Research staff

Claudia Carter

Professor in Environmental Governance and Planning

Claudia is a Professor in the field of interdisciplinary research and environmental governance. Her research relates to climate change and sustainability adopting social-ecological systems thinking and approaches. Her main areas of interest are the opportunities and barriers to 'low-impact' living and the transformative...

Professor Silvia Gullino

Professor of City Making

Silvia is a Professor of City Making and a Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI). With an interdisciplinary background in Architecture and Urban Planning, her academic ethos centres on understanding cities as complex socio-economic, physical, environmental, and political systems. Addressing urban...

Professor David Higgins

Professor of Real Estate

Dr David Higgins is the Professor of Real Estate, Birmingham City University and past Visiting Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Xiamen University, China. David has worked in both industry and academia in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and China. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered...

Professor Peter Larkham

Professor of Planning

Peter Larkham is Professor of Planning at the University’s College of the Built Environment. He teaches planning-related issues such as conservation and urban design on the College’s BSc and MSc courses and leads its Postgraduate Certificate in Research Practice. Peter studied for his PhD in Urban Geography at the University...

Mr Timothy Lee

Associate Professor in Property Investment

Tim ran his own property firm on the Isle of Wight for over ten years and during that time completed his MSc Real Estate. Following that he secured funding for his PhD at Reading University where he explored the challenges of making energy efficiency improvements to the housing stock. His first academic position was as a...

Dr Monica Mateo-Garcia

Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Built Environment

Dr. Monica Mateo-Garcia is a Senior Lecturer in Built Environment at Birmingham City University. She teaches building design, production, sustainability, research and innovation in undergraduate and postgraduate courses across the School. Monica is an Architect with over 15 years' professional and academic experience. She...

Dr Mohammad Mayouf

Senior Lecturer in Digital Built Environment

Mohammad comes from a Civil Engineering background, which was obtained from Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus in 2010. Following his undergraduate degree, Mohammad worked for a year in the industry, and came to England in 2011 to pursue an MSc degree in Project Management at Teesside University. In 2012, he was...

Professor Nick Morton

Associate Dean (Student Experience)

Nick joined what is now Birmingham City University in 2003. He was Course Leader for the School’s RTPI-accredited undergraduate planning degrees for a number of years, including leading the design of the BSc (Hons) Planning & Development route in 2006, and was appointed Director of Undergraduate Studies to overview the entire...

Nicki Schiessel Harvey

Senior Lecturer in Built Environment & Director of Student Recruitment

Nicki is an environmental planning professional-turned-academic. Her research focuses on changing values of inland waterways and how values are incorporated into policy decision-making. She also has a passion for supporting student transition into Higher Education and leads on student recruitment and induction within the...

Simeon Shtebunaev

Doctoral researcher

Simeon's PhD research revolves around planning strategies for youth participation in the co-production of future cities and democratising power relations in smart cities’ agendas.