Photo Credit: Prof. Donavan Wylie, North Warning System
“Art & Design research is unique in Northern Ireland, leading in Ireland and high performing across the UK.
Our Research was assessed as 83% world-leading or internationally excellent, including 100% of Research Impact and 100% Research Environment reaching this threshold.
Our diverse research impact makes a profound contribution to creativity, culture, society, economy, health and wellbeing.
We are extremely proud of our achievements, and our inclusion of staff, which grew by over 25%.”
How we did
Overall
An outstanding 83% of our research has been judged as world-leading or internationally excellent. This is the second highest within the University for overall research performance.
Research Impact
100% of our impact case studies have been judged as having outstanding or very considerable impacts in terms of their reach and significance.
Environment
100% of our research environment has been judged as being conducive to producing research of world-leading or internationally excellent quality and enabling outstanding impact, in terms of its vitality and sustainability.
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Our Team
Name Role Barron, P Mrs Associate Lecturer-Fine Art Printmaking Belford, P Ms Senior Research Fellow Boyd, K Dr Lecturer in Interaction Design Brolly, R Dr Lecturer In Graphic Design & Illustration Chan, S Dr Lecturer in Art & Design Chen, Y Dr Lecturer In History & Theory of Animation Connolly, R Mr Lecturer in Sculpture Coulter, J Ms Senior Lecturer in Design Cummins, J Dr Lecturer in Time-based Media Dillon, L Dr Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Dixon, B Dr Interim Research Director (Art and Design) Doherty, W Professor Professor of Video Art Driver, C Dr Associate Head of School of Belfast School of Art Fleming, K Professor Ulster Director, Northern Bridge PhD Consortium Gallagher, C Dr Lecturer in Photography Gault, A Mrs Senior Lecturer Grant, K Mr Senior Lecturer in Photography Greaney, A Ms Lecturer in Photography Ingman, B Mr Lecturer in Illustration Ionascu, A Dr Lecturer in 3D Design Magee, J Professor Interim Associate Dean (Research & Impact) Maguire, G Professor Professor of Animation McBrinn, J Dr Reader McHugh, C Dr Lecturer in Ceramics McIntyre, M Miss Lecturer in Fine Art McKenzie, D Mr Lecturer in Painting Moore, M Mr Reader in Fine & Applied Arts Ceramics Morris-Cafiero, H Mrs Lecturer In Photography O'Beirn, A Dr Lecturer Parr, M Professor Professor of Photography Quigley, T Mr Senior Lecturer Sander, V Mr Reader Seawright, P Professor Deputy Vice-Chancellor Shipsides, D Mr Senior Lecturer in Art & Design Wallace, L Dr Lecturer in Fine & Applied Art: Painting Whitaker, P Dr Lecturer in Art Psychotherapy Wylie, D Professor Professor
“We are incredibly proud to continue to lead the way in Art and Design research in the UK, particularly in relation to our exceptionally high Research Impact and Environment performance.
This underscores the special contribution Art and Design make to society nationally and internationally through the creative and cultural industries, leading to both economic growth as well as enhanced wellbeing.”
Impact Case Studies and Environment Statement
Photography, Video, Spaces and the Legacy of Conflict in Northern Ireland Research Outputs
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- A Dream and an Argument
- A Topical Times for These Times : A Book of Liverpool Football
- Alive... again. Unmoored in the Aquafuture of Ellen Gallagher's Watery Ecstatic
- An interface design for urban recreational walking : A practice-based case study
- An Interior Landscape
- axial3d Insight
- Beasts of Burden : Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
- Believably immersive VR experiences within the mining industry
- Benny Profane
- Candy / A Good and Spacious Land
- DECIMATION in A-flat and F-minor
- Design for Health and Well Being : Knitted Products for Diabetics
- Dewey and Design : A Pragmatist Perspective for Design Research
- Dick Bruna (The Illustrators)
- Endless
- Experiments in Experience : Towards an Alignment of Research through Design and John Dewey’s Pragmatism
- Flock
- Hand Support for a Bow
- HeartAttach: Guidewire separator
- Hidden History : Over 100 Years Mapping The Invisible (Catalogue)
- Housing Plans For The Future
- How People Judge the Usability of a Desktop Graphic User Interface at Different Time Points: Is there Evidence for Memory Decay, Recall Bias or Temporal Bias?
- HUMAIN : EKER
- Knitting is the saving of life, Adrian has taken it up too: Needlework, Gender and the Bloomsbury Group
- Loose Ends : ART:2016 Open Call National Project
- Made@EU Exhibition
- Manifesto for ‘spirit of place’: the expressive value of signage on Belfast’s arterial routes in representing wider environmental and societal themes.
- Martin Parr Foundation Collection Database
- No Return : so it is
- North Warning System
- Old or new art? Rethinking classical Chinese animation
- Penumbra: Painting Materialising in the Almost-Shadow
- Public Relations : Art Therapy Pedagogy Out of Bounds
- PUPI : Pressure Ulcer Prevention Innovation
- Queering the Subversive Stitch : Men and the Culture of Needlework
- Raking History' : Future Histories (ART:2016 ACI National Project)
- Refashioning disability: the case of Painted Fabrics Ltd, 1915-1959
- Religion and the Angel's Wake Tradition in Violeta Parra's Art and Lyrics
- Repositioning the Popular: The Hybrid Aesthetics of Violeta Parra’s Paintings Machitún, Las tres Pascualas, and Casamiento de negros
- Restaging the Object : A Participatory Exploration of Long Kesh/Maze Prison
- Reviving the William Liddell Collection : Shuttles and Shafts
- Scoping a Justificatory Narrative for Design Practice in Research : Some Epistemological Intersections in Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger
- SetoMonogatari Series 5, 6, 7 & 8
- Slab City
- Speaking of Silence, Speaking of Art, Abortion and Ireland
- Speaking the Truth to Power: Parrhesia, Critical Inquiry and Education in Prisons
- Spheres of Practice for the Co-design of Wearables
- Street Flower, Paris Photo CCI Weekend Focus On Photography, Espace Lhomond Paris, 12-15 November, 2015
- Talking Sheds : "Home" Ned Jackson Smyth, Penny Brewill, Helen Bradbury,The Oriel Gallery, Clotworthy House, Antrim
- The Amnesiac
- The Bully Pulpit
- The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present. : Edited by Martin Parr and Wassink Lundgren
- The Construction of a Utopian Model - Helsinki Photography Biennial
- The Lament of the Accolade Tree
- The List: Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
- The Path to the Distribution Point of Light - The Untold Want
- The Photobook: A History Volume 3
- The Rebel of the Chinese School: Modernist Expression in A Da's Late Animations
- The Second Shift
- The Shadow of Sodeisha, Japanese and Irish Art in Clay. Exhibition : The National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin. 2017-2018
- The SMUGGLERS HEAD
- The spectacle of masculinity : Men and the visual culture of the suffrage campaign
- They Dropped Like Flakes, They Dropped Like Stars
- Things Left Unsaid
- Violeta Parra: Life and Work
- Violeta Parra’s Visual Art : Painted Songs
- Wait Watchers
- Where the Lines End
- Who Killed Marthe Bonnard : Madness, Morbidity and Pierre Bonnard's 'The Bath'
- Zombie Line
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