Our People
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Dr Olia Arustamyan
Lecturer
Dr Olia Arustamyan is a Lecturer in Law. Her main research interests are in philosophy of law and moral philosophy more generally. Olia lectures in criminal law and criminal evidence at undergraduate level, and human rights law in the LLM.
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Professor Cham Athwal
Associate Head of School (Research)
Cham Athwal is Head of Research in the School of Computing and Digital Media Technology . He teaches on the BSc (Hons) courses for Digital Media Technology , and Sound Engineering and Production . An experienced lecturer and researcher, Cham has led numerous technology transfer projects, as well as working as an...
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Ron Austin
Associate Professor
Ron has 17 years’ industrial experience working for Telewest, Energis and Cable and Wireless. He managed and built the Freeserve network before moving to Cable & Wireless where he managed the network management systems (Operational Systems Support (OSS)) for the Voice Over IP (VOIP) network.
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Professor Imran Awan
Professor of Criminology
Professor Imran Awan is one of the country’s leading criminologists and experts on Islamophobia and countering extremism.
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Dr Ian Axtell BA (Hons); PGCE; DPSE; PG Cert; PG Dip; MEd
Senior Lecturer in Education Leadership
Ian has been working in education since 1984. He began his teaching career in Coventry working in arts education, mainly teaching music and music technology. In 1989 Ian moved to Birmingham to become a Head of Music in a school near the city centre. In 1993 he moved to Hereford, becoming a Curriculum Area Leader for Arts...
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Dr Catherine Baker
Associate Professor of Art and Health
Dr Catherine Baker is an Associate Professor in Art and Health at Birmingham City University (BCU) in the UK. Based at Birmingham School of Art, she is the Faculty Chair for Ethics and Research Integrity and set up and co-led the Material Encounters Research Cluster . As an artist/researcher her early PhD work involved...
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Dr Simon Barber
Research Fellow
Dr Simon Barber researches, writes and lectures about popular music, the music industries, digital culture and jazz. As a member of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Simon is particularly interested in the study of songwriting, and relationships between creative workers and industry. He convenes the...
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Dr Fouad Berrahou
Senior Lecturer (subject lead), Health Leadership and Management
Dr Fouad Berrahou joined the University in 2014 as Subject Lead in Health Leadership and Management and Programme Director for the online MBA in Health. In 2010, founded a start-up company, Founouvel Informatics, Inc., in Oran, Algeria and directed the development and testing of an intuitive and integrated electronic health...
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Dr Jagdev Bhogal
Associate Professor of Computing
Jagdev is an experienced lecturer whose main teaching area is Database Systems. Jagdev has published conference and journal papers on relational/object/nosql database systems, ontologies, text mining and cloud computing.
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Dr Christopher Bolton
Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for PGCEi
Chris is a Senior Lecturer in Drama Education here at BCU. Before this role, he worked in secondary schools as a Drama Advanced Skills Teacher. He has a keen interest in how drama pedagogy can create spaces for dialogic learning within Initial Teacher Education and the role of autoethnography in exploring professional identity....