TEE DMT : Our Staff

Our Staff

Islah Ali-MacLachlan BSc (Hons)
Senior Lecturer
Islah is a Senior Lecturer and Course Director of BSc (Hons) Sound and Multimedia Technology , lecturing across a broad range of subject areas including production, live sound engineering and musical instrument design. His research covers the use of signal analysis techniques applied to musical playing styles. He is also a busy musician and sound engineer, each having a positive effect on his...

Phil Arch
Senior Academic
Phil's Birmingham City University career has provided him with the opportunity to develop a broad business development, applied research and academic portfolio. The key components of this portfolio are listed below: Creation and development and management of Knowledge Transfer and Skills Upgrade models that have been successfully utilised to help small and medium sized companies (Automotive,...

Dr Cham Athwal BSc, MSc, PhD, MIET
Associate Head of School (Research)
Cham Athwal is an experienced lecturer and researcher who has led numerous technology transfer projects. He has skills and knowledge in several areas of IT including Software Development, Web Technologies and Multimedia. Latterly he has concentrated on the areas of image and video processing, 3D modelling, animation and virtual reality. He has a PhD in Physics and had a career as a research...

Dr Zlatko Baracskai BA (Hons)
Lecturer
Many years of experience with music production, performance, composition, programming and digital audio allowed Zlatko to teach related modules at this level. He speaks four languages fluently excluding programming languages, He has lectured and held presentations across europe to settle in Birmingham where he has excellent teaching and research circumstances having time over to make music which...

Michael Bickerton BA (Hons), MA
Lecturer
Michael Bickerton is Course Director for BSc (Hons) Film Production and Technology . Since 1997, Michael has been involved with Moving Image production as well as lecturing on a range of Moving Image courses (including the highly successful UK Film Council's Introduction to Screenwriting courses in the West Midlands Region). Prior to his current responsibility as Course Director for...

Dr Andrew Bourbon BMus (Hons), PhD
Senior Lecturer
Dr Andrew Bourbon is a Senior Lecturer and Course Director of BSc (Hons) Sound Engineering and Production . Andrew studies for his BMus at the University of Birmingham and continued there, completing a PhD in musical composition. At the same time andrew was working as a sound engineer, both in live sound and in the studio. Whilst studying Andrew also taught on the BMus programme as a visiting...

Alan Dolhasz BSc (Hons)
Visiting Tutor
Alan’s first active encounters with music began when he started a rock band in his hometown of Brzeg, Poland. It was during the recording of their EP when he became mesmerised by the process of sound recording and production. His language skills allowed him to move to Birmingham and start a Sound Engineering and Production course at Birmingham City University. During this time he...

Jerry Foss
Lecturer
Jerry is a Lecturer in the School of Digital Media Technology, he joined the University in 2005. Jerry has thirty years’ experience in telecommunications research and development in intelligent networks, data communications protocols, interactive services, media distribution, broadband access and services development, defense communications contracts, network architectures and...

Stephen Gordon
Senior Lecturer
Stephen Gordon is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Digital Media Technology and Course Director for BSc (Hons) Television Technology and Production . He has worked for five years at the University and teaches video production on the BSc (Hons) Television Technology and Production course. Giving students the skills needed to work in the industry is central to how Stephen Gordon...

Valentina Ippolito BA (Hons), MA
Lecturer
Valentina is a Lecturer at the School of Digital Media Technology. She holds a Master’s Degree in Documentary by Practice from Royal Holloway University. Valentina has been involved in teaching a variety of media modules such as Content Acquisition, Screen Studies, Digital Editing and Documentary Production. She is also an active filmmaker: her main areas of research focus on the...