Our People
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Paula Smith
Senior Lecturer and Joint Programme Leader, Master of Public Health (MPH)
Paula Smith brings a wide range of experience, knowledge and skills to her post including: Practitioner roles - Public Health/Health Promotion practice leading on the implementation of the Dudley Health Inequalities Strategy (for Dudley Community Partnership – job-share); Senior Health Promotion Officer (Community...
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Professor Rob Smith
Professor of Education
Rob is a teacher and researcher who supervises students researching a range of doctoral topics relating to education. He also supports staff and students undertaking research in his role within CSPACE. He has extensive experience of writing and publishing collaboratively.
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Dion Smyth
Senior Lecturer (Cancer and Palliative Care)
Dion Smyth is a senior lecturer in cancer and palliative care, and teaches on both the undergraduate pre and post-registration curriculum and postgraduate courses. In the pre-registration BSc Nursing programme, Dion coordinates the module Nursing Practice 2, which addresses cancer, immunology, auto-immune conditions such as...
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Professor John Sparrow
Professor of Occupational Psychology
John Sparrow, as a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society, has used his unique skill set to write extensively on knowledge processes in organisations, including organisational cognition, knowledge management and reflective practice as they relate to knowledge creation and use.
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Bernie St Aubyn
Senior Lecturer (Adult Nursing), Department of Pre-Qualifying Practice
Bernie aims to teach in a clear, engaging and inspiring fashion and to enthuse students with the love of nursing.
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Dr Charlotte Stevens
Lecturer in Media and Communication
Charlotte works mainly in television and fandom studies, with a strong interest in archival and historical aspects of audiences. She also co-leads the Game Cultures research cluster. Charlotte has published on fanvids, video game fan histories, screen vampires, and poetic television documentaries on the BBC. She is currently...
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Lynda Stobert
Senior Lecturer MSc Public Health
Lynda Stobert is the Programme Director to the MSc Public Health Programme and is also the module lead for the Social Science and Public Health module delivered on the course. She has extensive experience in teaching healthcare and public health students across a range of modules related to the sociology of health and illness,...
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Dr Panch Suntharalingam
Course Director for MA Design and Visualisation
Dr Panch Suntharalingam is currently the Course Director for MA Design and Visualisation at Birmingham City University. He teaches product design, interior design and interior products design in the UK and abroad and his areas of expertise and interests include: design and visualisation, engineering product design, industrial...
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Aydan Suphi
Senior Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy
Aydan worked as a Speech and Language Therapist in the NHS for over 20 years, before moving to higher education in 2012. Her clinical experience includes working with children and young people with language disorders, people with complex needs, including down syndrome, and people from diverse cultural and linguistic...
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Dr Stephen Swann
Senior Lecturer
Dr Stephen Swann lectured at Oxford Brookes University, the University of Leicester and the University of Dundee before becoming a teaching and research fellow at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. He has been a Research Assistant within the Property and Trust Law Team at the Law Commission.