Our People
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Professor Craig Jackson
Professor of Occupational Health Psychology
As Professor of Occupational Health Psychology, Craig Jackson is interested in the effect of workplaces and working on people’s health and psychological wellbeing.
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Vanessa Jackson
Associate Professor
Vanessa Jackson is a former BBC series producer and now an associate professor in the Institute of Media and English at Birmingham City University. She teaches television production to undergraduates as well as working on employability and enterprise activities. She completed her PhD in television historiography under the...
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Dr Colette Jeffrey
Associate Professor - Wayfinding and Inclusive Design
Colette is Associate Professor of Wayfinding and Inclusive Design. She has a Doctorate in navigation, wayfinding and architecture and is an expert in why people get lost inside buildings having devised wayfinding strategies for over 30 NHS hospitals, the Natural History Museum in London, Tower Bridge, Wembley Arena, Heathrow...
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Dr Catharine Jenkins
Reader in Dementia Care
Catharine’s teaching responsibilities are focused around the care of older people with mental health problems and her main area of expertise is dementia care. She also teaches on diversity issues and transcultural mental health nursing. Catharine is interested in creative approaches to active learning for nurse education...
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Professor Jiehong Jiang
Head of Research
Professor Jiang Jiehong is Head of Research at School of Art, Director of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University, and he is also Principal Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Intellect). Jiang has extensive research and curatorial experiences in contemporary art and visual culture. ...
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Dr Les Johnson
Visiting Research Fellow and Convenor of Black Popular Culture Research Group
Dr Les Johnson gained his PhD from Birmingham City University for his research in black popular culture, new media and design. He uses new media design processes and practice to explore and archive black music phenomena developing new research with colleagues for example in: jazz, reggae, hip-hop, blues, gospel, new forms and...
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Dr Edward Johnson
Visiting Fellow
Edward Johnson, a reader in public policy, has written extensively on British foreign policy and on the role of the UN in international affairs. He has taught at Birmingham City University for more than 25 years in the fields of politics and, most recently, security studies.
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Dr Sarahjane Jones
Deputy Director of C-SCHaRR / Senior Research Fellow
A medical scientist by undergraduate training, Sarahjane is now a health services researcher with a particular interest in quality and safety and the utilisation of routinely collected data for healthcare improvement. Sarahjane is a senior research fellow and deputy director of the Centre for Social Care, Health and...
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Helen Jones
Senior Lecturer
Helen is course leader for MSci Nursing and a lecturer in learning disability nursing, mostly concentrating on forensic care and epilepsy. She runs the online epilepsy care module for the dimensions in health care course. She also teaches pre-registration learning disability nurses on the Diploma in Higher Education course...
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Dr Eleni Kanira
Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education Studies
Eleni Kanira is a PhD graduate of the University of Warwick and a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at Birmingham City University. She trained and worked as an Early Years teacher, co-ordinator and consultant in various Primary schools and Early Years centres and as a drama teacher in schools and Theatre spaces. ...