Our People

Ruth Lawton

University Learning & Teaching Fellow for Employability

Experienced Higher Education (HE) staff developer, lecturer and careers guidance professional - including being Head of Careers - with particular expertise in relation to embedding employability, employer engagement and personal and professional development into the curriculum. convener of the ‘Employability Developers’...

Professor Gregory Leadbetter

Professor of Poetry, Course Director of the MA in Creative Writing, Director of the Institute of Creative and Critical Writing

Professor Gregory Leadbetter is a poet and critic. His research focuses on Romantic poetry and thought, the traditions to which these relate, and the history and practice of poetry more generally. He is the author of two poetry collections, Maskwork (2020) and The Fetch (2016), both with Nine Arches Press, as well...

Francesca Leighton

Francesca Leighton is a performance maker and lecturer. She uses performance as a tool to raise awareness, inform, educate and sometimes instigate change. Her specialist areas includefeminist performance and sexuality in performance. She also has experience of devising performance, working on site-specific projects and making...

Mrs Judy (Julia) Lewis-Basson

Visiting Tutor

Judy was a staff midwife at Gloucester Royal Hospital and after having a break for ‘motherhood’ she returned to an orthopaedics/trauma ward for a number of years before working at the Royal orthopaedic hospital in the High Dependency unit. She has always had a keen interest in education and worked as one of the first Practice...

Laura Leyland

Deputy Head of Engineering

Laura Leyland is Deputy Head of Engineering  and   has been innovating in engineering education for over 10 years, teaching materials based modules and practical project focussed delivery with a specific interest in developing humanitarian engineering. This module delivery incorporates the Engineering for People Challenge...

Dr Scott Lichtenstein

Associate Professor

Scott's lecturing, research and publishing are in the areas of strategy and strategic leadership. His specialism is in the area of leaders’ and executives’ personal values and how they impact strategic choice and leadership.

Cathy Liddle

Senior Lecturer (Skills and Simulation)

In 2000 Cathy joined Birmingham City University when it was known as University of Central England (UCE) following a career working at local Trusts. Cathy qualified at Good Hope Hospital and worked on a general medical ward before moving to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital or University Hospital Birmingham (UHB) as it is known now....

Sarah Louise

Lecturer

Sarah Eades is a lecturer in our School of Nursing and Midwifery . She has had a long career in nursing - after qualifying in 1985, she worked in the acute sector, before taking roles within community and primary care in 1992, where she subsequently successfully completed a specialist practitioner BSc in community health...

Dr Adam Lynes

Associate Professor in Criminology

Dr Adam Lynes  is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology  at Birmingham City University, where he has taught since 2012, covering topics such as criminological theory, homicide, and transnational organised and corporate crime.