Chris Mcginley Email and Phone Number

Chris is a Senior Research Fellow based at the Royal College of Art (RCA). He leads the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design's (HHCDs) Age & Diversity Research Space, and is the Design Research Lead for the Design Age Institute (DAI). His work endeavours to consider the broadest dimensions of age and diversity, actively including groups that remain under-represented. He approaches projects in a way that inspires empathy, engagement, and empowerment, towards affecting positive change through design in everyday life and experience. He is an award-winning people-centred designer, researcher and writer having worked in the field of inclusive design for over 20 years on a broad range of projects, which have been successfully commercialised, exhibited and disseminated internationally. His research interests explore inclusive design, progressing design ethnography and the role of empathy towards creating people-centred design proposals that improve lives. He was research lead of several highly successful, high-profile collaborative projects, such as ‘Design Bugs Out’ with PearsonLloyd and Kirkton Healthcare, which was tendered by the Design Council and funded by the Department of Health. The resulting award-winning hospital commode redesign is widely used in the UK and Europe, and features in the permanent collection of the Design Museum. At the Centre he has led the research-to-design translation on a range of projects that include: medication packaging to address compliance issues with GlaxoSmithKline; cooker redesigns with a focus on the elderly for Osaka Gas, Japan; domestic lighting design for people with low vision, for the Thomas Pocklington Trust; landscape design for adults with Autism for the Kingwood Trust; and community connection projects for a number of tech companies such as Research In Motion.Chris is a principal researcher/designer on a range of projects at the HHCD, and leads on all ‘age and diversity’ projects for a host of major global private, public and third sector companies.