Our People
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Dr Annette Naudin
Course Director in MA Media and Cultural Studies
Dr Annette Naudin is Associate Professor Academic, with responsibility for Learning and Teaching at Birmingham Institute for Media and English. Annette is an Enterprise Education fellow of the National Centre for Graduate Entrepreneurship and has had a leading role exploring creative enterprise education for EU funded...
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Dr. Anastasia Nikologianni
Post Doctorate Fellow / Researcher
Dr. Anastasia Nikologianni holds an EIT Climate-KIC labelled PhD in Landscape Architecture and climate emergency with regards to the role of low carbon, spatial quality and the contribution design can make to the development of regional landscape-based spatial strategies. Anastasia is also qualified as a Landscape Architect MA...
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Jacqueline Norton
Faculty Director of Academic Partnerships
My first degree was a Bachelor of Arts in Design. I worked in industry for nearly twenty years before applying to teach Professional Practice modules initially in Further Education on a part time basis. I completed my teacher training in 2006 and completed a part time Masters in Art and Design 2008. As part of my MA...
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Professor Joy Notter
Professor of Community Health Care Studies
Professor Joy Notter is Professor of Community Health Care at Birmingham City University. She trained as a nurse in the Nightingale Training School, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, her final post there being charge nurse in medical cardiology she then trained as a health visitor and worked in Stockwell and Brixton. She gained a...
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Dr Eugene Nulman
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Dr Eugene Nulman is very passionate and interested in social movements and social change and teaches to inspire. His academic work is driven by an emphasis in public sociology, bringing the academic knowledge to the wider community.
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Dr Jane O'Connor
Reader in Childhood Studies
Jane is particularly interested in researching cultural aspects of childhood and media/technology. She has extensive experience using a variety of qualitative research methods including discourse analysis.
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Lise Olson
Course Director, MA in Acting
Lise is currently the Course Director of MA in Acting at Birmingham School of Acting. She relocated from Merseyside, where she trained actors for a decade at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). An American ex-pat, she has been working professionally in the UK for over 20 years.
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Dr Andrea Page
Associate Professor
Andrea is a registered nurse for people with learning disabilities, with 30 years plus experience in this field. Prior to joining Birmingham City University in 2000, she was a community nurse for people with learning disabilities. Throughout her career she has always had an interest in how challenging behaviours are managed...
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Dr Esther Palomar
Reader in Computing
Esther Palomar is a Reader of Computing at the University’s School of Computing and Digital Technology . After graduating from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, Esther gained employment as a computer forensic auditor at an international auditing firm, before returning to the university in 2004 to complete a PhD...
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Dr Ashok Patel
Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences
Ashok has a number of research interests, and is developing research projects with clinicians based in hospitals in Birmingham, as well as colleagues within BCU. He has had a number of published studies in the field of genetic predisposition to complex disease such as diabetic kidney disease and dementia in Down’s syndrome. He...