Our staff
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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...
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Lily Savill
3D Workshop Senior Technician
Lily is the Senior Technician for ceramics and plaster based at the Parkside building. She graduated from Central St Martins in 2017 with a BA in Ceramic Design and has since gained a variety of experiences working in design studios, for ceramic artists, within production ceramics and completing artist residencies. More...
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Dr Rasha Sayed Mahmoud
Flying Faculty for BIFCA and Link Tutor for BIFCA & SHAPE
Rasha has a PhD in environmental architecture design and urban planning, and has been in international private practice as a licensed professional architecture consultant for sixteen years. By 2017/2018, Rasha finished her program as a Visiting Scholar at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Urban Planning Department DUSP...
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Martha Schwartz
Visiting Professor
Martha Schwartz has an extensive background in academia, until recently she was a tenured Professor in Practice at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a position she held for 16 years until her retirement. She is a landscape architect, urbanist, and climate activist. Her work and teaching focus on the urban...
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Michael Schwarze-Rodrian
Visiting Professor
Michael Schwarze-Rodrian is a German landscape planner who has combined innovative landscape design with structural change in regional, urban and industrial developments in the Ruhr Region since the mid 1980s. He developed and moderated the Emscher Landscape Park (ELP) as a regional park-system. Until recently he was the...
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Ian Shepherd
Associate Professor / Director of Professional Studies / Course Director Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Practice (Part 3)
Ian has been involved with architectural practice on a professional level since qualifying in 1990. He was a one of the founding partners in Birmingham based D5 Architects LLP where he remained as a consultant until April 2017. In addition to his commitment to architecture and the built environment through the practice, he is...
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Dr Normah Sulaiman
Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
Normah is a passionate educator and a happy globetrotter. She has great PR skills, leading the organisation branding for global industrial engagements and building networks. Normah is resourceful in the field of research benefitting the industry of practise and academia. For the past 14 years, everything she has engaged in...
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Dr Panch Suntharalingam
Course Director for MA Design and Visualisation
Dr Panch Suntharalingam is currently the Course Director for MA Design and Visualisation at Birmingham City University. He teaches product design, interior design and interior products design in the UK and abroad and his areas of expertise and interests include: design and visualisation, engineering product design, industrial...
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Andrew Trujillo
Product and Furniture Design Tutor and Interior Architecture Tutor
Andrew grew up in Colombia, and came to the UK to study a degree in Industrial Design (Transportation). He worked in the marine sector mostly, gaining 27 years of experience and designing yachts from 10M to 107M; Motor and sail, slow and fast. Andrew also designed motor homes, private jet interiors and residential interiors and...
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Doris Van Rooijen
3D General Technician
As a general Technician Doris works across all the 3D workshops at Parkside, assisting students from all courses within the faculty with their projects. Prior to joining the team at BCU, Doris studied BA Product and Furniture Design here, from which Throughout her degree she developed a keen interest in making, and expertise...