Tara French

• Programme Director, Health and Wellbeing
• Design-Institute of Design Innovation

Link to Public Profile

Boys and their Toys

Barthels, Sanne and French, Tara (2014) Boys and their Toys. Project Report. Digital Health & Care Institute (DHI).

The Aesthetics of Prosthetic Greaves: Co-Design for Expressing Personal Identity

Blom, Jeroen and French, Tara (2018) The Aesthetics of Prosthetic Greaves: Co-Design for Expressing Personal Identity. Making Futures, 5. ISSN 2042-1664

The Aesthetics of Prosthetic Greaves: Co-Design For Expressing Personal Identity

Blom, Jeroen, French, Tara and Briscoe, Gerard (2017) The Aesthetics of Prosthetic Greaves: Co-Design For Expressing Personal Identity. In: Making Futures International Research Conference: Crafting a sustainable modernity towards a maker aesthetics of production and consumption, 21-22 September 2017, Plymouth College of Art, UK.

Interaction Space: Older Adults and in-Home Systems

Blom, Jeroen, French, Tara and Teal, Gemma (2016) Interaction Space: Older Adults and in-Home Systems. In: eTELEMED 2016, 24-28 Apr 2016, Venice, Italy.

Care 4.0: An Integrated Care Paradigm Built on Industry 4.0 Capabilities

Chute, Chaloner and French, Tara (2018) Care 4.0: An Integrated Care Paradigm Built on Industry 4.0 Capabilities. Working Paper. Digital Health and Care Institute.

Introducing Care 4.0: An Integrated Care Paradigm Built on Industry 4.0 Capabilities

Chute, Chaloner and French, Tara (2019) Introducing Care 4.0: An Integrated Care Paradigm Built on Industry 4.0 Capabilities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16. p. 2247. ISSN 1660-4601

User Requirements for Comanaged Digital Health and Care: Review

Chute, Chaloner, French, Tara, Raman, Sneha and Bradley, Jay (2022) User Requirements for Comanaged Digital Health and Care: Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24 (6). ISSN 1438-8871

Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on Practical Aspects of Health Informatics (PAHI 2015)

Cumming, Grant, French, Tara, Gilstad, Heidi, Jaatun, Ellen and Jaatun, Martin (2016) Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on Practical Aspects of Health Informatics (PAHI 2015). CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

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.

Health Web Science: Formulating Healthcare for the 21st Century A Health Web Metadata Curation Framework to Evolve a Behavioral Model for Preferable Health Outcomes

Cumming, Grant, Luciano, Joanne, Molik, David and French, Tara (2015) Health Web Science: Formulating Healthcare for the 21st Century A Health Web Metadata Curation Framework to Evolve a Behavioral Model for Preferable Health Outcomes. In: 3rd European Workshop on Practical Aspects of Health Informatics (PAHI 2015), 27th - 28th Oct 2015, Alexander Graham Bell Centre, Elgin, UK.

The future of post-reproductive health: The role of the Internet, the Web, information provision and access

Cumming, Grant, Morris, Edward, Simpson, Paul, French, Tara, Kahana, Eva, Luciano, Joanne and Molik, David (2016) The future of post-reproductive health: The role of the Internet, the Web, information provision and access. Post Reproductive Health, 22 (3). ISSN 2053-3691

Trust and provenance in communication to eHealth consumers

Cumming, Grant P., French, Tara, Hogg, Jamie, McKendrick, Doug, Gilstad, Heidi, Molik, David and Luciano, Joanne S. (2017) Trust and provenance in communication to eHealth consumers. In: The Digitization of Healthcare: New Challenges and Opportunities. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 189-203. ISBN 9781349951727

Formulating eHealth utilising an ecological understanding

Cumming, Grant P., McKendrick, Doug, Hogg, Jamie, French, Tara, Kahana, Eva, Molik, David and Luciano, Joanne (2017) Formulating eHealth utilising an ecological understanding. In: The Digitization of Healthcare: New Challenges and Opportunities. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 81-98. ISBN 9781349951727

Preassessment clinic interview and patient anxiety

Davidson, Stephen, McKendrick, Douglas and French, Tara (2016) Preassessment clinic interview and patient anxiety. Saudi Journal of Anesthesia, 10 (4). pp. 402-408. ISSN 1658-354X

Processing the method: Linking Deweyan logic and design-in-research

Dixon, Brian and French, Tara (2020) Processing the method: Linking Deweyan logic and design-in-research. Design Studies, 70. Art. 100962. ISSN 0142-694X

Promoting health and wellbeing through community singing: a people powered choir

French, Tara (2015) Promoting health and wellbeing through community singing: a people powered choir. In: Music as a Preventive Strategy for Public Health: Scottish Music and Health Network, 23 Oct 2015, Technology and Innovation Centre, Strathclyde University, UK.

