Staff profiles

Tracey Perks

Senior Lecturer in Diagnostic Radiography / Course Leader for Preceptorship - MSc Medical Ultrasound

Tracey is a Diagnostic Radiographer with 20 years’ experience, focusing on trauma imaging and student support. She worked clinically in Southampton before moving to Heartlands Hospital as a Senior Radiographer. Tracey moved into academia in 2002 as a senior lecturer with Birmingham City University. She has fulfilled a number...

Lisa Pharaoh-Stokes

Senior Lecturer and Course Lead, MSc Therapeutic Radiography (pre-registration)

Lisa qualified as a Therapeutic Radiographer from the University of Liverpool and the Christie Hospital Manchester. Her experience as a clinical radiographer was at Mount Vernon Hospital. Christie Hospital, Clatterbridge Hospital and Auckland Hospital, New Zealand. Lisa joined the therapeutic radiography teaching team at...

Michelle Ryland

Admissions Tutor / Senior Lecturer - Radiotherapy

Michelle qualified from the University of Liverpool and Northern Centre for Cancer Treatment (Newcastle) in 1999 with a BSc (Hons) in Radiotherapy and started work as a therapeutic radiographer at UHCW. She then moved to London in 2001 and worked at the Royal Marsden Hospital, in Chelsea, as Senior 2/Band 6 clinical...

Gemma Smith

Co-course Lead and Senior Lecturer Medical Ultrasound

Gemma previously worked as a Radiographer and a Sonographer at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS trust for 15 years before joining the BCU lecturing team. Gemma teaches on both the BSc Medical Ultrasound and MSc Medical Ultrasound courses, specialising in teaching of Obstetric, Gynaecological and Abdominal Ultrasound. Gemma is...

Nichola Smith

Senior Lecturer

Nichola graduated from Cardiff University in 2012 with a BSc (Hons) in Diagnostic Radiography and Imaging, and has been working in this field ever since. In her clinical duties, Nichola gained experience in various areas of Diagnostic Radiography, including plain film, and Interventional Radiology. Following a Postgraduate...

Anushka Sumra

Focus Course Lead and Senior Lecturer - Ultrasound

Since studying for her post graduate degree in medical ultrasound in 2009 here at BCU, Anushka has spent the majority of her clinical ultrasound career within a dedicated Womens teaching hospital. Anushka's areas of expertise include obstetrics, gynaecology and paediatric ultrasound. Anushka is fortunate to have an...

Mr Karl White

Senior Lecturer - Diagnostic Radiography

Karl qualified as a diagnostic radiographer in 1999 here at Birmingham City University, although at the time it was called the University of Central England in Birmingham. There has been a generational leap in the way that diagnostic imaging is delivered during his time of practice. When first qualified, photographic...

Nick White

Course Leader

Nick is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Radiography at Birmingham City University and also a clinical tutor within the radiotherapy department at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. Nick has worked in radiography education for 19 years, teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate courses. He is...

Clair Zawada

Faculty Academic Lead and Course Leader MSc Medical Ultrasound

Clair is a Faculty Academic Lead, working on projects and innovations across the Faculty of Health, Education & Life Sciences. Clair is the course lead for the Post Graduate Medical Ultrasound programme. Clair teaches on the BSc (Hons) Radiotherapy programme, using her background as a therapeutic radiographer to inform...