Members of staff
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Dr Simon Cook
Senior Lecturer
Simon is a human geographer with specialisms in sport, exercise, physical cultures, mobilities, transport and everyday life. His research concerns everyday active practices, how they change, and what that tells us about society, spaces, cultures and bodies. This has included research into run-commuting, post-collision cycling...
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Dr Kwabena Duedu
Associate Professor in Life Sciences
Kwabena joined BCU in 2023 as Associate Professor in Life Sciences having worked as Associate Professor in Biomedical Sciences in Ghana and a Global Health Fellow at the Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States. He completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2015. He worked as a...
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Dr Hora Davari Ejtehadi
Associate Professor
Dr Hora Ejtehadi is an Associate Professor. She studied Medicine and continued further education by completing PhD in Biomedical Science field. She joined Birmingham City University in 2004 and awarded Diploma in Higher Education in 2007. She led School of Health Sciences Enterprise for couple of years and moved on leading the...
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Dr Martin Figgitt
Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences
Martin has a very strong and varied biomedical science background having been engaged in both research activities and clinical diagnostic services. His clinical science experience includes working in hospital blood sciences laboratories performing various blood tests, such as full blood counts, coagulation screening and blood...
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Dr Basiru Gai
Lecturer in Public Health
Basiru is a medical doctor with extensive experience in improving health outcomes in low and middle-income countries. With a solid foundation in clinical practice, he has transitioned into the area of Public Health and holds a Master's Degree in Public Health from Birmingham City University, which later paved his academic...
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Dr Martin Goldberg
Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology
Martin has a wide range of expertise which includes clinical and diagnostic microbiology, bacterial molecular biology / genetics, food microbiology / safety, discovery of novel antimicrobial compounds and bacterial physiology. This range of expertise is vital when working in a biomedical environment where a broad knowledge is...
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Dr Lewis Gough
Associate Professor in Nutrition and Physiology
Lewis is part of the Senior Leadership Team in the College of Life Sciences and is the College Academic Lead for REF (Research Excellence Framework). He also holds editorial positions with BMC Nutrition and Frontiers in Sport and Active Living and is known worldwide for his work on sodium bicarbonate supplementation. Lewis...
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Dr Helen Gravestock
Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science
Helen has worked in learning and teaching in Higher Education for 7 years in Sport and Exercise Science undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Helen has also completed a PGCert in Higher Education and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Helen completed her PhD at Leeds Beckett University, where she measured and...
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Richard Handyside
Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science
Richard has extensive applied experience in the field of Performance Analysis, having provided Performance Analysis support to elite coaches and athletes at the The English Institute of Sport, England Netball, Arsenal Football Club and Leeds United Football Club. Winning a Gold Medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the...
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Dr Chris Hartley
Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences
Dr Hartley completed a BSc in Sports and Exercise Science at the University of Leeds before working for an orthopaedic company. Whilst working he completed an MSc in Biomechanics at Manchester Metropolitan University. Chris completed his PhD at Loughborough University, investigating ‘the effect of high impact exercise on...