Chapter 1: Launch: Teams, Purpose & Community
Begin your journey by understanding the purpose of the programme and the role you’ll play within it.
You’ll meet your team, explore the challenge space, and begin to think about impact, ethics, and responsibility. This session sets the foundation for how you’ll work together over the coming weeks.
Focus:
- Team formation
- Understanding purpose and impact
- Setting expectations and roles
Chapter 2: Seeing the System
Start to explore the bigger picture.
You’ll map the systems surrounding your challenge, identifying key stakeholders, services, and relationships. This helps you move beyond surface-level problems to understand how things are really connected.
Focus:
- Systems thinking
- Stakeholder mapping
- Identifying early assumptions
Chapter 3: Community Insight & Fieldwork Preparation
Prepare to engage with the real world.
This session builds your confidence in speaking with people, asking the right questions, and gathering meaningful insight. You’ll design your approach and plan your fieldwork.
Focus:
- Interview and engagement skills
- Designing research approaches
- Planning real-world conversations
Chapter 4: Defining Outcome Gaps
Turn insight into clarity.
You’ll analyse what you’ve learned and begin identifying gaps, what should be happening, but isn’t. This is where problems become clearer and more focused.
Focus:
- Insight analysis
- Identifying outcome gaps
- Introduction to measuring impact
Chapter 5: Constraints & System Reality
Understand what’s possible, and what isn’t.
You’ll explore the real-world constraints that shape your challenge, including capacity, risk, and governance. This ensures your ideas are grounded and realistic.
Focus:
- Constraints and limitations
- Root causes
- Refining the problem definition
Chapter 6: Designing Interventions
This is your creative turning point.
Using everything you’ve learned, you’ll generate ideas and develop solution concepts that respond directly to your challenge and context.
Focus:
- Ideation and creativity
- Problem–solution fit
- Concept development
Chapter 7: Community Validation & Co-Interpretation
Test your thinking.
You’ll share your ideas with others, including community voices, to validate your assumptions and refine your solutions.
Focus:
- Feedback and validation
- Testing assumptions
- Refining solutions
Chapter 8: Final Showcase
Bring everything together.
You’ll present your work, demonstrating your understanding of the problem, your insights, and your proposed solution.
Focus:
- Communicating your work
- Presenting to an audience
- Reflecting on impact and next steps
