Art, Architecture and Design Research Staff
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Dr Carla Hamer
Senior Lecturer in Artistic Research (Culture and Language)
Carla is a n artist, researcher and Senior Lecture r based in the Art Activisms research cluster . She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and leads the CLiC team (Communities for Learning in the context of Art, Design and Media). Her interdisciplinary research connects...
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Zoë Hillyard
Senior Lecturer | BA (Hons) Textile Design
Zoë Hillyard is a Senior Lecture 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...
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Dr Sian Hindle
Senior Lecturer in the History of Jewellery
Sian Hindle is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Jewellery. Her research interests centre on jewellery as an element of dress, and she holds a PhD exploring how jewellery’s wear and use can contribute to the formation of individual and collective identities. The thesis sits at the intersection of a number of disciplines, and...
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Theo Inglis
Lecturer in Graphic Design
Theo Inglis joined Birmingham City University in 2024 as a full-time lecturer on the BA Graphic Design course. He studied Graphic Design at Norwich University of the Arts and completed an MA in Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. Theo has over ten years of professional design experience, including...
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Dr Colette Jeffrey
Associate Professor of Wayfinding & Inclusive Design
Dr Colette Jeffrey is an Associate Professor of Wayfinding and Inclusive Design at Birmingham City University where she teaches wayfinding and graphic design on the BA(Hons) Graphic Design course, supervises PhDs, and researches real-world wayfinding behaviour. Her PhD investigated why people get lost in buildings and the...
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Professor Jiehong Jiang
Head of Research
Professor Jiang Jiehong is Head of Research (Art), Director of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University, and he is also Principal Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Intellect). Jiang has extensive research and curatorial experiences in contemporary art and visual culture. Jiang...
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Max Olof Karlsson Wisotsky
Lecturer in Architecture & Course Director BA Architecture
Max Wisotsky is a lecturer and head of Year Two architecture at Birmingham City University. His personal research and design ethos is centred around ideas of authenticity, narrative, and creating spaces representative of the people who will be using them — using the local and vernacular ideas of culture, design,...
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Dr Yazid Khemri
Lecturer in Architecture
Dr Yazid Khemri has been involved in practice, research and teaching of Architecture for a decade. Yazid was awarded a PhD in Architecture by the University of Portsmouth, where he was also teaching across Design Studio, Technology and History and Theory. He holds an Architect diploma and an MSc in Architecture and Sustainable...
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Dr Rui Aristides Lebre
Lecturer in Architecture
Rui is an architect and academic devoted to the study of the social, cultural and political implications of space production. His research has involved questioning the political entanglements of Portuguese modern architecture culture (PhD 2017), understanding the role of colonial expert networks in setting the terms for...
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Sabine Lettmann
Senior Lecturer - BA (Hons) Fashion Design
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...