Our People
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Dr Olia Arustamyan
Lecturer
Dr Olia Arustamyan is a Lecturer in Law. Her main research interests are in philosophy of law and moral philosophy more generally. Olia lectures in criminal law and criminal evidence at undergraduate level, and human rights law in the LLM.
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Professor Cham Athwal
Associate Head of School (Research)
Cham Athwal is Head of Research in the School of Computing and Digital Media Technology . He teaches on the BSc (Hons) courses for Digital Media Technology , and Sound Engineering and Production . An experienced lecturer and researcher, Cham has led numerous technology transfer projects, as well as working as an...
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Ron Austin
Associate Professor
Ron has 17 years’ industrial experience working for Telewest, Energis and Cable and Wireless. He managed and built the Freeserve network before moving to Cable & Wireless where he managed the network management systems (Operational Systems Support (OSS)) for the Voice Over IP (VOIP) network.
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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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Dr Ian Axtell BA (Hons); PGCE; DPSE; PG Cert; PG Dip; MEd
Academic Lead for Professional Master’s Courses
Ian taught in a variety of schools for 20 years before joining the School of Education at Birmingham City University. His passions are for Arts (particularly music) and Physical Education which he led in a couple of high schools. Ian has always worked in primary schools as part of his teaching role. He finished the first part...
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Dr Catherine Baker
Associate Professor
Dr Catherine Baker studied Fine Art at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design followed by an MA in Drawing at Wimbledon School of Art, completing her PhD by Publication in 2012. As a practising artist and researcher, she has lectured widely and participated in a number of international drawing initiatives including...
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Dr Simon Barber
Research Fellow
Dr Simon Barber researches, writes and lectures about popular music, the music industries, digital culture and jazz. As a member of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Simon is particularly interested in the study of songwriting, and relationships between creative workers and industry. He convenes the...
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Dr Fouad Berrahou
Senior Lecturer (subject lead), Health Leadership and Management
Dr Fouad Berrahou joined the University in 2014 as Subject Lead in Health Leadership and Management and Programme Director for the online MBA in Health. In 2010, founded a start-up company, Founouvel Informatics, Inc., in Oran, Algeria and directed the development and testing of an intuitive and integrated electronic health...
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Dr Jagdev Bhogal
Associate Professor of Computing
Jagdev is an experienced lecturer whose main teaching area is Database Systems. Jagdev has published conference and journal papers on relational/object/nosql database systems, ontologies, text mining and cloud computing.
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Dr Carolyn Blackburn
Reader in Interdisciplinary Practice and Research with Families
Dr. Carolyn Blackburn worked in a range of charities and education settings before taking up an academic post. Carolyn has taught in four Universities at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Carolyn has worked on numerous research projects related to inclusion, disability and child/family wellbeing. She is...