Rate My Professor Cara Wrigley

Her research specializations encompass design innovation, design thinking, emotional design, interdisciplinary design education, and applications in health, medicine, defence, and business models. Wrigley has authored or edited seven books, including Research Handbook on Design Thinking (2023, edited with Karla Straker), Creativity in Military Complexity: Design, Disruptors and Defence Forces (2025, with Murray Simons), Design Innovation and Integration (2021, with Karla Straker and Erez Nusem), Design Innovation for Health and Medicine (2020, with Karla Straker and Erez Nusem), and Affected: Emotionally Engaging Customers in the Digital Age (2018, with Karla Straker). She has published more than 100 refereed journal articles in journals such as Design Studies, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Review of Education, and Design for Health. As Editor-in-Chief of Design Studies, Elsevier's leading design research journal, she shapes academic discourse. Wrigley has secured over $60 million in competitive grants, including from the Australian Research Council, Medical Research Future Fund, and industry partners like BiVACOR and Brisbane Airport Corporation. She has delivered invited keynotes at conferences including the European Mechanical Circulatory Support Summit (2019, Vienna) and the American Society of Artificial Internal Organs 65th Annual Conference (2019, San Francisco), and serves as an Australian Research Council reviewer. She has received Australian Good Design Awards.