Our People
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Richard Frost
Senior Lecturer, Strategic Management
Richard Frost has been an academic for over 22 years, teaching strategy, with some marketing, to mostly postgraduate students, but increasingly to undergraduates over the past few years. He is also an expert in online and distance learning education
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Dr Lara Furniss
BA Art and Design Course Director
Lara has twenty years professional experience working internationally across many art and design disciplines. This extensive cross-disciplinary professional experience directly informs Lara’s teaching, with a primary interest in developing new pedagogic approaches to non-discipline specific problem solving. Lara’s research...