Our People
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Dr Serena Trowbridge
Reader in Victorian Literature
Dr. Serena Trowbridge read English and Art History at King's College London, followed by an MA in textual studies at the University of Birmingham. Her PhD, entitled 'Christina Rossetti's Fractured Gothic', was completed at Birmingham City University in 2010, supervised by Professor Fiona Robertson. Her monograph Christina...
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Loukia Tsaprouni
Research Director for Health Sciences
Loukia Tsaprouni is a Professor in Health with interests in the areas of Genomics and Epigenetics of common diseases, complex traits aiming at the discovery of molecular origins of human disease, and the development of novel diagnostic and intervention strategies. She completed her PhD and Post-Doctoral qualifications at...
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Professor Panayiota Tsatsou
Professor in Media Diversity
Panayiota Tsatsou is Professor of Media Diversity in the Department of English and Media at Birmingham City University and Academic Research Lead at the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity. Her work explores media diversity, digital inclusion and the wider social and structural inequalities that shape people’s...
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Dr Sian Vaughan
Associate Professor in Research Practice
Dr Sian Vaughan is Associate Professor in Research Practice and she leads RAAD – the centre for research in art, architecture, and design at Birmingham City University, providing strategic leadership, coordination, and care for a growing community of researchers. Sian is an internationally recognised researcher with...
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Dr Alex Wade
Senior Research Fellow
Alex's work is at its best where videogames meet society. Using theory to explore these intersections he looks to the histories of games to explore the formation of society during the Cold War and beyond. Of particular interest in his work are concepts of space, time, consumption as a function of production and the role of...
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Dr Shane Walker
Director of KTP Programmes
Dr Shane Walker is Director of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships at Birmingham City University's Institute of Art and Design. This role determines current opportunities to develop capability and identify barriers to growth faced by creative industries in the West Midlands region and beyond. As a member of the University's Human...
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Professor Tim Wall
Professor of Radio and Popular Music Studies
Tim Wall is Professor of Radio and Popular Music Studies in the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research. His work focuses on popular music cultures and their mediation and history, notably those around jazz, soul and reggae. He has published extensively in international journals and books, and he applies his insights...
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Dr Andrew Walsh
Senior Lecturer
Andrew qualified as a mental health nurse in 1982. Before coming to BCU he worked in a range of mental health care settings such as acute mental health care and the mental health of older people. He was a ward manager, a Community Psychiatric Nurse and he also worked in primary care within South Birmingham. Andrew studied...
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Dr Yonghao Wang
Associate Professor
Dr. Yonghao (Leo) Wang is an esteemed academic with over 20 years of experience in the fields of Networking and Cybersecurity, with a special focus on blockchain technology and decentralised communication systems. His expertise also extends to Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for multimedia, as well as Cloud and Edge...
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Dr Nick Webber
Associate Professor in Media
Nick Webber is Director of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR). He joined the University in 2008, having previously worked in research development. Nick has a background in medieval history, and his research now focuses on (historical) game studies.