Our staff
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Alex King
Lecturer
Alex King is lecturer on the BA Interior Architecture and Design course. She has a MA in Architecture from the University of Edinburgh, a Part II Graduate Diploma from the University of Westminster, and is a Fellow of the HEA. Alex has worked within architectural practice and interior design across various locations including...
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Sarah King
Visiting Tutor – Materials Research and Sustainability
Sarah is a circular economy researcher, sustainability, and innovation consultant with experience in project management, design led research, and systems change. For the last eight years she has worked closely with businesses and academic institutions to educate and identify innovation opportunities in response to current...
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Dr Rui Aristides Lebre
Lecturer in Architecture
Rui is an architect and academic devoted to the study of the social, cultural and political implications of space production. His research has involved questioning the political entanglements of Portuguese modern architecture culture (PhD 2017), understanding the role of colonial expert networks in setting the terms for...
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Professor Kathryn Moore
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Kathryn Moore, President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) and Professor of Landscape Architecture at Birmingham City University has published extensively on design quality, theory, education and practice. Her book Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design (2010) provides the basis for...
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Eccles Ng
Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture & Course Director for BA Landscape Architecture and BA Landscape Architecture with Urban Design
Eccles Ng is a Chartered Landscape Architect who became a Chartered Member of Landscape Institute (CMLI) in 2009. He has been in the landscape architecture industry since 2003 and designed on a variety of education, healthcare, housing and urban design projects. With a wide ranging portfolio from art to architecture and...
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Jason Nicholson
Product and Furniture Design Course Leader
From a career journey beginning in metalsmithing and related products, Jason has a wide experience in various product design sectors – in particular furniture and lighting design. He has taught across a range of specialist courses, focussing and developing ‘making’ as an integral part of the design process. A ‘hands-on’...
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Victoria Paterson Burke
Lecturer in Interior Architecture and Design
Victoria has a strong affiliation with Birmingham City University (BCU), having graduated from there in 2005 when it was known as the University of Central England (UCE). Since graduating Victoria has been a proactive Alumna, initially supporting UCE work placement students during her time in practice, before establishing a...
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Wayne Pottinger
Product and Furniture Design lecturer
Wayne Pottinger is a lecturer and coordinator of the level five (second year) Product and Furniture Design course. Before joining Birmingham City University Wayne established his own design practice alongside Natalie Cole. Pottinger and Cole’s practice designed and developed products for retail and their objects were stocked in...
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Daniel Salisbury
Hard Materials Technician
As a general technician, Daniel tends to work across a broad range of areas within the workshops from metal and woodwork to CAD/CAM based processes as well as ceramics, glass, silicones and resins offering support for areas in product design, interiors design, architecture and landscape architecture.
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Professor Rachel Sara
Oscar Naddermier Professor of Architecture | National Teaching Fellow
Rachel’s research explores the way in which health and wellbeing can be affected by architecture and design. She also explores ‘other' forms of architecture, specifically examining transdisciplinary architecture practices through collaborations between architecture and dance, co-design and hands-on, community-based...