Marissa Cummings

http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/profile/1593

Research Fellow and Innovation Designer

Innovation School

The Glasgow School of Art

Research Interests

digital, health and care, equity, stigma and trauma, storytelling

Research Profile

Marissa is a Research Fellow focusing on health, wellbeing, and equality. She has previously worked as a digital designer, software developer, researcher, and product manager.

Marissa’s research interests include digital interaction and user interface (UI) design, empowering marginalised communities through equity and inclusion, health storytelling, chronic illness, ageing, stigma, and trauma-informed participatory design.

Qualifications

MRes in Design (Glasgow School of Art)
MSc in Artificial Intelligence (University of Edinburgh)

Latest Additions

10 Years of Meaningful Co-design
McIntyre, Don, Teal, Gemma, Bruce, Angela, Raman, Sneha, Bradley, Jay and Cummings, Marissa (2023) 10 Years of Meaningful Co-design. Forres, 16 June 2023 [Show/Exhibition]
Design grief: participatory design activism for trauma, sadness, the unresolved, and the inevitable
Cummings, Marissa (2024) Design grief: participatory design activism for trauma, sadness, the unresolved, and the inevitable. In: Design4Health 2024, 25-27 June 2024, Sheffield, UK.
Navigating frailty: how can digital tools support holistic assessments and integrate care across sectors?
Cummings, Marissa, Dilworth, Lorraine, Teal, Gemma, Chute, Chaloner and Curl, Matthew (2024) Navigating frailty: how can digital tools support holistic assessments and integrate care across sectors? In: International Conference on Integrated Care ICIC24, 22-24 April 2024, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
A Divided Landscape: A relational, qualitative investigation of falls prevention technology and services with older people and professionals in North and South Lanarkshire
Cummings, Marissa, Lennon, Marilyn, Chute, Chaloner and Talbot, Ana (2024) A Divided Landscape: A relational, qualitative investigation of falls prevention technology and services with older people and professionals in North and South Lanarkshire. In: European Falls Festival 2024, 25-26 April 2024, St Julian’s, Malta.
Safe Spaces for Raw Research
Cummings, Marissa (2022) Safe Spaces for Raw Research. [Video]
Healing Fabulations: A dialogic methodology for digital codesign in health research
Cummings, Marissa and Teal, Gemma (2023) Healing Fabulations: A dialogic methodology for digital codesign in health research. CoDesign, 19 (1). pp. 74-90. ISSN 1571-0882
Patient co-design of digital health storytelling tools for multimorbidity: A phenomenological study
Cummings, Marissa, Bradley, Jay and Teal, Gemma (2022) Patient co-design of digital health storytelling tools for multimorbidity: A phenomenological study. Health Expectations, 25 (6). pp. 3073-3084. ISSN 1369-7625
See Me, Hear Me, Know Me: Digital Design for Health Storytelling
Cummings, Marissa (2021) See Me, Hear Me, Know Me: Digital Design for Health Storytelling. MRes thesis, The Glasgow School of Art.

Most Viewed Items

#	Item title
1	Patient co-design of digital health storytelling tools for multimorbidity: A phenomenological study	128	24
2	Healing Fabulations: A dialogic methodology for digital codesign in health research	100	17
3	Safe Spaces for Raw Research	33
4	Design grief: participatory design activism for trauma, sadness, the unresolved, and the inevitable	26
5	Navigating frailty: how can digital tools support holistic assessments and integrate care across sectors?	25
6	A Divided Landscape: A relational, qualitative investigation of falls prevention technology and services with older people and professionals in North and South Lanarkshire	21

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