Our People
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Ruth Lawton
University Learning & Teaching Fellow for Employability
Experienced Higher Education (HE) staff developer, lecturer and careers guidance professional - including being Head of Careers - with particular expertise in relation to embedding employability, employer engagement and personal and professional development into the curriculum. convener of the ‘Employability Developers’...
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Professor Gregory Leadbetter
Professor of Poetry, Course Director of the MA in Creative Writing, Director of the Institute of Creative and Critical Writing
Professor Gregory Leadbetter is a poet and critic. His research focuses on Romantic poetry and thought, the traditions to which these relate, and the history and practice of poetry more generally. He is the author of two poetry collections, Maskwork (2020) and The Fetch (2016), both with Nine Arches Press, as well...
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Francesca Leighton
Francesca Leighton is a performance maker and lecturer. She uses performance as a tool to raise awareness, inform, educate and sometimes instigate change. Her specialist areas includefeminist performance and sexuality in performance. She also has experience of devising performance, working on site-specific projects and making...
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Mrs Judy (Julia) Lewis-Basson
Visiting Tutor
Judy was a staff midwife at Gloucester Royal Hospital and after having a break for ‘motherhood’ she returned to an orthopaedics/trauma ward for a number of years before working at the Royal orthopaedic hospital in the High Dependency unit. She has always had a keen interest in education and worked as one of the first Practice...
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Laura Leyland
Deputy Head of Engineering
Laura Leyland is Deputy Head of Engineering and has been innovating in engineering education for over 10 years, teaching materials based modules and practical project focussed delivery with a specific interest in developing humanitarian engineering. This module delivery incorporates the Engineering for People Challenge...
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Dr Scott Lichtenstein
Associate Professor
Scott's lecturing, research and publishing are in the areas of strategy and strategic leadership. His specialism is in the area of leaders’ and executives’ personal values and how they impact strategic choice and leadership.
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Cathy Liddle
Senior Lecturer (Skills and Simulation)
In 2000 Cathy joined Birmingham City University when it was known as University of Central England (UCE) following a career working at local Trusts. Cathy qualified at Good Hope Hospital and worked on a general medical ward before moving to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital or University Hospital Birmingham (UHB) as it is known now....
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Sarah Louise
Lecturer
Sarah Eades is a lecturer in our School of Nursing and Midwifery . She has had a long career in nursing - after qualifying in 1985, she worked in the acute sector, before taking roles within community and primary care in 1992, where she subsequently successfully completed a specialist practitioner BSc in community health...
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Dr Adam Lynes
Associate Professor in Criminology
Dr Adam Lynes is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University, where he has taught since 2012, covering topics such as criminological theory, homicide, and transnational organised and corporate crime.
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Dr Khaled Mahbub
Associate Professor in Software Engineering
Khaled started his academic career, in September 1999, as a Lecturer (US hierarchy) in Computer Science & Engineering at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he worked until March 2001. From May 2006 to July 2007, Khaled served as Research...