Dr Lili Golmohammadi is an interdisciplinary design researcher specialising in participatory and co-design methodologies across health, technology, and sustainability. She is a Research Associate based in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery, and Palliative Care at King’s College London and Associate Director of the Centre for Technology and the Body.

Her research explores how design facilitates knowledge-sharing and collaboration between different forms of expertise to address complex social issues. She is particularly interested in participatory methodologies, including co-design and design research to understand lived experience, and develop more inclusive technologies, services, and research practices.

She is currently working on two collaborative projects seed funded by King’s: ‘Glamorous things’, which brings together medical devices users and drag artists to explore how applied performance methods can improve the design and user experience of externally worn medical devices; and ‘Supporting whole-person health after cancer’, which brings together cancer survivors, charities, and oncologists to co-design pathways for delivering evidence-based survivorship support in charity and community settings.

Lili also works with the King’s Health Partners Digital Health Hub, where she provides co-design expertise to healthcare professionals, researchers, patients, and technology developers across the UK. She likewise brings this knowledge to the King’s MedTech Accelerator and King’s MedTech Venture Builder programmes, based at the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering.

Before joining King’s, Lili was a Research Fellow for the UKRI-funded Textiles Circularity Centre, supporting the development of a circular textile economy through creative research into alternative consumer experiences. Her ERC-funded PhD from University College London explored the role of touch and still-emergent ‘digital touch’ technologies in experiences of loneliness, and was attached to the interdisciplinary IN-TOUCH, which sought to find new ways of conceptualising and studying the social and sensory implications of digitally mediated touch.

Prior to this, Lili worked for over 12 years as a designer, and taught and researched Design, Design Education, and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of the Arts London, and Kingston University.

She has hosted two seasons of Together We Create, a podcast about interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to research and its benefits and challenges.