Cara Broadley

Glasgow

Dr Cara Broadley is a design researcher exploring how participatory, creative, and visual methods can help make complexity legible within democratic practice, public sector innovation, and governance. She is a Research Fellow in the School of Innovation and Technology at The Glasgow School of Art, working across parliamentary scrutiny, community empowerment, net-zero transitions, and public policy. Her work focuses on creating artefacts and creative infrastructures that support collective sense-making, listening, and collaborative decision-making. Her research and public-facing outputs examine design as a mode of inquiry within governance, highlighting how participatory design can bridge communities and institutions and support more equitable, responsive, and imaginative forms of democracy.