Designing in Rural Highland Contexts: Exploring the Role of Technology in Facilitating Human Connections

French, Tara, Blom, Jeroen and Raman, Sneha (2016) Designing in Rural Highland Contexts: Exploring the Role of Technology in Facilitating Human Connections. In: The Eighth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, eTELEMED 2016, 24-28 April 2016, Venice, Italy.

Future Ambulance

French, Tara, Brooks, Elizabeth and Raman, Sneha (2014) Future Ambulance. Project Report. Digital Health & Care Institute (DHI).

Experience Lab: Breastfeeding

French, Tara and Hepburn, Leigh Anne (2017) Experience Lab: Breastfeeding. Project Report. Digital Health and Care Institute.

Bringing communities and care together: making human rights real through music

French, Tara and Lefevre, Yoni (2019) Bringing communities and care together: making human rights real through music. Project Report. Future Health and Wellbeing.

Building a shared strategic vision for health and social care in Moray

French, Tara and Lefevre, Yoni (2019) Building a shared strategic vision for health and social care in Moray. Project Report. Future Health and Wellbeing.

Making music meaningful in care homes

French, Tara and Lefevre, Yoni (2020) Making music meaningful in care homes. In: International Association of Music and Medicine (IAMM), 30-31 May 2020, Berklee Music and Health Institute, Boston (Virtual Online Conference).

Multidisciplinary working in health and social care

French, Tara and Lefevre, Yoni (2019) Multidisciplinary working in health and social care. Project Report. Future Health and Wellbeing.

Care 'in between': Exploring care needs between acute hospital and home

French, Tara, Lefevre, Yoni and Fegan, Sean (2020) Care 'in between': Exploring care needs between acute hospital and home. Project Report. Future Health and Wellbeing.

Engaging People with Lived Experience in Co-design of Future Palliative Care Services

French, Tara and Raman, Sneha (2021) Engaging People with Lived Experience in Co-design of Future Palliative Care Services. International Journal of Public Administration, 44 (9). pp. 778-789. ISSN 0190-0692

Virtual Hospice

French, Tara and Raman, Sneha (2015) Virtual Hospice. Project Report. Digital Health & Care Institute (DHI).

Co-designing future practice by integrating diverse knowledge and experiences in palliative care transitions

French, Tara, Raman, Sneha and Jindal-Snape, Divya (2018) Co-designing future practice by integrating diverse knowledge and experiences in palliative care transitions. In: Education and Social Work (ESW) Annual Conference 'Knowledge and Practice: What matters now?', 28 November 2018, Dundee University.

Future transitions in palliative care: care across the life course for people with life-limiting conditions

French, Tara, Raman, Sneha and Jindal-Snape, Divya (2019) Future transitions in palliative care: care across the life course for people with life-limiting conditions. Project Report. Scottish Universities Insight Institute.

Creatively exploring care home futures

French, Tara, Schauberger, Ute, Lefevre, Yoni, Roddy, Edel and Dewar, Belinda (2019) Creatively exploring care home futures. Project Report. Future Health and Wellbeing.

A Creative Future for Care at Home

French, Tara, Schauberger, Ute and Quacinella, Daniela (2018) A Creative Future for Care at Home. Project Report. Future Health and Wellbeing.

Creative Communities: Making the invisible, visible through creative expression of mental wellbeing in land and sea communities in Scotland

French, Tara and Speed, Chris (2020) Creative Communities: Making the invisible, visible through creative expression of mental wellbeing in land and sea communities in Scotland. Project Report. Future Health and Wellbeing.

Co-designing a digital directory of services

French, Tara and Teal, Gemma (2015) Co-designing a digital directory of services. In: The 5th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH), Berlin.

Design for empathy within participatory design approaches

French, Tara and Teal, Gemma (2016) Design for empathy within participatory design approaches. In: Cumulus Hong Kong 2016: Open Design for E-very-thing, 21-24 November 2016, Hong Kong Design Institute.

Directory App

French, Tara and Teal, Gemma (2015) Directory App. Project Report. Digital Health & Care Institute (DHI).

Transforming healthcare through design-led innovation

French, Tara and Teal, Gemma (2015) Transforming healthcare through design-led innovation. In: Design 4 Health Conference 2015, Sheffield.

The Box

French, Tara, Teal, Gemma and Blom, Jeroen (2016) The Box. Project Report. Digital Health & Care Institute (DHI).

