Our People
Future Island–Island brings together a multidisciplinary network of researchers, creative practitioners, community partners and industry specialists working across design, architecture, digital technologies, education, materials, heritage and environmental change. Together, the project connects academic research with lived experience, practical making and community knowledge.
Across the partnership, more than 200 contributors have helped shape the project through collaboration, teaching, fellowships, workshops, research and co-design activity.
Project Management Team
Prof Justin Magee
Director
Dr Clare Mulholland
Co-Director
Gillian Colhoun
Strategic Development Manager
Cali Plahe
Project Delivery Manager
Amber Wilson
Marketing & Communications Coordinator
Jonny Lynn
Multimedia Designer
Ulster University
Queen's University Belfast
The Glasgow School of Art
University of the Arts London
Co-Investigators
- Big Motive
- BigSmall Design
- Card Group
- CHARTS
- Future Ready Lab
- Hub Games
- Malcolm Beattie
- NAARCA
- National Museums Northern Ireland (NMNI)
- Plaswire
- Queen’s University, Belfast
- Rathlin Development Community Association (RDCA)
- RSPB
- The Big Idea
- The Glasgow School of Art
- The Odyssey Trust, W5
- Todd Architects
- Ulster University
- University of the Arts London
- Void Art Centre
- Yellow Design
Researchers 2023 – 2025
- Dr Jessica Bates
- Dr Ruth Brolly
- Prof Tony Byrne
- Prof Darryl Charles
- Dr Yuanyuan Chen
- Sarah Dargie
- Dr Brian Dixon
- Anna Duffy
- Dr Patrick Dunlop
- Prof Pilar Fernandes-Ibanez
- Austyn Finnigan
- Prof Karen Fleming
- Prof Raffaella Folli
- Dr Maxim Fomin
- Dr Wes Forsythe
- Prof Alison Gault
- Dr Saul Golden
- Jennifer Jackson-Smyth
- Prof Declan Keeney
- Dr Nina Liebhaber
- Dominic Logan
- Prof Frank Lyons
- Dr Cormac McGarrigle
- Martin McGinn
- Prof Alistair McIlhagger
- Aodhan McNicholl
- Eoghain Meakin
- Dr Henry Melki
- Prof Ian Montgomery
- Prof Paul Moore
- Prof Karl O’Connor
- Philip O’Neill
- Alec Parkin
- Dr Kirsty Pourshahidi
- Dr Susann Power
- Terry Quigley
- Justin Quinn
- Eleanor Venn
Partner Organisations
- Accelerate Group (via DSIT/UKSP)
- Action Renewables
- AMIC
- An Taisce
- Axial 3D
- Belfast City Council
- Birney Architects
- Bureau SLA
- Carson McDowell
- Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council
- Causeway Coast & Glens Heritage Trust
- ChangeMakers Donegal
- Clear Angle Studios
- Commissioners of Irish Lights
- Donegal Yarn Spinning Mill Limited
- East Light Board
- Education Authority
- Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
- Fibreshed Ireland
- HVM Catapult, QUB
- MMAS Architecture
- MTU Circular Bioeconomy Cluster
- NI High Performance Computing (NI – HPC)
- Northern Ireland Resources Network (NIRN)
- Policy Profession
- Sustainable NI
- Ulster Wildlife
- World Design Organisation
PhD Professional Development Internships
1 year:
- Brian Morgan
- Katrina Newell
- Cormac McCaughey
- Gillian Steel
Short term Part-time:
- Aiden O’Neill
- Lilyana Yazirlioglu