Our People

Professor John Mercer

Director of Researcher Education and Development, Professor of Gender and Sexuality

John Mercer is Professor of Gender and Sexuality in the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research. His research interests focus on the social and cultural construction of masculinities in the 21st century. He is the author of Pornography: Representations of Masculinity and Sexuality (Bloomsbury, 2017) Rock Hudson ...

Dr. Lisa Metherell

Senior Lecturer in Art and Design

Lisa holds a B.Soc.Sci. in Media, Culture and Society, an M.A. in Fine Art and a Ph.D. in Art and Design. Lisa is an artist and lecturer specialising in the relationship between practice and theory within Art and Design.  Her funded research through art practice PhD: ‘Glittering Orientations: Towards a non-figurative queer art...

Dr Tychonas Michailidis

Research Assistant

Dr Andrew Millward

Deputy Head of School

Andrew is an academic manager with responsibility for the academic quality and the student experience in the School of Digital Media Technology. He is a qualified teacher who had worked in Schools and Colleges as well as lecturing in HE. He has lectured in business, management, professional and contextual studies for...

Dr Paul Millwood

Senior Lecturer and admissions tutor for Mental Health Nursing

Paul has worked in mental health nursing and nurse education for 34 years, with his time in practice being spent in community and specialist forensic mental health settings for children and adolescents. Following completion of his mental health and adult nurse training in the 1980s, Paul worked in a number of senior clinical...

René Mogensen

Music Technology Tutor

René Mogensen is a composer, musician, researcher, producer and educator, originally from Denmark. He has been involved in diverse genres of music, and has a wide, international experience both as a composer, performer and music technologist. He continues to be open-minded about musical explorations, and other artistic...

Dr Kassim Noor Mohammed

Lecturer in Criminology

Before joining Birmingham City University, Kassim was a Social Sciences Lecturer at Nottingham Trent International College and for four years prior to that he was a Sessional Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University. He has taught modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including: Principles of...

Professor Kathryn Moore

Professor of Landscape Architecture

Kathryn Moore, President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) and Professor of Landscape Architecture at Birmingham City University has published extensively on design quality, theory, education and practice. Her book Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design (2010) provides the basis for...

Professor Mervyn Morris

Professor of Community Mental Health and Director, Centre for Community Mental Health