The women who make up the group

Professor Joy Notter

Professor of Community Healthcare Studies

Professor Joy Notter is Professor of Community Healthcare at Birmingham City University. She trained as a nurse in the Nightingale Training School, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, her final post there being charge nurse in medical cardiology she then trained as a health visitor and worked in Stockwell and Brixton. She gained a...

Emerita Professor Fatemeh Rabiee-Khan

Professor of Public Health Promotion

Emerita Professor Fatemeh Rabiee is a professor in Public Health Promotion and a registered Public Health Nutritionist with extensive experience of teaching, research, and research supervision in UK, Iran, Netherlands, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and other countries of economic transition. She has initiated, designed,...

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...

Jackie Stephen-Haynes

Professor

Jackie Stephen-Haynes completed her RGN in 1984, specialising in orthopaedics and then, more specifically, rheumatology. Working in a rheumatology specialist unit, her interest in tissue viability began with an audit of wounds and a focus on pressure ulcer prevention. The increasing emphasis on primary care led to Jackie...

Hannah Vowles

Emeritus Professor of Architecture

Hannah studied architecture at Kingston and the Architectural Association. She worked in architectural practice for 10 years, in both the public and private sector. Hannah founded collaborative art practice / project Art in Ruins with artist Glyn Banks making exhibitions, installations, publishing critical writing, curating...

Professor Wenyan Wu

Professor in Advanced System Engineering

Prof Wenyan Wu is a Professor in Advanced System Engineering in the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment at Birmingham City University. She has extensive interdisciplinary research and teaching experience across Computing, Engineering and Technology. Her knowledge and expertise are across boundaries of...