Cara Broadley

• Research Fellow
• Design-Institute of Design Innovation

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Book or Monograph

Flourishing Times: Participation Issue

McAra-McWilliam, Irene, McHattie, Lynn-Sayers and Broadley, Cara (2015) Flourishing Times: Participation Issue. The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.

Flourishing Times: Personhood and Collective Wellbeing

McAra-McWilliam, Irene, McHattie, Lynn-Sayers and Broadley, Cara (2014) Flourishing Times: Personhood and Collective Wellbeing. The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.

Article

Co-design is Not Enough: Reflections on Creative Collaborative Public Sector Innovation to Deliver Net Zero Policy Outcomes in Scotland

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. 1-14. ISSN 2574-1292

Advancing Asset-based Practice: Engagement, Ownership, and Outcomes in Participatory Design

Broadley, Cara (2020) Advancing Asset-based Practice: Engagement, Ownership, and Outcomes in Participatory Design. The Design Journal, 24 (2). pp. 253-275. ISSN 1460-6925

Materiality Matters: Exploring the use of design tools in innovation workshops with the craft and creative sector in the Northern Isles of Scotland

Broadley, Cara, Champion, Katherine and McHattie, Lynn-Sayers (2017) Materiality Matters: Exploring the use of design tools in innovation workshops with the craft and creative sector in the Northern Isles of Scotland. The Design Journal, 20 (1). S550-S565. ISSN 1460-6925

Participatory design for democratic innovation: participation requests and community empowerment in Scotland

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

Co-design at a Distance: Context, Participation, and Ownership in Geographically Distributed Design Processes

Broadley, Cara and Smith, Paul (2018) Co-design at a Distance: Context, Participation, and Ownership in Geographically Distributed Design Processes. The Design Journal, 21 (3). pp. 395-415. ISSN 1460-6925

The Imagination and Public Participation: A Deweyan Perspective on the Potential of Design Innovation and Participatory Design in Policy-Making

Dixon, Brian, McHattie, Lynn-Sayers and Broadley, Cara (2021) The Imagination and Public Participation: A Deweyan Perspective on the Potential of Design Innovation and Participatory Design in Policy-Making. CoDesign, 18 (1). pp. 151-163. ISSN 1571-0882

Craft, textiles, and cultural assets in the Northern Isles: innovation from tradition in the Shetland Islands

McHattie, Lynn-Sayers, Champion, Katherine and Broadley, Cara (2018) Craft, textiles, and cultural assets in the Northern Isles: innovation from tradition in the Shetland Islands. Island Studies Journal, 13 (2). pp. 39-54. ISSN 1715-2593

The Lancaster Care Charter

Rodgers, Paul A., Innella, Giovanni, Bremner, Craig, Broadley, Cara, Coxon, Ian, Cadomuro, Alessia, Carleklev, Stephanie, Chan, Kwan, Dilnot, Clive, Fathers, James, Fennell, Jac, Fremantle, Chris, French, Tara, Henriques, Diogo, Lloyd Jones, Peter, Kettley, Richard, Kettley, Sara, Khan, Mashal, Logge, Karl, Archer-Martin, Jen, McHattie, Lynn-Sayers, Pulley, Robert, Shahar, Dina, Teal, Gemma, Tewari, Saurabh, Treadaway, Cathy, Tsekleves, Emmanuel, Moradi Valadkeshyaei, Hamed, Ventura, Jonathan, Watt, Trudy A., Wiltse, Heather and Winton, Euan (2019) The Lancaster Care Charter. Design Issues, 35 (1). pp. 73-77. ISSN 0747-9360

Conference or Workshop Item

Material Futures: Crafting Circular Conversations

Ballie, Jen, McHattie, Lynn-Sayers and Broadley, Cara (2016) Material Futures: Crafting Circular Conversations. In: Circular Transitions: A Mistra Future Fashion Conference on Textile Design and the Circular Economy, 23-24 November 2016, London,UK.

Island Exports: Cultural probe creation as a method of design organisation and collaboration

Broadley, Cara (2012) Island Exports: Cultural probe creation as a method of design organisation and collaboration. In: 28th EGOS Colloquium, 2 sub-theme 09: Artifacts in Art, Design, and Organization, July 2012, Helsinki, Finland.

Visualising practice-led relationships: a toolkit for dissemination?

Broadley, Cara (2014) Visualising practice-led relationships: a toolkit for dissemination? In: Visual In-sights Conference 2014-01-30, 26th – 27th June 2014, Newcastle University, UK.

