Art and Design staff
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Ana Rutter
Senior Demonstrator; Fine Art video and sound
Ana is a practising artist currently undertaking PhD research, working with film and audio field recordings to create site / location-specific installations. Ana technically teaches and support students with filming, sound recording, editing and developing installation practices. Additionally, she has had experience with...
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Justin Sanders
Senior Technician - Fine Art Printmaking
Justin works across multiple printmaking processes including stone lithography, Relief, Intaglio and digital methodologies to create works that respond to the variances possible through printmaking, and about his responses to the world around him. These can include travel and landscape(s), food and embracing his male...
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Franziska Schenk
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
Franziska is an artist, researcher and educator whose practice has been located at the interface of Art, Science and Ecology for more than two decades. Notably, she has collaborated with scientists from the emerging fields of biomimetics and bio-photonics to introduce latest nature-inspired ‘smart’ materials and methodologies...
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Professor Becky Shaw
Professor in Fine Art Practice
Becky Shaw is an artist, researcher and Professor in Fine Art Practice at Birmingham City University. She makes live, collaborative artworks that examine the tension between individuals, environment, tools and social structures, often in institutions of 'public good' including healthcare, education, utilities and work. ...
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Timm Sonnenschein
Senior Lecturer and Course Director Visual Communication BIFCA
Timm Sonnenschein is a Senior Lecturer and the Course Director of the Visual Communication programme of our Wuhan based Birmingham Institute of Fashion and Creative Art (BIFCA). Through his professional work as well as his family connections, Timm has extensive knowledge of Chinese culture which he has been able to apply within...
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Ally Standing
Lecturer in Contextual Studies
Ally is a Birmingham-based visual artist and lecturer, with an interdisciplinary practice exploring ideas surrounding the built environment. In her current role, Ally is responsible for the coordination and delivery of Contextual Studies for students on BA Design for Performance, BA Graphic Communication, BA Illustration...
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Dr Jacqueline Taylor
Senior Lecturer in Research Practice
Jacqueline Taylor is an artist, writer, researcher and educator. She is the doctoral education lead for the faculty of Arts, Design and Media where she develops and delivers research training for PhD researchers. Her teaching specialism lies in the area of practice research and she has presented, taught and published widely on...
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Nathan Tromans
Head of the College of Art and Design
Nathan Tromans background as a Photographer, with an interest in contemporary art and music, provides the backbone to his role in encouraging interdisciplinary practice. Managing some 600 students across the UK, Hong Kong and Thailand, Nathan is committed to ensuring courses have vocational relevance and is active in developing...
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Dr Sian Vaughan
Reader in Research Practice
Dr Sian Vaughan is Reader in Research Practice with expertise in doctoral education and creative research methods. She is Director of Research for RAAD – research in art, architecture, and design (REF UoA32) where she provides strategic leadership, coordination, and care for a growing community of researchers. As Reader in...
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Mike Villiers-Stuart
Senior Lecturer and Course Leader MA Future Media
Mike started his broadcasting career in 1983 as a journalist in cable TV newsrooms and progressed to becoming a news Producer/Director before moving into broadcast TV as a Network Director for Thames Television and Producer for the BBC. At the BBC, in 1990, Mike joined the team responsible for branding and promoting the...