Research staff

Professor Islah Ali-MacLachlan

Professor in Engineering Product Design

With nearly 30 years of academic experience and a prior background in industry, Prof. Ali-MacLachlan has made significant contributions to the fields of acoustics, audio engineering, and product design. His work combines research, teaching, and industry collaboration, focusing on creating innovative, practice-informed curricula...

Professor Cham Athwal

Professor of Digital Technology

Cham Athwal is currently working part-time as a Professor in the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment (CEBE). His main responsibilities are in developing and growing CEBE's activities in India. He has played a major role in developing the Munjal BCU Centre of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Ludhiana...

Professor Chris Creed

Professor of Human-Computer Interaction

Professor Creed specialises in the area of Human-Computer Interaction and has extensive experience in leading collaborative technical projects exploring the use of innovative technologies. His core research interest is around the design and development of assistive technology for disabled people across a range of impairments....

Lianne Forbes

Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in BA Visual Effects

Lianne is a Senior Lecturer with 14 years of high-end VFX film industry experience. Her focus is on forging strong links between the University and industry. She plans to develop student awareness of industry practices and produce more opportunities for them to engage with industry professionals. Lianne has worked on a long...

Dr Maite Frutos-Pascual

Lecturer in Digital Media Technology

Dr Maite Frutos-Pascual is a senior lecturer and active researcher at DMT Lab. She specialises in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), immersive technologies (Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality AR/VR), usability, user analysis, interactive systems and sensor data analysis and integration. She oversees research and industry...

Zeeshan Khattak

Lecturer in Digital Media Technology (BIFCA)

Zeeshan has been a lecturer for BCU and BIFCA at the Wuhan Textile University, China since 2018. His expertise lies in teaching media technology and digital video and audio production to levels 5 and 6 students of DMT at BIFCA, while also leading the final year technology project module. Prior to working as a lecturer, since...

Jake O'Connor

Assistant Lecturer

Jake O’Connor works as an Assistant Lecturer in Computer Games Technology, he specialises in game programming and the development of game engines, including graphics rendering and network programming. Jake is also interested in Virtual Reality, and serious games. He has collaborated with Sandwell Trust City Hospital to develop...

Jay Patel

Senior Lecturer

Jay had been involved with the delivery of ERDF projects such as Regional Innovation Network, Media Vault and MarketMaker. Since the successful completion of these projects he has moved in the teaching. He currently delivers a variety of modules such as Audio Visual Technology, Moving Image Technology and Mathematics for Media....

Mathew Randall

Senior Lecturer

Dr Mathew Randall is a Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University in the UK, where he lectures in visual effects and computer graphics. He is a member of the Graphics and Vision Research group, specializing in real-time analysis and manipulation of motion captured performances and applications of virtual production...

Sandeep Singh Chahil

Lecturer

Sandeep has a background in corporate video production, having spent several years producing content for commercial video projects. He’s experienced in all stages of this process, with a strong technical knowledge of hardware and software systems.