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York Street, Belfast Campus
BT15 1ED Belfast
United Kingdom
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Justin Magee is a professor of Design and the Interim Associate Dean for Research & Impact (AHSS). His academic discipline is product design. He was Research Director for the Belfast School of Art (UoA32) from 2017-2021, leading the REF2021 submission. He received the Ulster University Distinguished Business Fellowship 2007, Research Excellence award for KE in 2017 and the Research Excellence Award for Business partnerships of the year under 250 employees in 2020.
His research focuses on digital human modelling, user experience and immersion for physical and digital product applications, in Arts and Health. His work was returned in the RAE2001, RAE2008, REF2014 and REF2021 including leading an Impact Case Study.
Since 2001, he has had a sustained record of multi-disciplinary and multiagency research income securing £8,456,623 across 24 external research awards (excludes match funding of circa £5,700,000) from AHRC, RCUK, DCAL, Innovate UK, WHSCT, NHSCT, HSC R&D/PHA, RCUK and ConnectED. He is a Co-investigator on one of the nine national AHRC Creative Industries Clusters (Future Screens NI). 14 awards were as PI (£1,510,493) with additional funding (not R-coded) related to research and impact totalling £49,407 from DCAL, Invest NI/ ERDF/DCC, INTERREG IIIA, HSCNI, HPSS. He has applied for £11,609,397 across 43 awards.
As a design consultant he has worked for LEGO Systems, Denmark, GE Plastics (Germany and UK) on contracts with Mercedes, Audi, Porsche etc., Smart Car and as a design consultant on over 80 commercial projects with SME’s in Ireland and the UK. He has generated >£271,518 through Innovation Ulster Ltd. He has been involved in nine Invention disclosures, 3 patents and is an IP stakeholder in 3 collaborative research projects with HSC Innovations.
His recent KTP activity with CDE Global and Axial3D received Innovate UK Certificates of Excellence (2017, 2020). One featured as a case study for the NCUB State of the Art report (2018) and a finalist at the THELMAs for KE initiative of the year (2018). They were part of an Impact Case Study for REF2021.
He has also served as:
He is a member of the Institute of Designers (IDI, 2006), Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA, 2020), All-Party Design & Innovation (2022) and The Council for Higher Education in Art & Design (CHEAD, 2017). In 2020 he was appointed as CHEAD Research Alliance Strategy Group member. He held an external appointment on the HSC NI Office for Research Ethics Committees (2017-2019). He has peer-reviewed several Journals across design, medical engineering, creative industries and entrepreneurship including the Design Journal.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Advance HE
31 May 2026 → …
Award Date: 26 May 2020
The Higher Education Academcy
10 May 2012 → 31 May 2026
Award Date: 10 May 2012
PhD
1 Apr 2004 → 1 Dec 2009
Award Date: 28 Apr 2010
Bachelor, Coventry University
1 Sep 1992 → 30 May 1996
Award Date: 1 Nov 1996
External Examiner: MA Automotive & Transport Design
16 Dec 2019 → 30 Sep 2021
External Examiner: MSc Industrial Product Design / MSc Design & Transport, Coventry University
1 Mar 2017 → 30 Sep 2021
Office for Research Ethics Committees Northern Ireland (ORECNI) - Lay member
1 Jan 2017 → 31 Jan 2019
Research output: Non-textual form › Device/Product
Research output: Non-textual form › Software
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
Research output: Patent
Research output: Non-textual form › Design
Magee, Justin (Recipient) & Quigley, Terry (Recipient), 21 Jun 2018
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Magee, Justin (Recipient) & Wilson, S. (Recipient), 14 Feb 2020
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Magee, Justin (Recipient) & Quigley, Terry (Recipient), 14 Mar 2017
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Magee, Justin (Recipient) & Wilson, S. (Recipient), 28 Aug 2020
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Magee, Justin (Recipient) & Quigley, Terry (Recipient), 11 May 2017
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