Architecture staff
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Dr Mersha Aftab
Associate Professor
Dr. Mersha Aftab is Associate Professor in Design Management at Birmingham City University. Before joining the University in September 2019, she was a Senior Lecturer in Innovation at the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences, Northumbria University, since 2012. In 2006, she finished her BA in fashion and information...
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Dr Ana Araujo
Lecturer
Dr Ana Araujo was trained as an architect, and she currently works in the fields of the visual arts and interior design. Her research interests include the intersection of the above-mentioned creative disciplines with the areas of psychology, anthropology and gender studies. Ana is the author of “No Compromise: the work of...
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Peter J Baldwin
Head of Architecture and the Built Environment
Peter Baldwin is a Registered and Chartered Architect, artist and academic, and the Head of Architecture and the Built Environment at Birmingham City University. Prior to joining BCU Peter was employed at Loughborough University, serving as Curriculum Development and Accreditation Lead for the Architecture (2023-2025). During...
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Dr Hocine Bougdah
Director of Technical Studies and Sustainability
Dr Hocine Bougdah has an academic and industrial career that extends over 31 years. He recently joined the University as a Director for Technical Studies and Sustainability. Prior to this, he was a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Architecture and Cities at the University of Westminster, London and a research/educational...
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Ijeoma Emeghe
Senior Lecturer in Real Estate
Ijeoma Emeghe is an academic and built-environment researcher with experience across higher education, industry practice, and policy-focused scholarship. She established her professional foundation as a qualified Associate Member of The Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) following two years of...
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Dr Konstantina Georgiadou
Lecturer in Architecture
Dr Konstantina Georgiadou is a Lecturer in Architecture with extensive experience in heritage research, specialising in the intersection of architectural heritage, memory, and conflict. Her work focuses on how spatial practices engage with sites shaped by historical trauma, contested narratives, displacement, and layered...
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Andrew Hilton
Course Leader BA(Hons) Interior Architecture and Design Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture and Design
Andrew Hilton ARB is a BCU alumnus (1993–2005), architect, educator and researcher with over 30 years’ international experience across architecture, interiors, landscape and urban regeneration. He founded international award-winning practices Choral Studio Ltd (UK) and Urban Synthesis (China), integrating research, community...
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Helen Iball
Academic Lead for Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies and M.Arch Course Co-Leader
Helen is an intersectional feminist architectural academic creatively teaching feminist spatial practice for over twenty-seven year, where she set up PRAXXIS aiming to stimulate a positive intersectional feminist debate in Schools of Architecture. Over nearly ten years of PRAXXIS Helen has taught well over 500 feminist...
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Nicholas Irvin
Senior Lecturer
Nick is a senior lecturer and has experience of writing and managing courses, whilst teaching across a range of modules and courses within the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media, at Birmingham City University. He has experience of leading on the postgraduate Master of Arts, Design Management course in the UK and overseas. He...
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Heba Iskandarani
Course Lead – BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology; Lecturer in Construction and Architectural Technology
A PhD researcher in planning at the school of Built Environment at Birmingham City University, Heba's research focus is in post-conflict reconstruction of the Middle East specifically housing projects.