Art, Architecture and Design Research Staff
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Dr Jacqueline Taylor
Senior Lecturer in Research Practice
Jacqueline Taylor is an artist, writer, researcher and educator. She is the doctoral education lead for the faculty of Arts, Design and Media where she develops and delivers research training for PhD researchers. Her teaching specialism lies in the area of practice research and she has presented, taught and published widely on...
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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...
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Gavin Wade
Senior Research Fellow
Gavin Wade is an award winning artist-curator, influential public gallery director of Eastside Projects and producer and curator of world-class public art, exhibition making, writing, and publishing over the last two decades. Wade is a pragmatic utopian. His practice combines upcycling, re-enactment and developing exhibiting...
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Cathy Wade
Course Leader MA Arts and Education Practices
Cathy is an artist, writer and academic whose work is concerned with how art can be created and distributed in collaborative partnerships and through the creation of commons. Her work seeks to understand the experience of contemporary conditions through social practice and is realised as digital video, print, installation,...
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Dr Lauren Walden
Research Fellow in Contemporary Chinese Art
Dr. Lauren Walden is a Research Fellow (former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) in Contemporary Chinese Art at Birmingham City University, UK. Her PhD argued for Surrealist photography as a pivotal vector in the dissemination of non-European iconographies as diverse as Africa, Oceania, Latin America and China, utilising primary...
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Stuart Whipps
Senior Lecturer in Photography
I am interested in a broad definition and application of photography and the dialogue between the photographic image and object.
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Beth White
Senior Lecturer BA (Hons) Fashion Business and Promotion
Beth White is a Senior Lecturer on BA (Hons) Fashion Business and Promotion and the Collaborative Practice co-ordinator and lead for fashion enterprise and employability at Birmingham City University. Beth has published widely on the impact of intellectual negotiation, and participatory democracy and the importance of...
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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...
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Dr Sophie Wood
Course Leader and Senior Lecturer MA Fashion Communication
Dr Sophie Wood is an experienced fashion communications professional and academic. Before joining BCU in 2023, she taught MA International Fashion Marketing at Regent’s University and was the course leader for BA Advertising at University of East London. Sophie is course leader for MA Fashion Communication at BCU and teaches...
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Dr. Jieling Xiao
Reader in Architecture and Sensory Environments | Research Degree Coordinator
Jieling teaches Environmental Design across different architecture courses. Trained as an architect and urban designer, Jieling believes that designers need to consider more than just how the hardware of architecture functions for its users. Interested in creative spatial practice related to people’s sensory experiences, she...