Staff

Professor Anthony Downey

Professor of Visual Culture

Dr. Anthony Downey is Professor of Visual Culture, with a focus on the Middle East and Global South (Birmingham City University). Developing national and international partnerships with artists and cultural organisations, Downey's interdisciplinary research contributes to and supports a critical understanding of postcolonial...

Dr. Lisa Metherell

Senior Lecturer in Art and Design

Dr Lisa Metherell is Research Degree Coordinator, supporting PhD students across Art and Design. She co-leads the Art Activisms research cluster . Lisa's research is particularly informed by the tensions between queer theory and phenomenology and how what we 'know' might be usefully troubled by what we 'feel'. She is...

Theo Reeves-Evison

Senior Lecturer in Theoretical and Contextual Studies

Dr. Theo Reeves-Evison is a writer, researcher and Senior Lecturer in Theoretical and Contextual Studies, where his research focuses on the critical imbrications of Art, Ecology and Visual Culture. From 2018-22 he was the principal investigator on the Leverhulme funded research project ‘Speculative Natures: Contemporary Art...

Dr Sian Vaughan

Associate Professor in Research Practice

Dr Sian Vaughan is Associate Professor in Research Practice and she leads RAAD – the centre for research in art, architecture, and design at Birmingham City University, providing strategic leadership, coordination, and care for a growing community of researchers. Sian is an internationally recognised researcher with...

Stuart Whipps

Associate Professor in Photography

Stuart Whipps is an artist based in Birmingham, UK. He often makes work about things he doesn’t understand and doesn’t know how to do. Recently this includes restoring a 1979 Mini with the assistance of former British Leyland workers, training to make geological thin sections at the University of Birmingham, and propagating...