Hua Dong returned to Tongji University as a Professor at the College of Design and Innovation, following 12-year research and teaching in the United Kingdom (University of Cambridge, Royal College of Art, and Brunel University, London).
She has extensive experiences of cross-cultural and interdisciplinary design research. She has published over 100 papers, and has been a Principal Investigator for a number of research projects in the UK and China. Hua is directly involved in the teaching of design at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Hua founded the Inclusive Design Research Group at Brunel University and Tongji University. She is the international coordinator of the Inclusive Design Research Interest Group (InclusiveSIG), and serves as a council member of the Design Research Society (DRS).
Hua is now Professor in Design at Brunel University London.