Sport and Life Sciences staff

Paula Smith

Senior Lecturer and Joint Programme Leader, Master of Public Health (MPH)

Paula Smith brings a wide range of experience, knowledge and skills to her post including: Practitioner roles - Public Health/Health Promotion practice leading on the implementation of the Dudley Health Inequalities Strategy (for Dudley Community Partnership – job-share); Senior Health Promotion Officer (Community...

Jack Spencer

Jack is a postgraduate research student (GRTA) at Birmingham City University that assists academic members of staff with their teaching and research responsibilities while also conducting research for his doctorate (PhD). Jack’s research project focuses on a rare paediatric cancer called neuroblastoma that remains poorly...

Lynda Stobert

Senior Lecturer MSc Public Health

Lynda Stobert is the Programme Director to the MSc Public Health Programme and is also the module lead for the Social Science and Public Health module delivered on the course. She has extensive experience in teaching healthcare and public health students across a range of modules related to the sociology of health and illness,...

Tariq Tahir

Senior Lecturer

Tariq completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Liverpool in Microbiology. After graduation with a BSc Hons, he completed an International MSc at DeMontfort University, Leicester, where most of the learning was conducted in the Netherlands and Austria. Following the completion of his MSc, he secured a job as a...

Dr Peter Thain

Associate Professor and Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Sports Therapy

As a Chartered Physiotherapist and Sports Therapist, Peter has over a decade of experience working in basketball, football and netball. Peter is currently the clinical lead for the Great Britain Senior Women's Basketball Team, overseeing all performance and medical services. He has travelled the globe working at the...

Dr Kate Thomson

Associate Professor

Dr Kate Thomson is Director of Postgraduate Research Degrees for Health and leads on all aspects of recruitment, oversight and student experience for PhD (Health) . She is also a member of the Public Health & Therapies department.  Kate completed her postgraduate study at the University of Birmingham with a PhD on learning...

Dr Marie Voice

Lecturer, Biomedical Science

Marie completed her undergraduate studies in Biomedical Science at the University of Birmingham in 2010. She was awarded a Wellcome Trust PhD studentship in the field of Immunology and remained at the University to study in the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing. Her PhD focus was the biology of T lymphocytes in the blood and...

Dr Martin Vreugdenhil

Senior Lecturer in Human Physiology

Martin studied Biomedical Science at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) and developed a strong interest in neuroscience, especially in epilepsy. He did his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam (focus on changes in cell physiology in a rat model of epilepsy). After a post-doctoral research position at the...