Research staff

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...

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...

Professor Chris Creed

Professor in Human-Computer Interaction

Professor Creed specialises in the area of Human-Computer Interaction and has extensive experience in leading collaborative technical projects exploring the use of innovative technologies. His core research interest is around the design and development of assistive technology for disabled people across a range of impairments....

Lianne Forbes

Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in BSc Visual Effects

Lianne is a Senior Lecturer with 14 years of high-end VFX film industry experience. Her focus is on forging strong links between the University and industry. She plans to develop student awareness of industry practices and produce more opportunities for them to engage with industry professionals. Lianne has worked on a long...

Dr Maite Frutos-Pascual

Lecturer in Digital Media Technology

Dr Maite Frutos-Pascual is a senior lecturer and active researcher at DMT Lab. She specialises in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), immersive technologies (Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality AR/VR), usability, user analysis, interactive systems and sensor data analysis and integration. She oversees research and industry...

Dr Carlo Harvey

Associate Professor, Director of Future Games and Graphics

Dr Carlo Harvey is an Associate Professor in Computer Games Technology at Birmingham City University, in the School of Computing and Digital Technology. He teaches C++ for Games, Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning. He is the Director of Future Games and Graphics overseeing the research arm for...

Zeeshan Khattak

Lecturer in Digital Media Technology (BIFCA)

Zeeshan has been a lecturer for BCU and BIFCA at the Wuhan Textile University, China since 2018. His expertise lies in teaching media technology and digital video and audio production to levels 5 and 6 students of DMT at BIFCA, while also leading the final year technology project module. Prior to working as a lecturer, since...

Dr Tychonas Michailidis

Research Assistant

Jake O'Connor

Assistant Lecturer

Jake O’Connor works as an Assistant Lecturer in Computer Games Technology, he specialises in game programming and the development of game engines, including graphics rendering and network programming. Jake is also interested in Virtual Reality, and serious games. He has collaborated with Sandwell Trust City...