Mei Lan Fang

Biography

Dr Mei Lan Fang is a Lecturer / Assistant Professor in Health and Environmental Gerontology located in the School of Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland. Dr Fang is also an Adjunct Professor and Engagement and Education Director at the Science and Technology Aging Research Institute, Department of Gerontology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. 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 as a Community-Engaged Research Scientist and Qualitative Health Research Methodologist with particular focus on interrelated areas of ageing well in place (environmental gerontology), inclusive digital place-making (ageing and technology) and critical public health (social inequities and health). Her 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 cafés. Dr Fang’s current research programme focuses on co-creating ecosystems of intergenerational and inclusive physical and virtual environments with and for older people living in the community.