Our People
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Professor Jonathan Ross
Professor of Sexual Health and HIV
Jonathan Ross is Professor of Sexual Health and HIV and a consultant physician at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. His research interests relate to gonorrhoea, Mycoplasma genitalium, HIV, bacterial vaginosis, and sexual health care service delivery.
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Gillian Rudd
Senior Lecturer and Joint Programme Lead (MSc Speech and Language Therapy)
Gillian has extensive experience of supporting children and young people with a wide range of communication needs and additional expertise in supporting children and adults presenting with fluency disorders. She promotes a person-centred, solution-focused approach in both her teaching and practice. Gillian is actively engaged...
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Dr Loes Rusch
Post-doctoral researcher
Musicologist and saxophonist Loes Rusch currently divides her post-doctoral research on European jazz festivals between the University of Amsterdam and Birmingham City University. As part of Cultural Heritage and Improvised Music in European Festivals [ CHIME ] , a European research project supported by the JPI...
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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...