Our People

Dr Maria Caserio

Researcher

Details of present and previous employment Presently: Researcher for Birmingham City University, Birmingham School of Architecture Previously: September 2012 – January 2013 Researcher for the University of Birmingham, Department of Civil Engineering - secondment to Building Research Establishment (BRE). March 2008 – April...

Mona Casey

Course Leader: MA Fine Art

Mona Casey is MA Fine Art Course Director and Birmingham School of Art International Lead. She is also module leader for the MA programme Models and Methods of Curatorial Practice. Mona was born in Ireland and currently lives in the UK, where she works as a curator, artist and researcher. Mona directs and has initiated a...

Kate Chadwick

Senior Lecturer in Radiotherapy

Kate has worked as a Therapeutic Radiographer in Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre and as a Radiation Therapist in Perth, Western Australia.  Kate joined Birmingham City University in 2006 as a Senior Clinical/Academic Lecturer in Radiotherapy.  During her time at BCU Kate has co-ordinated modules for the BSc and FdSc...

Dr Carrie Churnside

Senior Lecturer in Music & Research Degrees Coordinator

Carrie Churnside is a Senior Lecturer in Music and Research Degrees Coordinator. She is also Director of the Forum for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Music ,  and Chair of the Programme Committee for the 19 th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music . Carrie specialises in Italian Baroque music,...

Seán Clancy

Dublin born composer Seán Clancy’s (b. 1984) music has been described as ‘equal part sacred, seductive and superficial’ (Tempo), and as ‘exploring the tensions between found and original material, narrative and rupture, elite and vernacular values, and between innovation and intervention’ (Journal of Music). His work deals with...

Lamberto Coccioli

Professor of Music and Technology, Associate Principal, Director of the Integra Lab

Coccioli is originally from Italy, where he studied composition with Edgar Alandia and then Azio Corghi at Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan. Of lasting formative influence were also his journeys to remote areas of Colombia to record music and sounds of indigenous and mestizo communities. In a career spanning over 30 years...

Professor Richard Coles

Professor of Urban Landscape and Environmental Interaction

Richard is Professor of Urban Landscape and Environmental Interaction, having a strong interest in the environment both from biological perspectives and the ways that individuals use and perceive it. His original discipline is forestry but, working within an architectural school and within an art and design faculty, he is in a...

Sam Coley

Course Leader MA Media Production and Associate Professor (International)

Sam Coley is an Associate Professor (International) for the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at Birmingham City University. He is also Award Leader for the MA Media Production at Birmingham School of Media, where he teaches a range of undergraduate and postgraduate audio production modules. Sam is a member of the Birmingham...

Alessandro Columbano

Senior Lecturer, Enterprise Coordinator, Course Director MArch Architecture (RIBA Part 2)

Alessandro is a Senior Lecturer at the Birmingham School of Architecture and Design. He also co-established and leads the Collaborative Laboratory (Co.LAB) a teaching intiative and organisation within the school that integrates teaching with practice through live projects, staff research/design and external consultancy.   ...