Inspiring open designers of the future

French, Tara, Teal, Gemma, Blom, Jeroen, Tulloch, Angela and Moreira, Mafalda (2016) Inspiring open designers of the future. In: Cumulus Hong Kong 2016: Open Design for E-very-thing, 21-24 November 2016, Hong Kong Design Institute.

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.

Experience Labs: Co-Creating Health and Care Innovations Using Design Tools and Artefacts

French, Tara, Teal, Gemma and Raman, Sneha (2016) Experience Labs: Co-Creating Health and Care Innovations Using Design Tools and Artefacts. In: 2016 Design Research Society 50th Anniversary Conference, 27 - 30 Jun 2016, Brighton, UK.

Notification System

French, Tara, Teal, Gemma, Raman, Sneha and Blom, Jeroen (2014) Notification System. Project Report. Digital Health & Care Institute (DHI).

Making Technology Meaningful in Mental Health

French, Tara, Teal, Gemma and Thorup, Tine (2018) Making Technology Meaningful in Mental Health. In: British Council Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshop on Mental Health Technologies, 7 - 9 September 2018, Jinan, China.

EDIFY (Eating Disorders: Delineating Illness and Recovery Trajectories to Inform Personalised Prevention and Early Intervention in Young People): project outline

Hemmings, Amelia, Sharpe, Helen, Allen, Karina, Bartel, Heike, Campbell, Iain C., Desrivières, Sylvane, Dobson, Richard J.B., Folarin, Amos A., French, Tara, Kelly, Jonathan, Micali, Nadia, Raman, Sneha, Treasure, Janet, Abbas, Ruby, Heslop, Beck, Street, Tallulah and Schmidt, Ulrike (2022) EDIFY (Eating Disorders: Delineating Illness and Recovery Trajectories to Inform Personalised Prevention and Early Intervention in Young People): project outline. BJPsych Bulletin. pp. 1-9. ISSN 2056-4694 (Print), 2056-4708 (Online)

Experience Lab: Crossreach

Hepburn, Leigh Anne, Tulloch, Angela and French, Tara (2017) Experience Lab: Crossreach. Project Report. Digital Health and Care Institute.

Bringing Communities and Care Together: Evaluation Report

Johnson, Michael, French, Tara and Lefevre, Yoni (2020) Bringing Communities and Care Together: Evaluation Report. Project Report. The Glasgow School of Art.

Psychology of Improvisation: 'boogie away your barriers'

Lovatt, Peter and French, Tara (2016) Psychology of Improvisation: 'boogie away your barriers'. In: Concurrent improvisation across disciplines, 15-16 Jan 2016, University of Edinburgh.

Transforming Patient Experience: Health Web Science Meets Medicine 2.0

McHattie, Lynn-Sayers, Cumming, Grant and French, Tara (2014) Transforming Patient Experience: Health Web Science Meets Medicine 2.0. Medicine 2.0, 3 (1).

Are Anaesthetists Still Living in the Past?

McKendrick, Douglas, Moore, Charles, French, Tara and Cumming, Grant (2015) Are Anaesthetists Still Living in the Past? In: 3rd European Workshop on Practical Aspects of Health Informatics (PAHI 2015), 27th - 28th Oct 2015, Alexander Graham Bell Centre, Elgin, UK.

Patient Feedback for Revalidation: A Survey of Patient Preferences

Moore, Charles, McKendrick, Douglas and French, Tara (2015) Patient Feedback for Revalidation: A Survey of Patient Preferences. In: AAGBI Annual Congress 2015, 23–25 Sep 2015, Edinburgh, UK.

Exploring Online Health Information Seeking in Scotland

Moreland, Julia, French, Tara and Cumming, Grant (2016) Exploring Online Health Information Seeking in Scotland. In: Practical Aspects of Health Informatics (PAHI), 27-28 Oct 2015, Elgin, UK.

The prevalence of online health information seeking among patients in Scotland: a cross-sectional exploratory study

Moreland, Julia, French, Tara and Cumming, Grant P. (2015) The prevalence of online health information seeking among patients in Scotland: a cross-sectional exploratory study. JMIR Research Protocols, 4 (3). e85. ISSN 1929-0748

Designing a culture of resilience: Embedding innovation in health and social care integration in Scotland

Raman, Sneha and French, Tara (2017) Designing a culture of resilience: Embedding innovation in health and social care integration in Scotland. In: NHS Highland Research, Development & Innovation Annual Conference 2017: Resilience for Public Health, for the NHS, for Communities, for Patients and for All, 24 November 2017, Centre for Health Science, Inverness.

