Chair of Emerging Researchers Into Ageing Group (ERA):
Dr Junjie Huang
Dr. Junjie Huang is a Senior Architect and Design Consultant at the Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC), University of Stirling. He provides design consultancy, environment audit and research support to age and dementia-related projects through the DSDC, and serves as a reviewer for a number of academic journals, e.g. Ageing & Society, Journal of Aging and Social Change, Health Environment Research and Design (HERD).
Junjie was trained as an Architect and holds a B.Arch. and a M.Arch. from Tsinghua University, China. Junjie worked as a Project Architect for two practice companies, and contributed to more than twelve architectural design consultancy projects across China, before he came to the UK and completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield. Since then, Junjie contributed to several large-scale interdisciplinary research projects relating to age-in-place and age-friendly environments, including ODESSA, AgeingHood and DesHCA.
Junjie’s research and practice focus on the exploration of human-environment relations, looking for new understandings that can inform future design implementations in architecture, urban and other broader design fields, to better support Healthy Ageing.