Sneha Raman
Sneha Raman
- Research and Teaching Fellow - Design for Health and Wellbeing
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9513-0881- Job Title
- Research and Teaching Fellow - Design for Health and Wellbeing
- School or Academic Area
- School of Innovation and Technology
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Innovation and Technology
- s.raman@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- Haldane Building, 24 Hill Street, Glasgow G3 6RN
Biography
Sneha’s research focuses on participatory design in care, wellbeing and health, addressing questions about equitable and just futures. Grounded in situated knowledges and social justice, her work explores how lived experience and underrepresented perspectives can shape decision-making through co-design. Sneha is interested in reshaping collaborative practices using relational, plural and intersectional approaches, developing creative methods that challenge power relations and foreground diverse forms of knowledge. This work contributes to changing practice and policy and fostering fairer outcomes for people and communities.
At the Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre, Sneha leads projects bringing together citizens, communities and professionals across government, the NHS, social care, industry and the third sector. She has secured research funding from UKRI and SUII as Principal and Co-Investigator.
Sneha’s professional contributions include peer reviews for leading journals and research grants. She is a member of the international Social Design Network and RSE Young Academy of Scotland.
Research Interests
Participatory design; Care, wellbeing and health; Co-design; Social justice; Situated knowledges; Lived experience; Underrepresented perspectives; Relationality; Plurality; Intersectionality; Equitable outcomes
Grants
Co-Investigator, REALITIES in Health Disparities: Researching Evidence-based Alternatives in Living, Imaginative, Traumatised, Integrated, Embodied Systems (3), 2024-27, Funded by UKRI AHRC
Co-Investigator, REALITIES in Health Disparities: Researching Evidence-based Alternatives in Living, Imaginative, Traumatised, Integrated, Embodied Systems (2), 2022-24, Funded by UKRI AHRC
Co-Investigator, Eating Disorders: Delineating illness and recovery trajectories to inform personalised prevention and early intervention in young people (EDIFY), 2021-26, Funded by Medical Research Council/Arts and Humanities Research Council/Economic and Social Research Council Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind initiative
Principal Investigator, CESAME: Culturally Engaged and Sensitive Approaches to Mental health Education, 2020-22, Funded by UKRI TRIUMPH Network
Teaching
Lecturer on the BDes Product Design programme
Supervisor/ Co-supervisor on the MRes/ PhD programmes
Latest Additions
- Foster, Victoria, de Andrade, Marisa and Raman, Sneha (2025) Summoning the Genius Temporis: The Time and Place for Arts-Based, Creative Policy Making to Further Social Justice. Qualitative Inquiry. ISSN Print: 1077-8004; Online: 1552-7565
- Raman, Sneha, French, Tara, Whyte, Anna, Whoriskey, Margaret and Lyons, Abigail (2025) Digital Innovation in Social Care - Industry Engagement Workshop : Report. Project Report. Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre, Glasgow.
- Whoriskey, Margaret, Raman, Sneha, Kunte, Aarya and McIntyre, Don (2025) Digital Innovation in Social Care: Priorities and Opportunities for Scotland. Project Report. Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre.
- Arakelyan, Stella, Kerby, Tim, Raman, Sneha, Boyle, Joanne, Ihnatenko, Daria, Guthrie, Bruce, Tooman, Tricia, Hartley, Louise, O'Donnell, Amy, Underwood, Ian, Jacko, Julie and Anand, Atul (2024) Optimising care transitions for people with multiple long-term conditions: learning from a stakeholder engagement workshop. Discussion Paper. Advanced Care Research Centre, University of Edinburgh.
- De Andrade, Marisa, Barton-Wines, Nicholas, Bull, Rhiannon, Campbell, Lucy, Davis, Scott, Lowe, Toby, Marshall, Alan, Neilson, Aileen, O’Hare, Mark, Raman, Sneha, Rowe, Sam, Sachpasidi, Christina, Sanchez-Rodilla Espeso, Candela, Stenhouse, Rosie and Soweid, Leah (2024) REALITIES in Health Disparities: Researching Evidence-based Alternatives in Living, Imaginative, Traumatised, Integrated, Embodied Systems. Frontiers in Public Health, 12. ISSN 2296-2565
- 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
- Mansilla, Elba, Raman, Sneha, Parameswaran, Lekshmy, Irvine, Joanne, Ballesteros, Xabier and Smith, Madeline (2024) Catalonia and Scotland: Paths Towards the Right to Care. Discussion Paper. Xarxa Dret A Cura and School of Innovation and Technology, Glasgow School of Art.
- McIntyre, Don, Teal, Gemma, Bruce, Angela, Raman, Sneha, Bradley, Jay and Cummings, Marissa (2023) 10 Years of Meaningful Co-design. Forres, 16 June 2023
- Raman, Sneha, Teal, Gemma and Summers, Fiona (2023) Redesigning the care journey for people with functional disorder. Project Report. Glasgow School of Art.
- Raman, Sneha and Simms, Harriet (2023) Digital Lifelines: DHI Discover and Define. Project Report. The Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre.
