Dr Isaiah Durosaiye

PhD

School of Architecture

Research Associate

Member of the School Research Committee

Member of the School PGR sub-Committee

i.durosaiye@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0368

Arts Tower

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Dr Isaiah Durosaiye
School of Architecture
Arts Tower
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN

Profile

My research is concerned with ageing and the built environment and is underpinned by the person-environment fit theory. In particular, my research focuses on how human-environment interactions could support the health and wellbeing of older people. My work on age-friendly environments applies qualitative methods and post-occupancy evaluation as tools to understand and improve the built environment for older people.

For more than ten years, I have participated, and led work packages, in a number of UKRI-funded and EU-funded interdisciplinary research projects. Between July 2020 and June 2021 I was a Co-investigator on the AgeingHood project, a £100k AHRC-funded research that explored the intersection between ageing, housing and livelihood in marginalised communities in Bangkok, Thailand. As a co-investigator I led the co-design and participatory research activities on the project, with an outcome that contributed to the development of housing typologies for low-income groups in Bangkok. Between June 2022 and December 2022, as a follow-up to the AgeingHood project, I secured a further £30k AHRC follow-on funding for impact creation and knowledge exchange activities.

Between March 2015 and February 2018, I was a researcher in the €1m ESRC-funded ODESSA project on Optimising Care Delivery Models to Support Ageing-in-Place, including partners from China, France and the UK. I co-authored 3 peer-reviewed journal articles from the ODESSA project.

Prior to that, between March 2013 and September 2016, I worked as a researcher on an EU-funded research project, OIKONET, which was a €1m multidisciplinary housing research project involving 34 partners across Africa, Europe and South America. One of the outputs of the OIKONET project is a book I co-edited, entitled ‘Global Dwelling: Approaches to Sustainability, Design and Participation’.

Qualifications

PhD Architectural Design
MSc Sustainable Waste Management
MBA
BSc Civil Engineering

Research interests

Global population ageing and demographic trends
Age-friendly and inclusive design
Health and wellbeing of older people
Sustainable design of the built environment

Publications

Edited books

Durosaiye I & Hadjri K (Ed.) (2020) Global Dwelling: Approaches to Sustainability, Design and Participation. WIT Press.

Journal articles

Rojas Bernal CL, Durosaiye IO, Hadjri K, Zabala Corredor SK, Segura Duran E & Cortés Prieto A (2022) Neglected landscapes and green infrastructure: The case of the Limas Creek in Bogotá, Colombia. Geoforum, 136, 194-210.
Durosaiye I, Hadjri K, Huang J, Sinuraibhan S, Wungpatcharapon S, Sattayakorn S & Ramasoot S (2022) Developing and Testing a Live-Work Postoccupancy Evaluation Tool for Informal Settlements in Thailand. The International Journal of Design Management and Professional Practice, 16(2), 77-94.
Durosaiye I & Hadjri K (2022) Housing and Living off the grid in an era of urbanisation. Academia Letters.
Hadjri K, Gadakari T, Huang J & Durosaiye I (2021) Future scenarios of “housing with care” for the aging population in China. The Journal of Aging and Social Change, 11(1), 45-65. View this article in WRRO
Hadjri K, Gadakari T, Huang J & Durosaiye I (2020) The potential of assistive technologies in facilitating better health and social care in China. The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society, 16(2), 15-33. View this article in WRRO
Durosaiye IO, Hadjri K, Lasanthi Liyanage C & Chrysikou E (2020) Developing, validating and testing a ward environment assessment tool : WEAT. Journal of Nursing Management. View this article in WRRO
Hadjri K, Gadakari T, Huang J & Durosaiye I (2019) The role of housing design in achieving aging in place in China. The Journal of Aging and Social Change, 9(4), 51-75. View this article in WRRO
Durosaiye IO, Hadjri K & Liyanage CL (2019) A critique of post-occupancy evaluation in the UK. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 34(1), 345-352.
Durosaiye IO, Hadjri K, Liyanage CL & Bennett K (2017) A matrix for the qualitative evaluation of nursing tasks. Journal of Nursing Management. View this article in WRRO
Durosaiye IO, Hadjri K & Liyanage CL (2016) Identifying Challenging Job and Environmental Demands of Older Nurses Within the National Health Service. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 9(3), 82-105. View this article in WRRO
Sattayakorn S, Sinuraibhan S, Ramasoot S, Wungpatcharapon S, Hadjri K, Durosaiye I & Huang J () Live-Work Interior Quality for Older People in Low-Income Housing in Bangkok. Interiority, 6(2).

Conference proceedings papers

Balla R, Benkő M & Durosaiye I (2017) Mass housing estate location in relation to its liveability : Budapest case study. AMPS Proceedings Series, Vol. 10.1 (pp 194-205). University of Derby, UK, 22 June 2017 - 23 June 2017.
Durosaiye I & Hadjri K (2015) A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF URBAN REGENERATION PROGRAMMES IN EUROPE. Architecture_MPS View this article in WRRO

Research group

Grants

Teaching interests: I am interested in teaching subjects about the environments of ageing.

Teaching activities: As a researcher, most of my teaching activities are informed by my research. I teach Research Techniques and Academic Writing on the Communications Module to undergraduate students. I also teach topics informed by my research on the MSc in Sustainable Architectural Studies course and deliver a range of skills development workshops on the School’s PhD degree programme.

Professional activities and memberships

Member of the British Society of Gerontology
Member of the Gerontological Society of America
Member of AGE Platform Europe
Member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College
Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy

Invitations

Apr 2017

International Guest Lecturing, Budapest, Hungary:
Invited to Budapest University of Technology and Economics to deliver a lecture to a group of 40 masters students studying Urban Design. Lecture topic: ‘Growing old in a Global City: Barriers and Enablers of Active and Healthy Ageing’

Nov 2016

Mobilising the Potential of Active Ageing (MoPAct), Brussels, Belgium:
Invited to MoPAct Final Conference, as a professional stakeholder, at which the findings of the project were presented.

Sep 2016

OIKONET Project Final International Conference on ‘Global Dwelling’, Manchester, UK:
Member of the Scientific and Organising Committee. Peer-reviewed conference papers and co-edited conference proceedings.

Sep 2015

European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG), Gastein, Austria:
Invited to be a panel discussant at the annual conference of EHFG. Topic: Impact of health and longevity on the European ageing workforce.

Apr 2015

MoPAct, Tallinn, Estonia:
Invited as a professional stakeholder, to contribute ideas and offer guidance to support project remit.

Mar 2015

European Summit on Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA), Brussels, Belgium:
Invited as a panel discussant to contribute ideas on how ICT and the built environment may support older people.

Dec 2014

AGE Platform Europe (AGE) Annual Conference, Brussels, Belgium:
Nominated by British Society of Gerontology to represent BSG at the annual conference of AGE.

Sep 2014

OIKONET Project First International Conference, Barcelona, Spain:
Gave a presentation on Contemporary Housing Research and Design.