Our People
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Dr Christopher Bolton
Senior Lecturer in Drama Education
Chris is a Senior Lecturer in Drama Education here at BCU. Before this role, he worked in secondary schools as a Drama Advanced Skills Teacher. He has a keen interest in how drama pedagogy can create spaces for dialogic learning within Initial Teacher Education. Additionally, this interest has resulted in exploring...
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Dr Paola Botham
Senior Lecturer in Drama
Dr Paola Botham (née Sotomayor) teaches theatre history and theory in several programmes at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (RBC) , including Acting and Applied Theatre. She was born in Chile, where she studied Journalism and Aesthetics at Universidad Católica (ranked among the top academic institutions in Latin America)...
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Dr Anne Boultwood
Reader in the Psychology of Fashion
Anne Boultwood is Reader in the Psychology of Fashion for the School of Fashion and Textiles . She supervises a number of students in related areas, and also established and leads the Fashion and Textiles Research Group . Her primary research focus is the role of fashion and clothing in the construction and maintenance of...
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Paul Bradshaw
Course Leader
Paul Bradshaw leads the MA in Data Journalism at Birmingham City University, and works as a consultant data journalist in the BBC England data unit. He is also the founder of the investigative journalism crowdsourcing site, Help Me Investigate , which was shortlisted in 2010 for Multimedia Publisher of the Year and won...
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Professor Michael Brookes OBE
Professor, MSc Forensic Psychology
Professor Michael Brookes was formerly Director of Therapeutic Communities at HMP Grendon where for eleven years he was the clinical lead within this accredited therapeutic community prison.
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Dr Martyn Brown
Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies and Coordinating Director of Post Graduate Framework Degrees
Dr Martyn Brown's varied career, which included working within engineering, events management and marketing consultancy, has given him a wealth of experience that he now passes on as a senior lecturer in Organisational Studies.
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Professor Mike Brown
Professor of Corporate Reputation and Strategy
Mike Brown is Head of the Centre for Corporate Reputation and Strategy at Birmingham City Business School and the founder of the ‘Britain’s Most Admired Companies’ research published annually in Management Today. With a PhD from York University he has published in a number of management journals, contributed to a number of...
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Dr Peter Bull
Lecturer
From 2007-2012, Peter worked as a Research Engineer, on a collaborative doctoral project with BAE Systems and Loughborough University. This research focused on the development of a “Quality of Service Framework for Dynamic and Dependable Systems”. Following on from this, Peter was employed as a Research Associate within the...
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Charlotte Burnside
Deputy Head of Health and Care Professionals
Charlotte graduated from University of Central England in 1999 with a BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Radiography; then she completed a Pg Diploma and MSc in Advanced Practice Nuclear Imaging at Salford University in 2006. She was practising as a Diagnostic Radiographer from 1999-2008 specialising in Radionuclide Imaging. In 2008...
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Dr Ann-Marie Carey
Associate Professor
Ann-Marie is a Research Fellow in the School of Jewellery. She specialises in combining craftsmanship with laser technology to introduce new perspectives of understanding. She has worked with museums in London and Birmingham to create replicas of the Cheapside Hoard and Staffordshire Hoard respectively. In her academic...