Architecture staff
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Dr Mersha Aftab
Associate Professor
Dr. Mersha Aftab is Associate Professor in Design Management at Birmingham City University. Before joining the University in September 2019, she was a Senior Lecturer in Innovation at the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences, Northumbria University, since 2012. In 2006, she finished her BA in fashion and information...
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Dr Ana Araujo
Senior Lecturer
Ana Araujo was trained as an architect, and she currently works in the fields of art curating, research and education. Her interests range across the fields of design, the visual arts, psychology, anthropology and gender studies. Ana also runs an online art gallery which is focused on the investigation of the feminine in art...
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Peter J Baldwin
Head of Architecture and the Built Environment
Peter Baldwin is a Registered and Chartered Architect, artist and academic, and the Head of Architecture and the Built Environment at Birmingham City University. Prior to joining BCU Peter was employed at Loughborough University, serving as Curriculum Development and Accreditation Lead for the Architecture (2023-2025). During...
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Dr Hocine Bougdah
Director of Technical Studies and Sustainability
Dr Hocine Bougdah has an academic and industrial career that extends over 31 years. He recently joined the University as a Director for Technical Studies and Sustainability. Prior to this, he was a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Architecture and Cities at the University of Westminster, London and a research/educational...
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Ijeoma Emeghe
Senior Lecturer
With a background in Real Estate Surveying and Valuation, Ijeoma began her career at Covenant University in Nigeria from 2014 to 2017. During this time, she held a lecturing position where she taught various modules. Alongside her teaching duties, she also took on elected and mandatory administrative tasks, mentoring, and...
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Andrew Hilton
Course Lead BA(Hons) Interior Architecture and Design
Andrew Hilton ARB is a BCU Alumnus (1993-2005), an architect, educator, and researcher with over 30 years’ international practice and teaching experience across architecture, interiors, landscape, and urban regeneration. He is the founder of Choral Studio Ltd (UK) and Urban Synthesis (China), practices that bring research,...
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Helen Iball
Academic Lead for Teaching and Learning; Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Helen is an intersectional feminist architectural academic creatively teaching feminist spatial practice for over twenty-seven years, where she set up PRAXXIS aiming to stimulate a positive intersectional feminist debate in Schools of Architecture. Over nearly ten years of PRAXXIS Helen has taught well over 500 feminist...
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Nicholas Irvin
Senior Lecturer
Nick is a senior lecturer and has experience of writing and managing courses, whilst teaching across a range of modules and courses within the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media, at Birmingham City University. He has experience of leading on the postgraduate Master of Arts, Design Management course in the UK and overseas. He...
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Heba Iskandarani
Course Lead – BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology; Lecturer in Construction and Architectural Technology
A PhD researcher in planning at the school of Built Environment at Birmingham City University, Heba's research focus is in post-conflict reconstruction of the Middle East specifically housing projects.
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Kathryn Jones
Senior Lecturer, Level 6 Lead
Kathryn brings over a decade of experience to her role as a Senior Lecturer on BA Interior Architecture and Design, and has been instrumental in leading, delivering and transforming the course over this period to marry the needs of the evolving industry with the skills and ambitions of the students. As a respected alumni of the...