Sabine Junginger

Sabine Junginger holds dual academic roles: as a Research Fellow at The Hertie School Berlin and a Professor in Design Arts and Creative Industries at Northumbria University. Her work bridges design, policy, and technology, particularly focusing on UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 16 and 17). She actively explores design's role in government, public services, digital transformation, and inter-generational fairness.

• Affiliations: Northumbria University (Primary)
• Research Themes: Policy design, digital governance, organizational change, and HCI-policy collaboration

Her research emphasizes systemic transformation through design methodologies, including provotyping, digital probes, and human-centered approaches. Recent work highlights collaborations between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and policy-making to address ethical and societal challenges. She also advocates for integrating design thinking into public service redesign and agile governance frameworks.

• Impact: 367 citations, 15+ peer-reviewed publications since 2014
• Activities: Organized workshops on digital offboarding, policy-design intersections, and HCI-policy collaboration

She actively mentors PhD students in topics like SDG integration and digital transformation in public sectors. Her work often appears in journals like Design Issues and conference proceedings such as CHI and DRS.