Enabling Genuine Participation in Co-design with Young People with Learning Disabilities

Raman, Sneha and French, Tara (2021) Enabling Genuine Participation in Co-design with Young People with Learning Disabilities. CoDesign, 18 (4). pp. 431-447. ISSN 1571-0882

Game Jam Experience Lab

Raman, Sneha and French, Tara (2015) Game Jam Experience Lab. [Video]

Game Jam: Co-designing a game-based learning tool on internet and social media safety with young people with learning disabilities

Raman, Sneha and French, Tara (2015) Game Jam: Co-designing a game-based learning tool on internet and social media safety with young people with learning disabilities. Project Report. The Glasgow School of Art.

Participatory Design in Sensitive Contexts: A Proposal for a Conceptual Framework

Raman, Sneha and French, Tara (2022) Participatory Design in Sensitive Contexts: A Proposal for a Conceptual Framework. The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design, 25 (5). pp. 752-767. ISSN 1460-6925

Towards a shared understanding of genuine co-design with people with lived experience: reflections from co-designing for relational and transformational experiences in health and social care in the UK

Raman, Sneha and French, Tara (2022) Towards a shared understanding of genuine co-design with people with lived experience: reflections from co-designing for relational and transformational experiences in health and social care in the UK. In: Designing Interventions to Address Complex Societal Issues. Design Research for Change . Routledge. ISBN 9781032205441

Design-led Approach to Co-production of Values for Collective Decision-Making

Raman, Sneha, French, Tara and Tulloch, Angela (2017) Design-led Approach to Co-production of Values for Collective Decision-Making. The Design Journal, 20 (Sup 1). S4331-S4342. ISSN 1756-3062

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

Co-designing a ‘Community Compass’ interactive resource to support palliative care transitions

Scott, Ros, French, Tara, Raman, Sneha, Jindal-Snape, Divya and Sixsmith, Judith (2020) Co-designing a ‘Community Compass’ interactive resource to support palliative care transitions. In: 11th World Research Congress of the EAPC, 07-09 Oct 2020, Palermo, Italy.

Developing a Design Brief for a Virtual Hospice Using Design Tools and Methods: a preliminary exploration

Taylor, Andrea, French, Tara, Lennox, Jeni and Keen, Jeremy (2015) Developing a Design Brief for a Virtual Hospice Using Design Tools and Methods: a preliminary exploration. Visible Language, 49 (1-2). pp. 96-109.

Developing design principles for a Virtual Hospice: improving access to care

Taylor, Andrea, French, Tara and Raman, Sneha (2017) Developing design principles for a Virtual Hospice: improving access to care. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care. ISSN 2045-435X

Designed Engagement

Teal, Gemma and French, Tara (2016) Designed Engagement. In: 2016 Design Research Society 50th Anniversary Conference, 27 - 30 Jun 2016, Brighton, UK.

‘Fast forward’: Accelerating Innovation in Health and Wellbeing

Teal, Gemma and French, Tara (2016) ‘Fast forward’: Accelerating Innovation in Health and Wellbeing. In: The 20th DMI Academic Design Management Conference, 28-29 July 2016, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, USA.

Spaces for Participatory Design Innovation

Teal, Gemma and French, Tara (2020) Spaces for Participatory Design Innovation. In: 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise, 15-19 June 2020, Manizales, Columbia.

Backpack

Teal, Gemma, French, Tara and Bradley, Jay (2018) Backpack. Project Report. Digital Health & Care Institute (DHI).

Fostering Engagement Through Creative Collaboration

Teal, Gemma, French, Tara, Hepburn, Leigh Anne and Raman, Sneha (2016) Fostering Engagement Through Creative Collaboration. In: Cumulus Open Design for E-very-thing, 21-24 Nov 2016, Hong Kong.

“What happened to that project?”: The Ethics of Creative Engagement and Translation of Ideas into Action

Teal, Gemma, Raman, Sneha and French, Tara (2019) “What happened to that project?”: The Ethics of Creative Engagement and Translation of Ideas into Action. In: International Design in Government Summer Conference, 25-26 June 2019, Edinburgh.

Ethics by Design. Exploring Experiences of Harmony and Dissonance in Ethical Practice

Tulloch, Angela, French, Tara and Hepburn, Leigh Anne (2019) Ethics by Design. Exploring Experiences of Harmony and Dissonance in Ethical Practice. The Design Journal, 22 (1). pp. 401-416. ISSN 1756-3062

Using Games Based Learning to Support Young People With Learning Disabilities Stay Safe Online

Usoro, Idong, Connolly, Thomas, Raman, Sneha, French, Tara and Caulfield, Stuart (2016) Using Games Based Learning to Support Young People With Learning Disabilities Stay Safe Online. In: The 10th European Conference on Games Based Learning, 6-7 Oct 2016, University of the West of Scotland, UK.