Creative Industries expertise
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Dr Islah Ali-MacLachlan
Senior Lecturer
Dr Islah Ali-MacLachlan is a Senior Lecturer and subject lead for acoustics, covering musical, environmental and building acoustics. He has a PhD in Music Research (Birmingham City University), PGDip (IOA) in Acoustics and Noise Control (Derby University) and BSc(Hons) Industrial Design (Technology) (Napier University of...
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Professor Cham Athwal
Associate Head of School (Research)
Cham Athwal is Head of Research in the School of Computing and Digital Media Technology . He teaches on the BSc (Hons) courses for Digital Media Technology , and Sound Engineering and Production . An experienced lecturer and researcher, Cham has led numerous technology transfer projects, as well as working as an...
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Michael Bickerton
Lecturer
Michael Bickerton is a lecturer on the BSc (Hons) Digital Film Production course. Michael has been producing and teaching film for over twenty years. He has international production experience and has taught on prestige courses (such as the UK Film Council’s Introduction to Screenwriting ). He organises the annual ...
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Paul Bradshaw
Course Leader (MA Multiplatform and Mobile Journalism)
Paul Bradshaw leads both the MA in Data Journalism and the MA in Multiplatform and Mobile Journalism at Birmingham City University, and works as a consultant data journalist in the BBC England data unit. He is also the founder of the investigative journalism crowdsourcing site, Help Me Investigate , which was...
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Alan Dolhasz
Research Fellow
Alan is a research fellow at the DMT Lab, specialising in computer vision, image processing and applied machine learning , a s well as focusing on developing working partnerships with external organisations. Through his work on ERDF-funded projects, Alan has delivered support to many SMEs in the West...
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Jerry Foss
Senior Lecturer
Jeremy Foss is a Chartered Engineer and a senior lecturer in Broadcast Engineering at Birmingham City University, UK. He developed the university's successful broadcast engineering BEng and MSc programmes. Prior to his academic role he had thirty years' experience in research and development in telecommunications, including...
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Stephen Gordon
Course Leader
After graduating from Birmingham Polytechnic, Stephen worked as a freelance journalist and scriptwriter for corporate video production. Since joining BCU in 2006, he has designed and delivered modules across a range of Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses, and currently teaches all but one of the practical production...
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Dave Harte
Deputy Head of School and Associate Professor in Journalism and Media Studies
Dave Harte is Associate Professor in Journalism and Media Studies. He researches the emerging trend of local community ‘hyperlocal’ news websites and has published widely on the subject. He has a track record of working with local media companies to support the growth of the creative economy. For many years he has worked...
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Anthony Lewis
Senior Academic
Anthony is a Senior Academic in the School of Digital Media Technology. Originally an applications specialist for a software house Anthony was initially involved in the development of interactive business systems before becoming a senior technical consultant involved in systems integration and implementation of networked...
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Robert Mclaughlin
Lecturer
Robert is a lecturer whose emphasis is on student engagement with industry and external partnership development. He is a Prince2 Practitioner whose area of teaching is industry contextualisation, business, marketing and the work environment. He writes for media focused, genre and technology websites and a semi-regular...
