Members of staff

Dr Zaki Nahaboo

Lecturer in Sociology, Course Leader – BA (Hons) Sociology and BA (Hons) Sociology and Criminology

Dr Zaki Nahaboo joined as Lecturer in Sociology in 2019. He previously taught sociology at Liverpool Hope University and INTO City, University of London. He has research and teaching interests in postcolonial studies and international political sociology.

Professor Matt O'Leary

Professor of Education, Director of CSPACE & College Academic Lead for REF UoA23 (Education)

Professor Dr Matt O’Leary is Professor of Education at Birmingham City University. His main research interests focus on education policy and practice in further and higher education, particularly in the context of the professional learning of educators and the development of pedagogic practice. Professor O’Leary is one of the...

Dr Karen Patel

Research Fellow

Karen is a Research Fellow based at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR). She is also Director of the Centre for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts (CEDIA) in Arts, Design and Media, and Co-Lead of the Creative Industries Cluster in BCMCR. Karen’s research interests include issues...

Theo Reeves-Evison

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Theo Reeves-Evison is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Birmingham School of Art, where he is working on a funded research project entitled ‘Speculative Natures: Contemporary Art and Interventionist Ecology’. The project investigates how processes of speculation and storytelling have the capacity to organise environmental...

Professor Rob Smith

Professor of Education

Rob is a teacher and researcher who supervises students researching a range of doctoral topics relating to education. He also supports staff and students undertaking research in his role within CSPACE. He has extensive experience of writing and publishing collaboratively.

Dr Alex Wade

Senior Research Fellow

Alex's work is at its best where videogames meet society. Using theory to explore these intersections he looks to the histories of games to explore the formation of society during the Cold War and beyond. Of particular interest in his work are concepts of space, time, consumption as a function of production and the role of...

Esther Windsor

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Art and Design

Esther is a curator, artist, and writer and has curated at Camerawork Gallery and Darkroom, the ICA, The Photographers’ Gallery, and The Royal British Society of Sculptors. Esther established two art school galleries, the waiting room, University of Wolverhampton and mirror, London College of Printing at London Institute (now...