Our staff
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Adam Guy
Course Director and Senior Lecturer, BA (Hons) Fashion Branding and Communication
Adam is a Creative Director and educator who works across print and moving image. He has 25 years working with music industry clients at Radio 1, 1Xtra and art directed print publications for fashion publishers such as EMAP. Adam was a founding member of the motion graphics studio Mainframe. More recently Adam has enjoyed...
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Julie Haynes
Senior Fashion Technician
Julie works for Fashion Design and has many years of sewing experience having worked in the industry on mass production, with experiences in roles such as a sample machinist and supervisor. She also has experience with working on alterations from tailored garments to evening wear and many others. Julies role as a technician...
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Zoë Hillyard
Senior Lecturer and Course Leader
Zoë Hillyard is a Senior Lecture and Course Director for BA(Hons) Textile Design at Birmingham City University. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and has over 20 years of lecturing experience in both national and international contexts. Zoe is also an established textile artist craft practitioner...
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Lucinda Holbrook-Hase
Pattern Cutting Lecturer / Level 5 Co-Ordinator
Lucinda is a Pattern Cutting Lecturer and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) with 7 years lecturing experience in HE. She began teaching fashion design and pattern cutting in 2008 at both further education and vocational education courses. Teaching Fashion, Costume and Millinery, she also was the Course Lead for a...
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Clare Langford
Lecturer in Textile Design
Clare Langford is a Textile Design Lecturer and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) with over 20 years of lecturing experience. She holds a first-class BA (Hons) in Constructed Textile Design (specialising in weave), and a PGCert in Enhancing Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. She’s currently the Schools...
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Sabine Lettmann
Senior Lecturer
Sabine started teaching fashion design in 2015. Since then, she teaches diverse fashion design related subjects with an emphasis on sustainability across different fashion programmes in Germany, Denmark and the UK including BA and MA level. She also shares her work through workshops and guest lectures and has been invited to...
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Jasmin Loyal
Lecturer in MA Fashion Media
Jasmin has spent over 15 years working as a creative in the menswear sector. Her experience ranges from fashion buying to product and brand development/innovation, and working for international retail brands such as the UK's largest retailer, Next. As well as teaching at BCU, Jasmin works on various projects specifically...
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Nahida Mahmood
Senior Technical Administrator
Nahida loves that there are so many techniques and processes to play within embroidery, where for her it can be just as exciting an outcome from using just a needle and thread to using the latest technology of a big industrial, digital, multi-needle machine and lots in between. Nahida works with domestic/freehand machines,...
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Louise Martin
Foundation Year Course Director
Louise’s Masters in textile design established the foundation for her design journey. From this platform, Louise started to build a career as an interior designer, regional design manager, stylist, and as a lecturer in fashion and textiles. Louise now has over 10 years' teaching experience as a lecturer. As a designer...
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Natalie Martin
Lecturer in Foundation Fashion and Textiles
After graduating with BA (Hons) Fashion Design from BCU Natalie has worked with brands such as Joseph Turvey and Hades Knitwear as a freelance designer, production assistant and illustrator as well as working on show production for presentations at London Fashion Week Mens. Working hands-on with small, luxury brands has enabled...