From Participation to Collaboration: Reflections on the Co-Creation of Innovative Business Ideas

Broadley, Cara, Champion, Katherine, Johnson, Michael and McHattie, Lynn-Sayers (2016) From Participation to Collaboration: Reflections on the Co-Creation of Innovative Business Ideas. In: The 50th Anniversary DRS Conference 2016, Future-Focused Thinking, 27-30 Jun 2016, Brighton, UK.

Materiality Matters: Exploring the use of design tools in innovation workshops with the craft and creative sector in the Northern Isles of Scotland

Broadley, Cara, Champion, Katherine and McHattie, Lynn-Sayers (2017) Materiality Matters: Exploring the use of design tools in innovation workshops with the craft and creative sector in the Northern Isles of Scotland. In: 12th European Academy of Design Conference – Design for Next, 12–14 April 2017, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome.

Transforming Patient Experience: The Need for a Design Innovation Approach to Health Web Science and Medicine 2.0

Cumming, Grant, French, Tara, McHattie, Lynn-Sayers and Broadley, Cara (2014) Transforming Patient Experience: The Need for a Design Innovation Approach to Health Web Science and Medicine 2.0. In: Medicine 2.0: World congress on social media, mobiles apps, Internet/Web 2.0, Malaga.

The subtleties of care: illuminating relational care through design

French, Tara, Teal, Gemma and Broadley, Cara (2017) The subtleties of care: illuminating relational care through design. In: Does Design Care? An International Workshop of Design Thought and Action, 12-13 September 2017, Imagination, Lancaster University.

Designing Empathy: Ritual Respect

McHattie, Lynn-Sayers and Broadley, Cara (2014) Designing Empathy: Ritual Respect. In: Enabling Empathy in Health & Care: Design Methods & Challenges: A CHI 2014 workshop, 27th April, 2014, Toronto, Canada.

Contextualising Citizens: Design-Led Approaches To Visualising Community Ecologies, Building Interventions And Mobilising Citizen Participation

Smith, Paul and Broadley, Cara (2016) Contextualising Citizens: Design-Led Approaches To Visualising Community Ecologies, Building Interventions And Mobilising Citizen Participation. In: MEDIATIONS: Art & Design Agency and Participation in Public Space, 21-22 Nov 2016, London, UK.

Artefact

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): Repository. [Artefact]

Monograph

Supporting Effective Community Engagement through Participatory Design (SEE–PD): Project Report

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.

Understanding Participation Requests: Informing User Experience, Guidance, and Legislation

Broadley, Cara (2024) Understanding Participation Requests: Informing User Experience, Guidance, and Legislation. Technical Report. The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.

PARliament Engagement: Applying Participatory Action Research & creative approaches to the committee scrutiny process within the Scottish Parliament

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.

Curated Care: Enhancing and Embedding Care in Highland Communities

Broadley, Cara, McHattie, Lynn-Sayers and McAra-McWilliam, Irene (2015) Curated Care: Enhancing and Embedding Care in Highland Communities. Project Report. The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.

Leapfrog Summer School 2017 Report: Exploring Community Engagement for Research: Power, Impact, & Collaboration

Broadley, Cara and Mcara, Marianne (2017) Leapfrog Summer School 2017 Report: Exploring Community Engagement for Research: Power, Impact, & Collaboration. Project Report. Leapfrog.

Leapfrog 2016 Summer School Report: Action Research, Engagement, and Co-design

Broadley, Cara and Murphy, Emma (2017) Leapfrog 2016 Summer School Report: Action Research, Engagement, and Co-design. Project Report. Leapfrog.

Flourish: Personhood and Collective Wellbeing

McAra-McWilliam, Irene, McHattie, Lynn-Sayers and Broadley, Cara (2014) Flourish: Personhood and Collective Wellbeing. Project Report. Scottish Universities Insight Institute, Glasgow.

Wellbeing by Design: Creativity and Collaboration in Practice-based Inquiry – Project Report

Mcara, Marianne and Broadley, Cara (2015) Wellbeing by Design: Creativity and Collaboration in Practice-based Inquiry – Project Report. Project Report. The Glasgow School of Art.

Designing Distributed Community Participation

Mcara, Marianne, Broadley, Cara, Simms, Harriet, Prosser, Zoe and Teal, Gemma (2021) Designing Distributed Community Participation. Project Report. GSA, Glasgow.

The Potential of BIM and Digital Building Standards Compliance in Scotland

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.

Net Zero Leadership and Low Carbon Construction: Workshop Programme 2023

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).

Leapfrog: Peer-to-peer Community Engagement

Smith, Paul, Mcara, Marianne, Broadley, Cara and Johnson, Michael (2017) Leapfrog: Peer-to-peer Community Engagement. Project Report. ImaginationLancaster and The Glasgow School of Art.