Our staff
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Jo Newman
Foundation Course Director
Jo chose a career in education so that she could provide students with learning environments where conversations, ideas and materials can be selected, combined, analysed and shared, offering them a way of socializing, caring and questioning to grow their learning with meaning for their futures. She champions the integration...
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Sofia Niazi
Lecturer in Illustration
Sofia Niazi is an artist, illustrator, and member of One of My Kind (OOMK) artist collective. As part of OOMK, she set up community Risograph print workshop Rabbits Road Press in London. She has worked on a range of commissioned projects, taken part in international artist residencies and regularly speaks about her work in...
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Rachel Oldfield
Lecturer in Illustration BA (Hons)
Rachel has worked as a successful freelance illustrator for over fifteen years. Her work has been commissioned for use on a wide range of formats including room decor, wall art, book covers, wrapping paper, greeting cards, commercial murals, surface pattern design, including six published children’s books. She has taught...
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David Osbaldestin
Deputy Course Director
David Osbaldestin is Deputy Course Director for the BA (Hons) Visual Communication in the School of Visual Communication. He joined the University nine years ago. A Creative Director with a passion for typography, David Osbaldestin is using his fine art and design skills to teach the complex art form of the printed letter. He...
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Koray Pezukoglu
Senior Animation Technician
Koray is experienced in the fields of motion graphics design, 3D modelling, animation, filmmaking and advertisement. He is a serious Cinema 4D enthusiast, researching Unity integration into Cinema 4D and live motion capture technologies. Koray provides daily or weekly software demonstrations and assists staff and students with...
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Nick Priest
Lecturer in Photography
Nick is a Lecturer in BA Photography and has a distinction in MA Photography and Outstanding in his teaching qualification. Nick has a passion for all photography and his practice has led him into documentary and portrait photography, shooting communities, people, places, and readings in Psychogeography and Sense of Place, and...
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Robert Sharl
Senior Lecturer
Robert Sharl is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Communications in the School of Visual Communications at Birmingham City University’s Faculty of Art, Media and Design. He joined the University in 1999. Robert Sharl is changing the way that industry and the School of Visual Communications collaborate. Instead of having external...
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Timm Sonnenschein
Senior Lecturer and Acting Course Director Visual Communication BIFCA
Timm Sonnenschein is a Senior Lecturer and the Acting Course Director of the Visual Communication programme of our Wuhan based Birmingham Institute of Fashion and Creative Art (BIFCA). Through his professional work as well as his family connections, Timm has extensive knowledge of Chinese culture which he has been able to apply...
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Ally Standing
Lecturer in Contextual Studies
Ally is a Birmingham-based visual artist and lecturer, with an interdisciplinary practice exploring ideas surrounding the built environment. In her current role, Ally is responsible for the coordination and delivery of Contextual Studies for students across the School of Visual Communication, including students on BA...
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Matt Tromans
Deputy Course Leader MA Visual Communication
An experienced and dynamic creative producer, director and writer with major international feature film credits and a strong track record in critically acclaimed and commercially successful cinema. Matt has worked as a producer in Europe and America, he has an extensive knowledge of film and related industries.