Yichao He

Team

Based across the Royal College of Art, University of Sheffield or Walsalls’s MindKind Projects, we are a team of multidisciplinary designers and researchers with backgrounds in service design, policy design, participatory art, community solidarity movements, human rights, design for disaster and social innovation to name but a few!

University of Sheffield

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Yichao He is a landscape architect and urban social researcher. Her work on Nature’s way project is to explore the challenges and barriers of integrating different actors in implementing nature-based solutions to promoting health and wellbeing.

After finishing her master’s degree in Landscape studies, Yichao continued to conduct her PhD studies at the University of Sheffield and will graduate in 2022. Her doctoral research focuses on how neighbourhood outdoor spaces in urban China support older people’s health and wellbeing whilst they are ageing-in-place. Yichao’s research interests lay between urban natural environments, age-friendly environments, health and wellbeing, experiences of urban landscapes, and affordances. She also has experience in delivering Landscape research modules as a teaching assistant.

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