Research staff

Dr Hazel Ann Nash

Senior Lecturer in Planning and Property Law

Hazel is an experienced practitioner, having worked in private industry and central and local Government planning positions. She has previously worked for a variety of rural and urban local authorities in Development Management as well as in the Planning Policy Division of the Welsh Government where she led on the revision of...

Claudia Carter

Reader in Environmental Governance / Associate Professor

Claudia is Associate Professor in the field of interdisciplinary environmental research and environmental governance. Her research relates to climate change and sustainability adopting social-ecological systems thinking/approaches. Her main areas of interest are the opportunities and barriers to 'low-impact' living and the...

Dr Beck Collins

Senior Lecturer

Dr Beck Collins currently teaches across all undergraduate courses in the School of the Built Environment, as well as MSc Construction Project Management and MA Planning Built Environments. Beck was awarded her PhD in “Local Projects for Sustainable Energy – Exploring the Nature of Success” in 2014, and is interested in...

Dr Silvia Gullino

Associate Professor in City Making and Course Leader for the MPlan/BSc Property Development and Planning

Silvia holds a BA and MA in Architecture and an MSc in Environmental Engineering, both from the Politecnico di Torino. She gained her PhD in Spatial Planning at the Politecnico di Milano in 2005 and conducted postdoctoral research as a Senior Fellow in International Urban Studies at the Institute for Policy Studies at...

Professor David Higgins

Professor of Real Estate

Dr David Higgins is the Professor of Real Estate, Birmingham City University and past Visiting Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Xiamen University, China. David has worked in both industry and academia in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and China. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered...

Professor Peter Larkham

Professor of Planning

Peter Larkham is Professor of Planning at the University’s School of Engineering and the Built Environment. He teaches on the BSc (Hons) courses in Building Surveying, Property Development and Planning, and Real Estate, as well as the MA Planning Built Environments and the Postgraduate Certificate in...

Mr Timothy Lee

Lecturer

Tim ran his own property management and estate agency firm on the Isle of Wight for over ten years; during this time, he completed his MSc in Real Estate Surveying via distance learning at Northumbria University. He went on to Reading University where he obtained his PhD in Domestic Energy Efficiency. He then worked at...

Dr Monica Mateo-Garcia

Lecturer in Built Environment

Dr. Monica Mateo-Garcia is a Lecturer in Built Environment at the School of Engineering and the Built Environment. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses across the School. Monica is an Architect with over 10 years' professional and academic experience. She holds an MPhil and a PhD in Architecture and...

Dr Mohammad Mayouf

Senior Lecturer in Digital Built Environment

Mohammad comes from a Civil Engineering background, which was obtained from Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus in 2010. Following his undergraduate degree, Mohammad worked for a year in the industry, and came to England in 2011 to pursue an MSc degree in Project Management at Teesside University. In 2012, he was...

Professor Nick Morton

Associate Dean (Student Experience)

Nick is Head of the School of Engineering and the Built Environment, having joined what is now Birmingham City University in 2003. He was Course Leader for the School’s RTPI-accredited undergraduate planning degrees for a number of years, including leading the design of the BSc (Hons) Planning & Development route in 2006, and...