Construction and the Built Environment staff
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Dr Damilola Ekundayo
Associate Professor in the Built Environment, Programme Director for MSc Quantity Surveying
Damilola has a substantial professional experience in the construction industry and in the UK higher education sector as well as varied management experience. Before joining academia he worked in the construction industry as a chartered quantity surveyor, chartered construction manager and professional project manager both in...
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Shuyin Feng
Lecturer in Civil Engineering
Shuyin Feng is a Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering in the Department of Built Environment at Birmingham City University. She received her PhD and MSc by Research in Civil Engineering from the University of Bristol, UK, in 2022 and 2017, respectively. Her research focuses on geotechnical engineering, soil mechanics and...
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Callistus Gero
Lecturer in Digital Built Environment
Callistus worked as an assistant site manager for a building contractor in Nairobi, Kenya, throughout most of 2018. He then secured an internship with The National Housing Corporation, before another similar stint with Ksumu County Government.
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Professor Silvia Gullino
Professor of City Making
Silvia is a Professor of City Making and a Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI). With an interdisciplinary background in Architecture and Urban Planning, her academic ethos centres on understanding cities as complex socio-economic, physical, environmental, and political systems. Addressing urban...
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Foroogh Hajiseyedjavadi
Lecturer
Foroogh is a lecturer in Civil Engineering at the Department of Built Environment and a visiting research fellow at the University of Leeds. She has a PhD in Civil Engineering with the focus on Transportation Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, where she also worked as a research and teaching...
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Dr Javad Hashempour
Senior Lecturer in Fire Engineering – Course Lead
Dr Hashempour is a Senior Lecturer in Fire Engineering and Course Lead for the BEng (Hons) Fire Engineering programme in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment. He completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Massachusetts,...
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Professor David Higgins
Professor of Real Estate
Dr David Higgins is the Professor of Real Estate, Birmingham City University and past Visiting Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Xiamen University, China. David has worked in both industry and academia in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and China. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered...
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Dr Miguel Hincapie-Trivino
Course Leader
Miguel has joined Birmingham City University in 2022 as Lecturer in Urban Planning and Sustainability at the Built Environment Department. He teaches across various undergraduate and postgraduate courses on subjects related to sustainable urban design, development project and digital cities. Miguel obtained a professional...
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Dr Saeid Javidi
Lecturer in Civil Engineering; Course Leader for HNC Construction.
Dr Saeid Javidi is a Lecturer in Civil Engineering and Course Leader for HNC Construction within the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at Birmingham City University. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from BCU and has experience in teaching, research and postgraduate supervision across structural and civil...
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Dr Chathu Jayakody
Senior Lecturer
Dr Chathuranganee Jayakody (Chathu) is a Senior Lecturer in Built Environment at Birmingham City University (BCU). Her research interests are urban planning and urban designing interventions for disaster resilience, planning and designing sustainable public open spaces and shared spaces, and addressing the needs of displaced...