Academic Expert Profiles
Experts in the faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences.
Our Business, Law and Social Sciences faculty has an abundance of academics with a wealth of knowledge and a passion for teaching. Our experts range from lawyers to entrepreneurs, all with their own real life experiences of working in the industry they now teach.
Meet the Experts
Alice Storey
Dr Alice Storey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Associate Director of the Centre for Human Rights. She leads the Human Rights in America & American Criminal Procedure and Evidence LLB...
Laura Hammond
Laura's research has focused on a wide range of related areas, from spatial patterns in crime and Geographical Profiling to investigative processes and decision-making, the modelling of crime and s...
Aris Terzopoulos
Aris started his career working with children in primary education and assessing and supporting children with special needs. In order to improve his impact on students he completed in 2009 an MA de...
Ronald Winch
Ron served for over thirty years with the Metropolitan Police Service and West Midlands Police. These included front-line CID roles, as well as senior command roles in local policing, public order ...
Michael Brookes
Professor Michael Brookes OBE was formerly Director of Therapeutic Communities at HMP Grendon where for 11 years he was the clinical lead within this accredited therapeutic community prison.
Craig Jackson
Craig is an Occupational Health Psychologist who has been researching the relationship between peoples’ work and their health and wellbeing since the late 1990s. He also studies the relations...
Rebecca Smyth
Rebecca is a Lecturer in Law, specialising in international human rights law. She focuses on women’s and LGBTQ* rights, and the tensions arising from historically oppressed groups engaging wi...
Iyan Offor
Dr Iyan Offor is a Senior Lecturer in Law and leader of the Animals, Nature & Society Research Stream within Birmingham City University's Centre fo...
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Social Sciences
The School of Social Sciences aims to create real-world impact across the themes of sociology, psychology and criminology.
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The wide range of experiences, skills and specialisms within the faculty allow us to have one of the most diverse business research degree portfolios in the country.
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Through its international outlook, interdisciplinary engagement, and collaborative ethos, the School of Law produces research that promotes social justice world-wide.
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