Members of the Research Network
Universal Design Hub has created and facilitates an interdisciplinary network that aims to turn the academic field of universal design into a research-based, cross-disciplinary field of knowledge. Universal design cannot be propagated from within one field alone. Researchers in the network come from various fields of study that each contribute to shaping the world around us.
Members of the network are researchers who work with universal design in their teaching and research within their specific academic discipline, for example construction, design, health and engineering.
The network meets three times a year for e.g. master class sessions with international experts or joint publication, and teaching activities.
The network also regularly participates in debates, publications and activities in collaboration with Universal Design Hub.
Anne Kathrine Frandsen
Senior Researcher
Aalborg University
Anne Kathrine Frandsen’s research focuses on how users experience the quality of architecture and the built environment. It particularly focuses on how sensory and utilitarian qualities contribute to stimulating and equal frameworks for all, and how these can be created and upheld throughout the entirety of the building process, from programme to outline, from project planning to completion.
Division of of Building Technology and Management
Department of the Built Environment
Aalborg University
E-mail: akf@build.aau.dk
E-mail: build@build.aau.dk
Barbara Nino Carreras
PhD student
IT University of Copenhagen
Barbara Nino Carreras is a PhD student at the IT University of Copenhagen, where she researches digital accessibility within Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Her PhD project examines how people in Denmark use mandatory digital infrastructure to access benefits or communicate with public authorities. She is particularly interested in exploring collective forms of accessibility.
IT University of Copenhagen
E-mail: barb@itu.dk
Emil Ballegaard
PhD student
The Royal Danish Academy
Emil Ballegaard is an Architect MAA and PhD student at the Royal Danish Academy where he studies digital descriptions of user-architecture interactions and how they are used to develop housing architecture.
Emil Søbjerg Falster
Postdoc
Aalborg University
Emil Falster is a postdoc at the Universal Design Hub/Bevica Foundation and the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University. His research has previously focused on children and young people with disabilities and their everyday lives. His research is now centred