The women who make up the group

Professor Caroline Archer-Parré

Professor of Typography

Caroline Archer-Parré is Professor of Typography, Co-director of the Centre for Printing History & Culture at Birmingham City University/University of Birmingham, and Chair of the Baskerville Society. With particular interest in typographic history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, Caroline has published widely and is...

Professor Joanne Brooke

Director of C-SCHaRR

Professor Joanne Brooke is an Adult Nurse and Chartered Health Psychologist. Joanne has a worked across clinical specialities as a nurse including surgery, orthopaedics, emergency care, neurology and stroke in both the NHS and private healthcare settings. The accumulation of clinical posts included that of Nurse Consultant in...

Professor Fiona Cowdell

Professor of Nursing and Knowledge Mobilisation

Fiona Cowdell joined Birmingham City University in 2016 as a Professor of Nursing and Knowledge Mobilisation. She is a graduate of Oxford Brookes University with a doctorate from Bournemouth University. As a registered nurse she worked for many years in the National Health Service at senior levels both operational and...

Professor Sharon Cox

Professor of Computing

Professor Sharon Cox’s research in information systems and information management is based on her industrial experience. While developing the corporate data model at Jaguar Cars, Sharon was offered a fully funded studentship from Aston University to embark on doctoral research. Her research focused on developing models to...

Dr Kirsten Forkert

Professor of Cultural Studies and Associate Director, Birmingham Media and Cultural Research

Kirsten Forkert is an interdisciplinary researcher, teacher and activist. She sees teaching as a space for students connect with what they feel passionate about, explore their intellectual curiosity and creativity, and to reflect on the power relations at play within the current political moment. Her research focuses on...

Professor Diane Kemp

Professor of Broadcast Journalism

Diane Kemp is Director of the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity, which launched in March 2020, and Professor of Broadcast Journalism in CoEM. Before joining the university, Diane worked in commercial and BBC radio before moving into BBC television news and current affairs. She was also Deputy Chair of the Broadcast...

Dr Geraldine Lee-Treweek

Professor of Knowledge Exchange & Social Justice

Geraldine is a sociologist and transdisciplinary scholar with a keen interest in vulnerable groups and people who are defined as ‘out of place’ or who are excluded.

Professor Maxine Lintern

Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise, Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences

As part of the senior management for the Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences (BLSS), Professor Maxine Lintern takes a leadership role in setting the vision and deciding the direction of travel of the Faculty, contribute to all major strategic decisions and implementation of operational policy.

Professor Eirini Mavritsaki

Professor in Cognitive Psychology, BLSS Faculty Research Strategy Deputy and BLSS Research Development Framework Lead

Professor Eirini Mavritsaki chose to be academic because she is passionate for research and teaching and constantly searching for more approaches that will allow her to integrate them.

Dr Lynsey Melville

Director of the Global Environmental Challenges Research Group, Lead of Bioresource and Bioeconomy Research Group (BBRG), Senior Researcher

Dr Lynsey Melville is Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Computing Engineering and Built Environment. She leads the Biotechnology and Environmental Engineering research group whose focus is on accelerating the adoption of environmentally sustainable and commercially viable energy from biomass. Lynsey is...