Sneha is a design researcher with expertise in participatory design. Her work brings together people with diverse perspectives – lived experience, practice, policy and research – to collaboratively explore complex social and systemic issues around health, wellbeing and care.

The key ethos underpinning Sneha’s research is about enabling genuine participation from people with diverse lived experiences across all stages of co-design. Her research portfolio spans a range of topics and contexts – a number of these addressing trauma, stigma and inequalities in health and care, with a nuanced exploration of intersectionality, plurality and agonism in participatory design.

Sneha has led a number of research projects at GSA collaborating with citizens and diverse stakeholders across the Government, National Health Service (NHS), social care, industry and third sector. She is part of the research team at the School of Innovation and Technology leading co-design and service innovation within the Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre funded by the Scottish Government and Scottish Funding Council. She has acted as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on projects funded through the TRIUMPH Network and Scottish Universities Insights Institute. She is currently Co-Investigator on the following UKRI funded projects:

‘EDIFY – Eating disorders: delineating illness and recovery trajectories to inform personalised prevention and early intervention in young people’ – Aug 2021 - Aug 2025 (cross-council initiative led by MRC)

'REALITIES in Health Disparities: Researching Evidence based Alternatives in Living, Imaginative, Traumatised, Integrated, Embodied Systems' – Nov 2022 - Feb 2024 (cross-council initiative led by AHRC)

Sneha is a Supervisor on the Master of Research (MRes) and PhD programmes at GSA.

Researcher profile: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/2163184