Mei Fang

Dr. Mei Lan Fang is an Assistant Professor in Urban Studies and Department of Gerontology and Undergraduate Chair for the Urban Worlds major at Simon Fraser University, 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 inclusive age-friendly cities and communities research as a Community-Engaged Research Scientist and Qualitative Health Research Methodologist. 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 (£1.7 million) multi-site project, where Dr. Fang’s 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 LGBT+.