Justine’s research is especially focused in the role of design as a catalyst for growth, learning, and positive change. Her current research spans across: 

• Revealing patterns that make current systems unjust and unfair through design-led approaches, 
• Handling disputes, navigating tensions and facilitating conversations through design, 
• The role of design in enhancing creative confidence, entrepreneurial agency and resilience in creatives.  

Justine’s doctoral study explored Rapid Design Interventions outcomes as well as the nuances of design-driven and design-led approaches. The former is about building an innovation strategy for an organisation that leads to products and services that have a radical new meaning for customers. The latter is about working closely with organisations and stakeholders to understand their potential futures and create a strategy to achieve their vision. 

Her doctoral research emerged whilst working closely with SME owners and sole traders as part of her Innovator-in-Residence role at Northumbria, where she co-designed and delivered rapid and intense design-led interventions to support organisations with innovation. These interventions were part of Get Ready To Innovate (GRTI), a programme delivered in the UK through Creative Fuse North East (2017-2019; 2020-on-going), in Armenia through the British Council Creative Spark project in partnership with the American University of Armenia (2018-2019), and in the US (2020-2021) in partnership with Cornell University and funded by the IIE Centennial Fellowship. 

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• Towards an understanding of Rapid Design Interventions outcomes on participants and organisations, Carrion-Weiss, J. 16 Dec 2022
• Design Listening: what designers hear and how they respond, Carrion-Weiss, J., Bailey, M., Spencer, N. 7 Dec 2022, [ ] With Design: Reinventing Design Modes, Singapore, Springer
• Design-led Innovation Readiness: priming micro SMEs for strategic innovation, Arakelyan, A., Carrion-Weiss, J., Carter, A., Bailey, M., Spencer, N. 2022, In: Design Management Journal
• Multidisciplinary innovation Armenia: explorations in design-led multidisciplinary enterprise education, Bailey, M., Spencer, N., Carrion-Weiss, J., Arakelyan, A. 8 Sep 2022, DS 117: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2022), London South Bank University in London, UK. 8th - 9th September 2022, The Design Society
• Three degrees of influence in virtual workshops: towards an understanding of co-creative facilitation practice in technologically mediated settings, Hemstock, O., Bailey, M., Spencer, N., Simmons, H., Coombs, S., Carrion-Weiss, J., Richardson, C. 25 Jun 2022, Proceedings of DRS2022 Bilbao, London, Design Research Society
• Innovation Constellations as a systems approach to social design infrastructuring, Spencer, N., Simmons, H., Bailey, M., Hemstock, O., Carrion-Weiss, J. 20 Jul 2022, In: Academic Design Management Conference Proceedings
• Novice facilitators as creative catalysts in innovation support, Lampitt Adey, K., Bailey, M., Carrion-Weiss, J., Gibbons, F. 2 Nov 2020, Design revolutions: IASDR 2019 Conference Proceedings. Volume 4: Learning, Technology, Thinking., Manchester Metropolitan University Press

• Design Studies PhD May 24 2023
• Design Studies MA September 01 2016
• Modern Languages BA July 01 2015