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Dr Justin Magee, is the Research Director for the Belfast School of Art (UoA32) and a Senior Lecturer in Product design at Ulster University (since 2006). 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 and REF2014 and he leads the UoA32 strategy in preparation for REF2021. He has served as Course and Subject Director (2009-2016) at UG and PG level and placement coordinator (2000-2006, 2010-2015). He was Director for Academic Enterprise for the Faculty of Arts (2006-2011) and Acting Director of the Research Institute (2005). Ulster University awarded him the Distinguished Business Fellowship (2007) and the Impact Research Excellence Impact award for Knowledge Exchange (2017). He is a member of the Institute of Designers (IDI, 2006), Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA, 2020) and The Council for Higher Education in Art & Design (CHEAD, 2017).
He has secured more than £7.015M of research income as a PI or Co-I, excluding commercial match funding of approximately £5.5M and generated over £260K in consultancy income and £67,552 of HEIF projects on interdisciplinary research. He held and external appointment on the HSC NI Office for Research Ethics Committees (2017-2019). He has served the University Research & Impact Committee (2018-2020). He has peer reviewed on several Journals across design, medical engineering, creative industries and entrepreneurship.
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 85 commercial projects with SME’s in Ireland and the UK. 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 research received 2 Innovate UK Certificate of Excellence (2017, 2020), 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).
He has secured 15 external research awards totalling £7,015,355 from AHRC, RCUK, DCAL, Innovate UK, WHSCT, NHSCT, HSC R&D/PHA and RCUK. He is Co-investigator on one of the nine national AHRC Creative Industries Clusters (Future Screens NI). He has secured soft-funding or in-kind income related to research and impact totalling £49,407. Most of his research funding is collaborative with industry and he has worked on over 80 commercial projects including 29 consultancy projects through Innovation Ulster Ltd. (e.g. SMART Car, Randox, Izak9). Has managed 13 awards for HEIF interdisciplinary research. As Director for Academic Enterprise (2006-2011) he managed and allocated £90,000 of completive research impact funding and engaging with the private and public sector.
Education/Academic qualification
Advance HE
31 May 2026 → …
The Higher Education Academcy
10 May 2012 → 31 May 2026
PhD
1 Apr 2004 → 1 Dec 2009
Bachelor, Coventry University
1 Sep 1992 → 30 May 1996
External positions
External Examiner: MA Automotive & Transport Design
16 Dec 2019 → 30 Sep 2021External Examiner: MSc Industrial Product Design / MSc Design & Transport, Coventry University
1 Mar 2017 → 30 Sep 2021Office for Research Ethics Committees Northern Ireland (ORECNI) - Lay member
1 Jan 2017 → 31 Jan 2019Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Justin Magee is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
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Research Output
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Magee, J., Peace, A. & Kelly, R., 9 Jan 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Device/Product
axial3d Insight
Harpur, A., Haslam, N., McGrath, S., Fu Wu, S., Morales Cantana, E., Cooke, T., Donnelly, L., Magee, J. & Wilson, S., 18 Jun 2018Research output: Non-textual form › Software
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Believably immersive VR experiences within the mining industry
Magee, J., Quigley, T., McGroarty, P., Craven, P. & Vallelly, K., 7 Mar 2017Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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Hand Support for a Bow
Porter, M., Magee, J., Doherty, L. & Wilson, IM., 24 May 2018, IPC No. G10D 3/16 (2006.01), World Intellectual Property Organisation, Patent No. WO 2018/091399 A1, 13 Nov 2017, Priority date 15 Nov 2016, Priority No. 1619317.9Research output: Patent
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Pressure Ulcer Prevention Innovation (PUPI) Boot
Magee, J., Porter, M., Quinn, J. & McSwiggan, R., 2016Research output: Non-textual form › Design
Prizes
New York Pet Fashion Week- Lifestyle Innovation Award 2008: Winner
Justin Magee (Recipient), 24 Aug 2008
Prize
Research Impact Excellence Awards
Justin Magee (Recipient) & Terry Quigley (Recipient), 11 May 2017
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Activities
Peter Lloyd Jones
Justin Magee (Host)25 Jul 2019
Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
Intersections: Ulster University Postgraduate Journal (AHSS) (Journal)
Frank Lyons (Member of editorial board), Justin Magee (Editor in chief), Catherine O'Hara (Member of editorial board), Ailie O'Hagan (Editor), Katrina Smyth (Editor), Ronan Kelly (Reviewer), Krzysztof Krzysztof (Reviewer), Henry Melki (Reviewer), Carla Rowney (Reviewer), Paul Stafford (Reviewer), Angelina Villikudathil (Reviewer)May 2019 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication Peer-review
Design Journal (Journal)
Justin Magee (Reviewer)2019
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication Peer-review