop with HR employees at the RCA.
Partner
Royal College of Art (HR department)
Initial Brief
Define the issues faced by visiting lecturers in working at the RCA
Timeframe:
2 weeks, Spring 2020
Methods & Tools
Service Safaris
Journey Mapping
User Interviews
Co-creation Workshops
Training
Research Report Development

Goals:

👁️
Investigating the interaction between lecturers, professors during probational period, students with dyslexia, and external examiners with the HR department.
🛠️
Presenting findings and running a workshop to teach and empower staff to improve on their own workflow through design thinking

Approach overview:

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Understanding

Recruiting & Interviewing Users: Visiting Lecturers, External Examiners, and Students with Dyslexia
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Synthesizing

Building Journeys and personas, synthesizing pain-points.
Workshop screencapture
Workshop screencapture

Empowering

Building & Conducting a 2 day workshop for HR department employees to create ideas based on the research, giving them the tools to improve their own work experience
 

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