Art, Architecture and Design Research Staff
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Theo Reeves-Evison
Senior Lecturer in Theoretical and Contextual Studies
Dr. Theo Reeves-Evison is a writer, researcher and Senior Lecturer in Theoretical and Contextual Studies, where his research focuses on the critical imbrications of Art, Ecology and Visual Culture. From 2018-22 he was the principal investigator on the Leverhulme funded research project ‘Speculative Natures: Contemporary Art...
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Professor Rachel Sara
Oscar Naddermier Professor of Architecture | National Teaching Fellow
Rachel’s research explores the way in which health and wellbeing can be affected by architecture and design. She also explores ‘other' forms of architecture, specifically examining transdisciplinary architecture practices through collaborations between architecture and dance, co-design and hands-on, community-based...
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Franziska Schenk
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
Franziska is an artist, researcher and educator whose practice has been located at the interface of Art, Science and Ecology for more than two decades. Notably, she has collaborated with scientists from the emerging fields of biomimetics and bio-photonics to introduce latest nature-inspired ‘smart’ materials and methodologies...
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Professor Becky Shaw
Professor in Fine Art Practice
Becky Shaw is an artist, researcher and Professor in Fine Art Practice at Birmingham City University. She makes live, collaborative artworks that examine the tension between individuals, environment, tools and social structures, often in institutions of 'public good' including healthcare, education, utilities and work. ...
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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...
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Dr Jacqueline Taylor
Senior Lecturer in Research Practice
Jacqueline Taylor is an artist, writer, researcher and educator. She is the doctoral education lead for the faculty of Arts, Design and Media where she develops and delivers research training for PhD researchers. Her teaching specialism lies in the area of practice research and she has presented, taught and published widely on...
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Dr Sian Vaughan
Reader in Research Practice
Dr Sian Vaughan is Reader in Research Practice with expertise in doctoral education and creative research methods. She is Director of Research for RAAD – research in art, architecture, and design (REF UoA32) where she provides strategic leadership, coordination, and care for a growing community of researchers. As Reader in...
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Gavin Wade
Senior Research Fellow
Gavin Wade is an award winning artist-curator, influential public gallery director of Eastside Projects and producer and curator of world-class public art, exhibition making, writing, and publishing over the last two decades. Wade is a pragmatic utopian. His practice combines upcycling, re-enactment and developing exhibiting...
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Cathy Wade
Course Leader MA Arts and Education Practices
Cathy is an artist, writer and academic whose work is concerned with how art can be created and distributed in collaborative partnerships and through the creation of commons. Her work seeks to understand the experience of contemporary conditions through social practice and is realised as digital video, print, installation,...
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Dr Lauren Walden
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Contemporary Chinese Art
Dr Lauren Walden's first degree was in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Spanish) at the University of Cambridge. Having gained linguistic fluency, her cultural interests broadened beyond literature and an interest in visual arts and cultural institutions emerged. This was initially met by a Masters in Museum Studies at...