Our People

Dr Mohammad Farazi

Research Fellow

Dr Farazi was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Trento (UNITN) in the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science from May 2010 to May 2015. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at UNITN in 2010. He was involved in the Open...

Victoria Farrow

Programme Director, BA (Hons) Architecture

Professor Martin Fautley

Professor of Education

Professor Martin Fautley has a wealth of experience in music education, both in terms of pedagogy, and of music education research. After enjoying many years as a classroom music teacher, he then undertook full-time Doctoral research working across the education and music faculties at Cambridge University, investigating...

Dr Kirsten Forkert

Professor of Cultural Studies and Associate Director, Birmingham Media and Cultural Research

Kirsten Forkert is an interdisciplinary researcher, teacher and activist. She sees teaching as a space for students connect with what they feel passionate about, explore their intellectual curiosity and creativity, and to reflect on the power relations at play within the current political moment. Her research focuses on...

Jerry Foss

Senior Lecturer

Jeremy Foss is a Chartered Engineer and a senior lecturer in Broadcast Engineering at Birmingham City University, UK. He developed the university's successful broadcast engineering BEng and MSc programmes. Prior to his academic role he had thirty years' experience in research and development in telecommunications, including...

Dr Olga Fotakopoulou

Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology

Olga is a developmental psychologist and is interested in human development from birth to adolescence with a special interest in socio-cognitive, emotional and pro-social development. She has worked as a researcher of children’s development since 2004 and as a counsellor in various educational and clinical settings.

Stephanie Fremaux

Dr. Stephanie Fremaux is a media theorist with over seven years’ teaching experience in higher education. Stephanie studied English literature and History as an undergraduate at Central Michigan University in the United States where she also above the first 400 words of this biography will appear on the courses that you...

Dr Amanda French

Reader

Amanda has worked in higher, further, adult education and the voluntary sector for 30 years as a lecturer, writing developer and researcher and is currently employed as Reader in Teaching and learning in the School of Education and Social Work. Her PhD in Education: '"Through a glass darkly”: Lecturers perceptions of...

Professor Christian Frost

Director of History, Theory and Cultural Context

Christian Frost qualified as an architect in 1990 following the completion of his studies at the University of Cambridge. He worked in practice, at home and abroad for over ten years before becoming a full time academic in 2001, when he began to research the history of the foundation of Salisbury which has resulted in the...