Our People
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Dr Dima Saber
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Dima Saber is a Senior Research Fellow and is Associate Director for External Funding and Research Development at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research. Her research is focussed on media depictions of conflict in the Arab region, and she is responsible for leading and delivering projects in citizen...
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Professor Graham Sadler
Professor in Music (part-time)
Professor Sadler is known internationally as an authority on French music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After studying at the Universities of Nottingham and London and the Royal College of Music, he joined the Music Department at the University of Hull, where he remained as lecturer, reader and eventually...
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Dr Peter Samuels MA, PG Cert MS DD HE/FE
Senior Lecturer
Peter obtained a BA in Mathematics from Cambridge University in 1987 (converted to an MA in 1991). In the first 10 years of his career he worked as a researcher, lecturer and educational developer in mathematics and mathematics education for the University of Reading, the Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd., Reading College, Brunel...
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Dr Navjot Sandhu
Associate Professor in Finance
Dr Navjot Sandhu is Finance subject group lead, managing undergraduate and postgraduate Finance programmes in the department. She has a wide range of experience of developing, delivering higher education courses programmes, modules at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.
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Professor Jamie Savan
Director of Research, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Jamie Savan is Professor of Performance-led Research in Music and Director of Research at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire , and co-director of BCU's Performance Research Hub . He joined BCU in 2016, having previously worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of Performance at Newcastle University. Best known as a performer of...
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Dr Paraic Scanlon
Senior Lecturer in Development Psychology, Course Director Foundation in Psychology
Dr Paraic Scanlon entered the world of academia through his interest in cognitive development, how the brain grows and changes, and the impact that ageing has on that process. Paraic completed his PhD at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, in 2010 and has worked at UCL and now BCU as a researcher and lecturer.
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Franziska Schenk
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
Franziska Schenk is an artist and researcher with an MA in Fine Art (with Distinction) and First Class Honours degrees in Fine Art (Birmingham City University), and in Art Education (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt). A well-qualified, experienced Lecturer in Fine Art at Birmingham City University and Honorary...
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Richard Schofield
Lecturer in Visual Communication
A devotee of the cross-disciplinary approach, Richard considers conceptual thinking to be the significant common denominator between different art-forms and sub-disciplines, and therefore commonly interchangeable. Whilst at the same time celebrating the unique, distinct qualities of each of these various activities, he sees...
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Dr Ghasson Shabha
Senior Lecturer
Ghasson is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and the Built Environment. Ghasson has obtained his PhD in Architecture from Bath University, UK. He is an architect by profession with a wide range of experience in the design and property management of office, residential and commercial buildings. He has acted in an...
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Victoria Skerrett
Senior Lecturer
Victoria has worked in mental health nursing and nurse education since 1998, with her time in practice being spent in Forensic Mental Health settings and as a Community Mental Health Nurse. She entered mental health work after studying Theology at the University of St Andrews and the University of Birmingham to further her...