Sport and Life Sciences staff

Dr Faizan Ahmad

Lecturer

Dr Faizan Ahmad possesses experience in the multidisciplinary fields of engineering within the industry and academia. He has worked in different roles in mechanical and biomedical engineering disciplines, with a primary emphasis on engineering, biomedical and soft tissue material mechanics. He served as a design, stress,...

Dr Huda Al-Kateb

Senior Lecturer

Dr Al-Kateb is an experienced food and nutrition scientist with over 25 years’ experience of working in a variety of roles and initiatives in agri-food across the supply chain for academia, industry and the public health sectors. In recent years, she has developed new provisions and degree programmes in food and nutrition...

Professor Ahmad Alkhatib

Professor of Life Sciences

Professor Alkhatib is a world-leading expert in lifestyle medicine, with a 30-year career at top academic, clinical and industry roles, combining the disciplines of public health, nutrition and exercise sciences. Professor Alkhatib's most recent role was leading Preventative Healthcare and Doctorate of Health Program at...

Dr Olatunde Aremu

Health Economist & Joint Programme Leader, Master of Public Health (MPH)

Dr. Aremu specialises in Health Economics and Management and Population health. Dr. Aremu completed doctoral training at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. He has more than 15 years of experience spanning MedTech consulting, Public Health, clinical practice and academia. Dr. Aremu has held a couple of postdoctoral academic...

Dr James Barnett

Senior Lecturer (Biomedical Sciences)

James graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2000 with a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and Genetics. James’ first graduate job was at The Binding Site Ltd, where he was employed as a technician In the monoclonal antibodies department. James later embarked on a research career, and in 2002 joined the group of Professor Colin...

Dr Fouad Berrahou

Senior Lecturer (subject lead), Health Leadership and Management

Dr Fouad Berrahou joined the University in 2014 as Subject Lead in Health Leadership and Management and Programme Director for the online MBA in Health. In 2010, founded a start-up company, Founouvel Informatics, Inc., in Oran, Algeria and directed the development and testing of an intuitive and integrated electronic health...

Rachel Black

Course Leader BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science

Rachel gained qualified teacher status in Physical Education in 1999, and has a wealth of experience teaching, leading and advising in a range of both primary and secondary schools in Sussex and Shropshire. Rachel has gained considerable experience teaching in Higher Education, and prior to joining the team at Birmingham City...

Jennie Carter

Leader BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Nutrition

Jennie is a Lecturer on the Sport and Exercise Nutrition Program at Birmingham City University. Jennie is a Performance Nutrition Practitioner who is passionate about applying sports nutrition knowledge into practice. She has 10 years’ experience of working within professional sport. Jennie has predominantly worked with...

Ian Chell

Visiting Lecturer for Biomedical Engineering

Ian Chell MSc FSRP, is the visiting lecturer working with Viji on the Medical Device module. Ian is an experienced x-ray and medical engineer who obtained his Master of Science in Medical Electronics and Physics at St Barts Medical School, now QM Westfield. Ian started his career in 1976 as an apprentice with Siemens Energy...

Dr Cain Clark

Associate Professor (Life Sciences) and MRes Course Leader

Dr Clark is skilled in statistics and data analytics applied to public health, nutrition, and sports and exercise. Dr Clark is an experienced academic with an extensive portfolio of scholarly work, including publications, grant acquisition, and supervision. He has a strong interest in systematic reviews and meta-analyses,...