Research Staff

Dr Colette Jeffrey

Associate Professor of Wayfinding & Inclusive Design

Dr Colette Jeffrey is an Associate Professor of Wayfinding and Inclusive Design at Birmingham City University where she teaches wayfinding and graphic design on the BA(Hons) Graphic Design course, supervises PhDs, and researches real-world wayfinding behaviour. Her PhD investigated why people get lost in buildings and the...

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 David Prytherch

Senior Research Fellow in Haptics and Computer Interface Design

David Prytherch is Senior Research Fellow in Haptics and Computer Interface Design. Originally trained as a teacher of Art and Design, he has 30 years' professional experience as a freelance glass engraver/sculptor and is a Fellow of the Guild of Glass Engravers. Following a disabling road accident in 1986, and a dawning...

Salman Qureshi

Research Fellow

Dr Salman Qureshi is a Research Fellow at the School of Architecture. His research to date has been funded by the Fellowships awarded by the Leverhulme Trust UK and the Charles Wallace Trust UK. His research orbit is distinctly inter-disciplinary and focuses on the human dimensions of the effects of landscape pattern on urban...

Zoe Robertson

Course Director, BA (Hons) Jewellery Design and Related Products

Award winning jewellery artist Zoe Robertson is a practice based researcher at the School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University. Her studio is based in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham and her work is exhibited within an international arena and images of her work are published extensively, to see more visit the exhibitions...

Dr Panch Suntharalingam

Course Director for MA Design and Visualisation

Dr Panch Suntharalingam is currently the Course Director for MA Design and Visualisation at Birmingham City University. He teaches product design, interior design and interior products design in the UK and abroad and his areas of expertise and interests include: design and visualisation, engineering product design, industrial...

Hannah Vowles

Deputy Head of Architecture and Associate Professor

Studied architecture at Kingston and the Architectural Association. Worked in architectural practice for 10 years, public and private sector. Founded art practice / project Art in Ruins with Glyn Banks – exhibitions, published critical writing, curating, teaching. Founding Chair of association of architectural educators [aae]....