Cara Broadley
Cara Broadley
- Research Fellow
- Job Title
- Research Fellow
- School or Academic Area
- School of Innovation and Technology
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Innovation and Technology
- C.Broadley@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- Hill Street, Glasgow, G3 6RN
Biography
I am a mid-career practice-based researcher working at the intersection of social design and participatory design, set
against the context of equality and democracy, public service reform in society, and policy design.
my research interests are concerned with unpacking the role of the designer in addressing complex
societal challenges in place-based, cultural, and environmental contexts; the implications of developing and applying
creative, visual, and tools, techniques, and approaches to support the participation of people and communities; and
how such practices can forge stronger connections between academia, practice, and policy.
Research Interests
design and participatory governance, democratic innovation, creative community engagement.
Latest Additions
- Broadley, Cara and Dixon, Brian (2026) Making decisions real: designing artefacts to enable democratic localism and inform approaches to participatory policy making. CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts. pp. 1-23. ISSN 1571-0882 (Print); 1745-3755 (Online)
- Abbott, Daisy, Broadley, Cara and Missaghian-Schirazi, Sara (2025) Polyvocal Histories through Augmented Reality. ICERI2025 Proceedings, 18th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. pp. 1294-1304. ISSN 2340-1095
- Broadley, Cara, Simms, Harriet and Khare, Prisha (2025) Supporting Effective Community Engagement through Participatory Design (SEE–PD): Repository.
- Broadley, Cara, Simms, Harriet and Khare, Prisha (2025) Supporting Effective Community Engagement through Participatory Design (SEE–PD): Project Report. Project Report. The Glasgow School of Art.
- Broadley, Cara, Prosser, Zoe and Stewart, Lydia (2025) Co-design is Not Enough: Reflections on Creative Collaborative Public Sector Innovation to Deliver Net Zero Policy Outcomes in Scotland. Policy Design and Practice. pp. 258-271. ISSN 2574-1292
- Broadley, Cara, Burn-Murdoch, Ailsa and Black, Laura (2025) PARliament Engagement: Applying Participatory Action Research & creative approaches to the committee scrutiny process within the Scottish Parliament. Project Report. The Glasgow School of Art.
- Prosser, Zoe, Smith, Madeline, Broadley, Cara, Stewart, Lydia, Cochrane, Ruth and Stoney, Charlotte (2024) Net Zero Leadership and Low Carbon Construction: Workshop Programme 2023. Project Report. Built Environment Smarter Transformation (BE-ST).
- Prosser, Zoe, Broadley, Cara and Gardiner, Sophie (2024) The Potential of BIM and Digital Building Standards Compliance in Scotland. Technical Report. Building Standards Division, The Scottish Government.
- Broadley, Cara (2024) Understanding Participation Requests: Informing User Experience, Guidance, and Legislation. Technical Report. The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.
- Broadley, Cara and Dixon, Brian (2022) Participatory design for democratic innovation: participation requests and community empowerment in Scotland. Policy Design and Practice, 5 (4). pp. 444-465. ISSN 2574-1292
