Andrea Taylor
Andrea Taylor
- Research Fellow
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4408-1466- Job Title
- Research Fellow
- School or Academic Area
- School of Design
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Design
- A.Taylor@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- 164 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G3 6RF
Biography
Andrea has over 30 years’ experience in the Creative Industries as an academic researcher and practising designer. Over the course of her career, Andrea has developed expertise in design-led research methods, including participatory and co-design approaches, visualisation methods, qualitative data synthesis, and iterative prototyping and testing. Her research spans a broad interest in health and social care, with projects exploring topics such as young people’s mental health, palliative care, community-based care, homelessness, bowel health, dysfunctional breathing, respiratory disease, and fuel poverty. She typically uses qualitative methods and participatory design approaches with populations ranging from children and young people to older adults. She holds an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art, a First-Class Honours degree in Visual Communication Design, an HND in Typographic Design, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Supervision (Creative Practices) – Distinction. Andrea has published and presented widely, including as an invited speaker at the V&A (London) museum.
Research Interests
Andrea has a research interest in participatory design of products, services, and systems to address health and social care challenges, often involving digital technologies but not limited to them.
Grants
Most recently, Andrea was Co-Investigator on the following UKRI grants:
• OptiMuscle: Improving Health Outcomes Through the Optimization of Muscle Function. Total funding: £404,045. Funded period: Nov 21–May 24.
• On-organ Sensing For Bowel Monitoring. Total funding: £404,195. Funded period: Sept 21–Mar 24.
• Transdisciplinary Research for the Improvement of Youth Mental Public Health (TRIUMPH) Network. Total funding: £1,033,463. Funded period: Dec 18–Apr 23.
Andrea was an advisory group member on the Emerging Minds: Action for Child Mental Health research grant. Funder: ESRC. Total funding: £946,072. Funded period: Apr 19–Nov 22. She was also a researcher on the APAtSCHE: Ageing Population Attitudes to Sensor Controlled Home Energy research grant. Funder: EPSRC. Total funding: £603,328. Funding period: Nov 12–Apr 15.
Involvement in other grant-funded work includes:
• CESAME: Culturally Engaged and Sensitive Approaches to Mental Health Education. Funded by the TRIUMPH Network (above) through ‘plus funding’. Total funding: £29,529. Funded period: 2021–2022.
• HasAnswers; Development of a Digital Tool to Support Young People to Manage Independent Living. Funded by European Social Fund (ESF) Social Innovation Fund. Total funding: £114,699. Funded period: 2018.
• Virtual Hospice: Developing Hospice Care Over a Distance. Funded by The Scottish Funding Council Innovation Voucher Scheme. Total funding: £7,845.50. Funded period: 2012. Also later funded by the Digital Health Institute. Total funding £6,941. Funded period: 2015.
• 21st Century Telecare: Supporting Safe and Independent Living. Funded by the Scottish Government Joint Improvement Team. Total funding: £14,015. Funding period: 2010–2011. Also later funded by SBRI. Total funding: £30,000. Funded period: 2018–2019.
• Exploratory Projects on Young People’s Mental Health. Funded by NHS Grampian. Total funding: £13,915. Funded period: 2016–2017.
• Developing a Novel Communication System to Deliver Group-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation to the Home via the Internet: Widening Access for Patients. Funded by Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland. Total funding: £62,845. Funded period: 2009–2010.
• New Technologies to Support Home Monitoring of Patients with COPD in Moray. Funded by Moray Community Health and Social Care Partnership. Total funding: £50,000. Funded period: 2007–2008.
PGR Supervision Interests
I’m open to supervising PhD research across a broad range of topics. My research focuses on participatory design in health and social care, often involving digital technologies, but I welcome work beyond these areas.
Current PGR Students
• Yue Hu. Working title: Using Visual Design to Encourage Desktop Computer Shutdown in Higher Education Institutions.
• Jing Li. Working title: Designing and Implementing Hybrid Interventions for Loneliness Reduction: Exploring Digital Combined with In-Person Solutions for the Elderly in Scotland.
• Shuzhong Wang. Working title: Exploring Narrative and Co-Design Methods in Social Care Decision-Making Processes for Older People.
Former PGR Students
• Shangshu Wang. Communication Through Motion Graphics: A Participatory Design Investigation, Integrating Producer and Consumer Perspectives.
• Ziwei Wang. Using design thinking to develop a new narrative-based career construction counselling model for young people in life transitions.
Teaching
My role is research-only. I do, however, have experience of research–teaching linkage through the 21st Century Telecare project listed above. This is a live student project within the Product Design Engineering (PDE) programme, focused on digital technologies (telecare) to support safe and independent living. The project has been carried out in collaboration with an industry partner, with several of the students’ design concepts progressing to commercialisation.
Latest Additions
- Taylor, Andrea and Hills, Laura (2025) Finding, evaluating and recommending digital mental health tools: knowledge exchange session summary. Project Report. The Glasgow School of Art.
- Cunningham, Emily, Raman, Sneha, Taylor, Andrea, Svirydzenka, Nadia, Siddiqi, Abdul Moiz, Abdinasir, Kadra and Raghavan, Raghu (2024) Supporting the mental health of young people from ethnically diverse groups during the transition from primary to secondary school. Health Education Journal. ISSN 0017-8969
- Taylor, Andrea, Pizey, Hugh and Whittet, Craig (2022) Supporting Safe and Independent Living: Findings, Themes and Concept Designs from a User-Centred Study on Digital Telecare. Interacting with Computers, 3 (4). pp. 367-379. ISSN Print: 0953-5438; Electronic: 1873-7951
- Taylor, Andrea, McMellon, Christina, French, Tara, MacLachlan, Alice, Evans, Rhiannon, Lewis, Ruth, McCann, Mark, Moore, Laurence, Murphy, Simon, Simpson, Sharon and Inchley, Jo (2022) Defining research priorities for youth public mental health: reflections on a co-production approach to transdisciplinary working. Health Research Policy and Systems, 20. ISSN 1478-4505
- Raman, Sneha, Taylor, Andrea, Siddiqi, Abdul Moiz, Cunningham, Emily, Svirydzenka, Nadzeya, Abdinasir, Kadra and Raghavan, Raghu (2022) CESAME: Culturally Engaged and Sensitive Approaches to Mental health Education – Project Summary. Project Report. Glasgow School of Art.
- Taylor, Andrea (2018) A School Survey on Use and Knowledge of Apps and Websites for Promoting Mental Wellbeing. In: HCI '18: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1-5.
- 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
- Walker, Guy, Taylor, Andrea, Whittet, Craig, Lynn, Craig, Docherty, Catherine, Stephen, Bruce, Owens, Edward and Galloway, Stuart (2017) A Practical Review of Energy Saving Technology for Ageing Populations. Applied Ergonomics, 62. pp. 247-258. ISSN 0003-6870
- 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.
- Taylor, Andrea, Bernard, Lorna, Pizey, Hugh, Whittet, Craig, Davies, Samantha, Hammond, David and Edge, Julian (2015) BodyGuard: A Case Study of Telecare Product Innovation and Development. In: CHI EA '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, pp. 663-670. ISBN 978-1-4503-3146-3
