Sociology and Criminology staff
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Dr Ashjan Ajour
Lecturer in Sociology
Ashjan Ajour is an award-winning researcher with a growing internationally recognized body of work. Her published book “Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger strikes: Political Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body” (Palgrave Macmillan 2021- Gender Studies Series) won the Palestine Book Award in 2022. Her research...
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Professor Kehinde Andrews
Professor of Black Studies
Professor Kehinde Andrews is an academic, activist and author whose books include Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21 st Century (2018). His first book was Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement (2013).
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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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Kyla Bavin
Lecturer of Criminology
Kyla has been a lecturer of Criminology at BCU since April 2022. She has taught on a range of undergraduate and foundation modules such as The Introduction to the Criminal Justice System and Crime and Media. She is currently in her final year of her doctoral studies at Staffordshire University.
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Dr Damian Breen
Associate Professor in Criminology
Damian is currently a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University. His research interests are focused on exploring the public positioning of Muslim interests in British contexts. In particular, his research has focused on the ways that public debates around nationhood and national identity impact on...
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Dr Liam Brolan
Lecturer in Criminology, Course Leader - Sociology and Criminology with a Foundation Year
Liam Brolan is Lecturer in Criminology and 1 st Year tutor at Birmingham City University. Having completed both a BA (Hons) and MA in Criminology at Birmingham City University, Liam joined the department as a member of staff in 2014, working as a Visiting Lecturer.
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Dr Eveleigh Buck-Matthews
Lecturer in Criminology
Eveleigh joined BCU in December 2021 as a Lecturer in Criminology. They completed a PhD in International Studies and Social Sciences in 2018, having previously studied Peace Studies at Bradford University and Geography at University of Leicester. Eveleigh is passionate about delivering high quality and creative teaching to...
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Dr Samuel Burgum
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Dr Sam Burgum joined BCU in September 2020, where he leads and teaches on modules across Sociology. Drawing from critical pedagogy, he aims to foster an environment where students are active participants in learning - instead of passive consumers - and where education is a ‘practice of freedom’ (bell hooks).
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Kusminder Chahal
Senior Research Fellow
Kusminder Chahal has worked as a social and community-based researcher in a variety of organisations and places locally, nationally and internationally. This has led to a passion for understanding lived experiences, how better to exchange research knowledge, inform practice and policy and work in partnership with people who...
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Dr Ben Colliver
Associate Professor in Criminology and Subject Lead for Criminology & Policing
Dr Ben Colliver completed his undergraduate degree in ‘Criminal Justice and Legal Studies’ at the University of Greenwich before completing an MSc in ‘Criminology and Social Research Methods’ at London Southbank University.