Research Staff

Professor Caroline Archer-Parré

Professor of Typography

Caroline Archer-Parré is Professor of Typography, Co-director of the Centre for Printing History & Culture at Birmingham City University/University of Birmingham, and Chair of the Baskerville Society. With particular interest in typographic history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, Caroline has published widely and is...

Dr Maria Caserio

Researcher

Details of present and previous employment Presently: Researcher for Birmingham City University, Birmingham School of Architecture Previously: September 2012 – January 2013 Researcher for the University of Birmingham, Department of Civil Engineering - secondment to Building Research Establishment (BRE). March 2008 – April...

Professor Richard Coles

Professor of Urban Landscape and Environmental Interaction

Richard is Professor of Urban Landscape and Environmental Interaction, having a strong interest in the environment both from biological perspectives and the ways that individuals use and perceive it. His original discipline is forestry but, working within an architectural school and within an art and design faculty, he is in a...

Ravi Deepres

Professor of Moving Image and Photography

Award winning artist, photographer and film maker with an international reputation for focusing on the intersection of the still and moving image. Influences of identity, psychology, social conditioning, historical archives, and scientific cosmological research constantly feed his practice. Expressed through conceptual...

Professor Christian Frost

Director of History, Theory and Cultural Context

Christian Frost qualified as an architect in 1990 following the completion of his studies at the University of Cambridge. He worked in practice, at home and abroad for over ten years before becoming a full time academic in 2001, when he began to research the history of the foundation of Salisbury which has resulted in the...

Zoë Hillyard

Course Director and Senior Lecturer - BA (Hons) Textile Design

Zoë Hillyard is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader 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...

Dr David Prytherch

Senior Research Fellow in Haptics and Computer Interface Design

David Prytherch is Senior Research Fellow in Haptics and Computer Interface Design. Originally trained as a teacher of Art and Design, he has 30 years' professional experience as a freelance glass engraver/sculptor and is a Fellow of the Guild of Glass Engravers. Following a disabling road accident in 1986, and a dawning...

Salman Qureshi

Research Fellow

Dr Salman Qureshi is a Research Fellow at the School of Architecture. His research to date has been funded by the Fellowships awarded by the Leverhulme Trust UK and the Charles Wallace Trust UK. His research orbit is distinctly inter-disciplinary and focuses on the human dimensions of the effects of landscape pattern on urban...

Zoe Robertson

Course Director, BA (Hons) Jewellery Design and Related Products

Award winning jewellery artist Zoe Robertson is a practice based researcher at the School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University. Her studio is based in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham and her work is exhibited within an international arena and images of her work are published extensively, to see more visit the exhibitions...

Dr Panch Suntharalingam

Associate Professor

Dr Panch Suntharalingam is an Associate Professor for International at Birmingham City University and a distinguished academic, researcher, and innovation leader with extensive experience in higher education, internationalisation, knowledge transfer, and industry collaboration. Based in the West Midlands, United Kingdom, he...