Health Sciences staff directory

Dr Irfan Khawaja

Senior Lecturer in Physical Education

Irfan has over 12 years teaching experience including in mainstream Primary and Secondary schools, Higher Education, and internationally in South Africa. Prior to teaching, Irfan worked in schools as part of the Extended Schools Programme in a Multi-skills Community Sports Coach role and has experience of organising...

Kathy Kinmond

Chartered Psychologist

Kathy is a Chartered Psychologist, Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist, she is also accredited by BSCAH having completed the BSCAH/Staffordshire University course in Clinical Hypnosis. She has been an academic in Higher education for over 25 years, during which time she has been module leader for several UG modules,...

Tom Lawrence

Head of the Personalised Care Centre

Tom Lawrence is the head of the Personalised Care Centre and has been engaged in health policy and academic roles since 2016 at Birmingham City University. His primary focus is on integrated and personalised care, where he leads initiatives in research, evaluations, and training. He has collaborated with multiple...

Tom Lawrence

School of Health Sciences

Tim Leary

Senior Lecturer in Sports Therapy

Tim is a Senior Lecturer who has been involved with the teaching and development of the BSc (Hons) degree in Sports Therapy degree at Birmingham City University since it started in 2017. He has considerable experience of course development and teaching having taught on two previous Sports Therapy degree programmes since 2005....

David Lee

Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences

David completed his degree and PhD at the University of Birmingham before embarking on a research career as a Senior Research and Teaching Fellow. He joined Birmingham City University in 2016 as lead for the Biomedical sciences programme. David maintains research links with the University of Birmingham where he continues to...

Professor Kiara Lewis

Professor of Sport and Exercise Sciences

Kiara is a BASES accredited researcher in psychology, a Fellow of BASES and the HEA and current chair of BASES Division of Physical Activity for Health and BASES Equality, Diversity and Inclusion champion. Kiara has sourced various external research income grants including from Sport England which led to the development of a...

Cathy Liddle

Senior Lecturer (Skills and Simulation)

In 2000 Cathy joined Birmingham City University when it was known as University of Central England (UCE) following a career working at local Trusts. Cathy qualified at Good Hope Hospital and worked on a general medical ward before moving to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital or University Hospital Birmingham (UHB) as it is known now....

Jeremy Lima

School of Health Sciences

Jeremy Lima qualified as a Diagnostic Radiographer at the University of Hertfordshire in 2009 after moving to England from Gibraltar. He worked at a large NHS foundation trust in Oxford before joining BCU.