TEE : Our Staff

Our Staff

David Adams BSc, MA, PGCert
Lecturer in Planning
David is a Lecturer in the School of Property, Construction and Planning and has worked for Birmingham City University since 2008. Prior to this David was a Planning Policy and Research Officer at Staffordshire County Council and started his career as Planning Assistant at North West Leicestershire District Council. During his time at Staffordshire County Council, David was employed as a...

Jahangir Akhtar MBA, MSc, PgCert
Senior Lecturer
Jahangir is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering, Design and Manufacturing Systems. Jahangir worked in the electronics industry and manufacturing systems, prior to moving into the public sector to work on accessing European funds for the City Council and provide training support local businesses. He worked with Rover Group and their supplier development programs and later joined...

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...

Abdul-Rasheed Amidu BSc (Hons), PGCert, MSc
Lecturer
Abdul-Rasheed is Lecturer in the School of Property, Construction and Planning. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in real estate valuation, real estate investment analysis, development appraisal and business and development finance. Prior to joining the School of Property, Construction and Planning at Birmingham City University, Abdul-Rasheed was a lecturer at the Department...

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...

Peter Barrett LLb (Hons), PGDip, Cert,Ed., Dip LA., FRICS
Director of Postgraduate Studies
Peter is Director of Postgraduate Studies in the School of Property, Construction and Planning. 1974 – 78 Birmingham City Council Estates Dept 1978 – 1980 Portsmouth City Council Estates Dept 1980 – 83 West Midlands County Council Valuation and Estates Dept 1983 – 89 City of Birmingham Polytechnic School of Estate Management 1989 – 1995...

Ralph Berry
Lecturer
Ralph is a Lecturer in the School of Computing, Telecommunications and Networks. His industrial and business background includes 15 years in the aircraft industry, in which Ralph progressed from trainee sheet metal worker to Civil Aviation Authority approved manager. He personally worked on the prototypes of 3 new British light aircraft, and ended up managing the production of a small batch...

Opkar Bhatti BA(Hons), MA (Hons), MCIM
Business Solutions Manager / Senior Lecturer
Opkar is the Business Solutions Manager and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing, Telecommunications and Networks. After 18 years in a number of Marketing roles in the IT and Retail Industry both here and North America, Opkar has steadily progressed from a purely commercial role within the Faculty to one with greater academic focus, he now astrides equally across both streams. He...