Marissa Cummings
Marissa Cummings
- Research Fellow and Innovation Designer
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1339-9968
- Job Title
- Research Fellow and Innovation Designer
- School or Academic Area
- School of Innovation and Technology
- m.cummings@gsa.ac.uk
- Country
- Scotland, UK
Biography
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, substance use, stigma, and trauma-informed participatory design.
Research Interests
participatory design, equity, inclusion, stigma, trauma
Latest Additions
- Cummings, Marissa and Teal, Gemma (2026) “I didn’t choose to write my life”: Trauma-informed values in the design of social care records. Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference 2026. ISSN 2398-3132
- McIntyre, Don, Teal, Gemma, Bruce, Angela, Raman, Sneha, Bradley, Jay and Cummings, Marissa (2023) 10 Years of Meaningful Co-design. Forres, 16 June 2023
- 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
- 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

