丁香园AV

Dr. Mei Lan Fang is an Assistant Professor in Urban Aging in Urban Studies and Department of Gerontology at 丁香园AV, Canada. She is also a Visiting Scholar in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Her primary research contribution has focused on progressing community-based participatory research concepts, theory, and methods for co-creating healthy, inclusive age-friendly places and environments. 

For the past decade, Dr. Fang has led and contributed to ageing in place and wellbeing research to inform the development of age-friendly cities and communities as a Community-Engaged Research Scientist and Qualitative Health Research Methodologist. Her research involves interrelated areas of ageing well in place (environmental gerontology), inclusive digital place-making (ageing and technology) and critical public health (social inequities and health). Dr. Fang鈥檚 research approach is transdisciplinary, participatory, community-focused and qualitative through applying narrative and visual co-creation methods, and integrated knowledge translation techniques including: autobiographical and digital storytelling, story mapping, community mapping, photo-voice and photo-tours, community walk-along interviews, deliberative dialogue, and knowledge caf茅s.

Dr. Fang鈥檚 current research is informed by the sustainable development goals (SDGs) 3, 鈥渆nsure healthy lives, promote wellbeing for all at all ages,鈥� and 11 鈥渕ake cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable鈥�. An important area of her research surrounds the development of Intergenerational and Age-Friendly Living Ecosystems, an idea that has translated into a large scale ESRC funded (拢1.7 million) multi-site project, where Dr. Fang鈥檚 involvement as Co-Principal Investigator, is to explore and understand inclusive and exclusionary physical places and virtual spaces with older people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and older people who identify as LGBTQ+ using ArcGIS Story-mapping and Social Network Analysis.