Our staff

Becky Howson

Lecturer

Becky has over twenty years of professional experience working internationally across several disciplines; graphic design, fashion communication, textile design and interior design.  Becky is undertaking PhD research in typography letterpress printing and is developing experimental typographic research practice. Recent and...

Gemma Ince

Lecturer and Personal Tutor

Gemma has 14 years of experience as a part time visiting tutor, first teaching at Central Saint Martins (where she did her BA degree), then the University of Derby. She was nominated by the NUS for an inspirational teaching award in 2017. She recently became a permanent tutor at Birmingham City University, teaching on...

Theo Inglis

Lecturer in Graphic Design

Theo Inglis joined Birmingham City University in 2024 as a full-time lecturer on the BA Graphic Design course. He studied Graphic Design at Norwich University of the Arts, and completed an MA in Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. Theo has over ten years of professional design experience, including...

Dr Colette Jeffrey

Associate Professor of Wayfinding & Inclusive Design

Dr Colette Jeffrey is an Associate Professor of Wayfinding and Inclusive Design at Birmingham City University where she teaches wayfinding and graphic design on the BA(Hons) Graphic Design course, supervises PhDs, and researches real-world wayfinding behaviour. Her PhD investigated why people get lost in buildings and the...

Barnaby Kent

Senior Technician

Barnaby Kent joined BCU as a Photographic Senior Technician in 2017, where he works part-time from Monday to Wednesday as an integral member of the Digital Technical Team at the Parkside Campus. His primary responsibility is to provide essential support for the university's photography facilities. Outside of his role at BCU,...

Naomi Kent

Printmaking Technician

Professor Andrew Kulman

Professor of Arts and Design

Award winning Illustrator with 30 years of industry engagement. Research areas include the development of autographic print processes in contemporary graphic art practice. Andrew Kulman has taught across all three years of the undergraduate course in Illustration at BCU, has delivered lectures to several postgraduate courses...

Paul Lander

Senior Lecturer

2005 to present day: As Senior Lecturer in Photography, my overriding aim is to initiate creative pathways of study that will take the student into a journey to fulfil future aspirations and vocations. This pathway of study is intended to contest notions and perceptions of the norm, to creatively experiment and oppose the...

Gyeonghwa Lee

Lecturer in Visual Communication BIFCA

Awards 2021 AIC Best Paper Award International Colour Association. Milan, Italy.  2021 WD Wright Award The Colour Group (Great Britain), United Kingdom.  2018 AIC Student Paper Award International Colour Association. Lisbon, Portugal. 2016 Leeds Anniversary Research Scholarships University of Leeds, United...