Art, Architecture and Design Research Staff
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Dr Mersha Aftab
MA Design Management Course Director
Dr. Mersha Aftab is a senior lecturer in Design Management and the course director for postgraduate design management courses at Birmingham City University. Before joining the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Media in September 2019, she was a Senior Lecturer in Innovation at the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences,...
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Dr. Alex Albans
Research Fellow in Landscape Architecture
Dr Alex Albans is a Research Fellow at the West Midlands National Park Lab, investigating landscape as a manifestation of the culturally-framed relationships between people and their territories. Alex’s research-informed teaching at BCU focuses on how designers ‘get to know’ the places they’re working with, and how this impacts...
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Dauvit Alexander
Senior Lecturer
Dauvit was born in Scotland in the last days of heavy industry – shipbuilding, steelworks, coal-mining – industries which were in a state of terminal decline as he looked for a career path. A chance invite from a family friend introduced him to the world of fine jewellery making at the age of 14 and he has worked as a bench...
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Dr Nazlı Alimen
Lecturer
Dr. Nazlı Alimen teaches on MA Luxury Brand Management and MA Fashion Management courses and supervises PhD projects at BCU. Before joining BCU in 2019, she taught at London College of Fashion (UAL) and Helsinki and Aalto universities in Finland. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from London College of Fashion, and her...
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Dr Ana Araujo
Senior Lecturer, Course Director MA Interior Architecture and Design
Ana Araujo was trained as an architect, and she currently works in the fields of art curating, research and education. Her interests range across the fields of design, the visual arts, psychology, anthropology and gender studies. Ana also runs an online art gallery which is focused on the investigation of the feminine in art...
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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...
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Brian Bishop
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art; Course Director, BA (Hons) Fine Art
Brian Bishop is an American visual artist and educator based in the UK where he is a Senior Lecturer and Course Director for BA (Hons) Fine Art. He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY; Memphis College of Art in Memphis, TN (BFA 1993); and Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI (MFA 1995). In addition...
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Jaskirt Boora
Lecturer in Photography
Jaskirt is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist whose work focuses on a socially engaged practice, working with local communities. She is interested in celebrating untold stories while exploring visual representations of gender, ethnicity and place. Jaskirt creates work with the aim to empower and give voice to...
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Dr Gary Bratchford
Associate Professor of Photography
Gary Bratchford is a writer, editor & curator, and an Associate Professor of Photography. Gary co-edits Visual Studies Journal, Visual Culture in Britian and co-edits the Palgrave Book Series, Social Visualities. Formally president of the International Sociological Association’s Visual Research Group, Gary is a Fellow of...
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Dr Jemma Browne
Head of the College of Architecture
Jemma is the Head of the College of Architecture. She teaches history and theory of Architecture and Design and coordinates the overall delivery and development of this strand of all the architecture courses, as well as contributing to the development of the architecture research environment and supervising PhD students. ...