Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Janet Coulter has 30 years of experience working in Fashion and Textiles industry. She has industrial experience, working in the Fashion Industry in Paris, London and Northern Ireland before entering academia.
Academic Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Textile and Fashion Design
- MBA
- MSc. Multimedia Computer Based Learning with Education
- Post Grad Dip. In Higher Education
Her current PhD research is in the field of e-fashion, investigating the potential of e-clothing to act as a barometer to manage stress and wellbeing in female students. Janet has been a lecturer at Ulster University since 1999 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in Fashion in the Belfast School of Art in 2009. She has previously served as Course Director and Placement coordinator on BDes. Textile and Fashion Design Degree Course.
Faculty Roles
- Faculty e-Learning coordinator (2004-2006) in Faculty of Arts
- Director of Academic Enterprise in Faculty of Art, Design and the Built Environment (2007-2016) with responsibility for leading industry-academia research and enterprise within the creative industries. She was awarded the Distinguished Fellowship for Enterprise by Ulster in 2013
Professional Qualifications
- Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy since 2014 (SFHEA)
- Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM5)
- Aurora alumna, Women in Leadership Programme
- Fellow of Higher Education and Research Practice (FCHERP)
Awards
- Distinguished Enterprise Fellow 2013
- Intertrade Ireland Award for Outstanding Innovation 2014
- Rolls Royce Science Prize Winner 2018
- Distinguished Fellow of Educational Excellence in Innovation 2019
Research interests:
- Wearable Textile Technologies for fashion to support emotive health
- Multidisciplinary co-design across design and science. In 2017 she was awarded a Rolls Royce Science Prize 2017 for interdisciplinary research project in e-textiles.
- Virtual/3D and future Pattern engineering technologies
- Multidisciplinary and co-Design approaches to Design and Science
- e-Textiles to address gender imbalance in STEM
Key Grants:
- Key involvement in 2 AHRC grants (£49,377)
- Principal investigator on 5 KTP programmes (£595,512 R-coded)
- Principal Investigator on 3 FUSION Projects (104,950)
- Other R-Coded (£32,000 R-Coded)
- Consultancy (£38,000)
- HEIF/Connected/Student Enterprise/European (£84,718)
- Managed £50,000 (R-coded) of Higher Education Innovation Fund Awards annually as Director of Academic Enterprise in Faculty of Art, Design and the Built Environment (2007-2016)
External positions
External Examiner, Robert Gordon University
1 Sep 2015 → …External Validator
1 Mar 2013 → 31 Dec 2018Keywords
- TT Handicrafts Arts and crafts
- Fashion
- Textiles
- Wearable Technology
- Pattern Engineering
- 3D CAD Design
- e-fashion
- e-textiles
- Multidisciplinary
- Design for Wellbeing
- Circular Economy fashion
- Smart textiles
- Entrepreneurship
- Design Thinking
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Research Output 2013 2018
The Designers Leap: Boundary Jumping to foster interdisciplinarity between Textile Design and Science
Coulter, J., 16 Jul 2018, In : Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice. 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Textiles
Product design
Industry
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Spheres of Practice for the Co-design of Wearables
Fairburn, S., Steed, J. & Coulter, J., 12 Dec 2016, In : Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice. 4, 1, p. 85-109Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Supporting the Student Experience by Developing Student Entrepreneurs
Coulter, J., 6 May 2015, Unknown Host Publication. 26 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
entrepreneur
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Thinking CapsActive learning spaces and collaborative approaches to enhance student engagement learning'Thinking Caps' Active and Collaborative Learning Approaches to Enhance Student Engagement
Coulter, J., 22 Jan 2015, Unknown Host Publication. 2 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Embedding creative Processes in the Development of Soft Body Armour: Physiological, Aesthetic, Functionality and Strategic Challenges
Coulter, J., 2013, Innovation through Knowledge Transfer 2012 Series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, Vol. 18. Berlin Heidelberg 2013, Vol. 2013. p. 1-12Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Prizes
Distinguished Education Excellence Fellow
Janet Coulter (Recipient), 13 Mar 2019
Prize: Honorary award
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learning
education
Intertrade Ireland Award for Outstanding Innovation
Janet Coulter (Recipient), Dec 2013
Prize: Honorary award
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Ireland
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