Research staff

Dr. Alex Albans

Research Fellow in Landscape Architecture

Dr Alex Albans is a Research Fellow at the West Midlands National Park Lab, investigating landscape as a manifestation of the culturally-framed relationships between people and their territories. Alex’s research-informed teaching at BCU focuses on how designers ‘get to know’ the places they’re working with, and how this impacts...

Claudia Carter

Professor in Environmental Governance and Planning

Claudia is a Professor in the field of interdisciplinary research and environmental governance. Her research relates to climate change and sustainability adopting social-ecological systems thinking and approaches. Her main areas of interest are the opportunities and barriers to 'low-impact' living and the transformative...

Marina Cervera

Doctoral researcher

Maria is Adjunct professor for Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona Tech. ETSAB, DUOT. Her professional practice has been developed through Ateliers Jean Nouvel (Paris), the Centre for Research and Projectes Landscape (CRPP, UPC) and since 2003 through her own Barcelona-based professional practice involving planning...

Dr. Paul Cureton

Senior Research Fellow in Landscape and Infrastructure

Dr. Paul Cureton is a Senior Lecturer in Design (People, Products, Places) Imagination Lancaster, Lancaster University. Paul is also a Senior Research Fellow in Landscape and Infrastructure, Birmingham City University, UK in the CATiD Research Centre. He holds a PhD in Landscape Representation from Manchester School of...

Professor Silvia Gullino

Professor of City Making

Silvia is a Professor of City Making and a Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI). With an interdisciplinary background in Architecture and Urban Planning, her academic ethos centres on understanding cities as complex socio-economic, physical, environmental, and political systems. Addressing urban...

Professor Peter Larkham

Professor of Planning

Peter Larkham is Professor of Planning at the University’s College of the Built Environment. He teaches planning-related issues such as conservation and urban design on the College’s BSc and MSc courses and leads its Postgraduate Certificate in Research Practice. Peter studied for his PhD in Urban Geography at the University...

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...

Dr. Anastasia Nikologianni

Post Doctorate Fellow / Researcher

Dr. Anastasia Nikologianni holds an EIT Climate-KIC labelled PhD in Landscape Architecture and climate emergency with regards to the role of low carbon, spatial quality and the contribution design can make to the development of regional landscape-based spatial strategies. Anastasia is also qualified as a Landscape Architect MA...