Research students

Find out more about the postgraduate researchers currently working within the Cultures in Education Research Group (CIERG).

Ron Austin

Associate Professor

Ron has 17 years’ industrial experience working for Telewest, Energis and Cable and Wireless. He managed and built the Freeserve network before moving to Cable & Wireless where he managed the network management systems (Operational Systems Support (OSS)) for the Voice Over IP (VOIP) network.
Sarah-Jane Crowson

Doctoral researcher

Sarah is a doctoral researcher investigating the space of small, specialist art colleges in higher education. She works in a small, specialist creative arts college in Herefordshire (Hereford College of Arts) . She believes that working environments and spaces strongly influence our thinking, creativity and...
Dr Kate Glanville

Course Leader, BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS

Kate gained her BA (Hons) degree in Geography from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and returned there to complete her PGCE in Upper Primary Education in 2001/2. Her first teaching role was at a primary school in Walsall where she was appointed Geography Coordinator. Following this, she moved to a secondary school in...
Hannah Malpass

Doctoral researcher

Hannah is a qualified primary school teacher, specialising in Early Years. She graduated from Birmingham City University in 2014, having completed the BA (Hons) in Primary Education with QTS. She has also taught in a smaller school in Worcestershire, where she gained experience teaching in Key Stage One. Hannah has also taught...
Dr K Louise McKnight

Senior Lecturer in Radiography

Louise is a Senior Lecturer in Radiography and Researcher at Birmingham City University. She enjoys teaching and supervising undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral research students. As a diagnostic radiographer, Louise worked in clinical practice for many years and brings that experience to vocational degree teaching in a...
Helen Rees

Doctoral researcher

Helen is passionate about mental healthcare and nursing education. She has worked as a child and adolescent mental health nurse and health visitor before coming into nursing education full time. Helen is starting her research career and looks forward to adding to the body of knowledge around the place of core content in...
David Smith

Doctoral researcher

David has been a British Army Chaplain since 2002. He has completed multiple operational tours (Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Northern Ireland) and has been working in military training environments since 2012, where he taught military ethics.
Nathalie Turville

Senior Lecturer (Children & Young People) / Deputy Director Elizabeth Bryan Multiple Births Centre

Nathalie Turville is Deputy Director of the Elizabeth Bryan Multiple Births Centre. This role includes research involving multiple birth families, development of education resources for health and social care professionals and working with 3 rd sector organisations to raise the profile of the needs of multiple birth families....