Art, Architecture and Design Research Staff
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Dr Rui Aristides Lebre
Lecturer in Architecture
Rui is an architect and academic devoted to the study of the social, cultural and political implications of space production. His research has involved questioning the political entanglements of Portuguese modern architecture culture (PhD 2017), understanding the role of colonial expert networks in setting the terms for...
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Sabine Lettmann
Senior Lecturer
Sabine started teaching fashion design in 2015. Since then, she teaches diverse fashion design related subjects with an emphasis on sustainability across different fashion programmes in Germany, Denmark and the UK including BA and MA level. She also shares her work through workshops and guest lectures and has been invited to...
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Jack Lewdjaw
Lecturer Fine Art
Jack Lewdjaw is an artist and educator who lives and works in Birmingham. He is Co-Director of the gallery East Bristol Contemporary , and Director of the alternative arts education project Day School . He was also a participant of Syllabus V: a peer-led alternative learning programme run in partnership with Wysing...
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Sophie Mackfall
Lecturer
Sophie Mackfall is an artist living and working in Birmingham. She is interested in surfaces and the edges of things, both material and immaterial. Starting with the idea of horizon as a spatial constant and her body as a physical constant to work with and against, she uses economical devices such as a clothesline or the fold...
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Dr Sana Malik
Lecturer in Architecture and Design
As an acknowledged academic, Sana teaches and mentors students in architectural and urban studies at Birmingham City University. She has over 14 years of experience in academic leadership, course development, and curriculum design. With certification in urban affordable housing from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, her...
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Dr. Lisa Metherell
Senior Lecturer in Art and Design
Dr Lisa Metherell is Research Degree Coordinator, supporting PhD students across Art and Design. She co-leads the Art Activisms research cluster . Lisa's research is particularly informed by the tensions between queer theory and phenomenology and how what we 'know' might be usefully troubled by what we 'feel'. She is...
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Dr Federica Mirra
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, Dr Mirra is conducting her post-doctoral research, The City as Art: Living Aesthetics in Twenty-First-Century China, at Birmingham School of Art (SoA). Her project focuses on what is often excluded from aesthetic experience: the everyday and collective practices in Chinese cities.
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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...
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Dr. Anastasia Nikologianni
Post Doctorate Fellow / Researcher
Dr. Anastasia Nikologianni holds an EIT Climate-KIC labelled PhD in Landscape Architecture and climate emergency with regards to the role of low carbon, spatial quality and the contribution design can make to the development of regional landscape-based spatial strategies. Anastasia is also qualified as a Landscape Architect MA...
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David Osbaldestin
Course Director for BA (Hons) Art Business
David Osbaldestin is the Interim Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fine Art and Course Leader for BA (Hons) Art and Design. A Creative Director with a passion for typography, David Osbaldestin is using his fine art and design skills to teach the complex art form of the printed letter. He has a wide ranging role at Birmingham...