Criminology and Sociology Staff
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Dr Mohammed Rahman
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Dr Mohammed Rahman is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University.
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Laura Riley
Lecturer in Criminology
Laura Riley is a Lecturer in Criminology and PhD researcher at Birmingham City University. Her research focuses upon desistance from serious offending and the importance of the community in this process. Her teaching interests include: Policing, vulnerabilities, ethics and qualitative research methods.
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Dr Dan Rusu
Lecturer in Criminology
Dan is a lecturer in criminology at Birmingham City University, where he has taught since 2016. Prior to his work at BCU, Dan completed his Masters in Psychological Science at University of Glasgow.
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Dr Ryan Scoats
Lecturer in Sociology
Dr Ryan Scoats gained his BA (Hons) and Master of Research from the University of Bath, and his PhD in Sociology from the University of Winchester (2017). He has previously been a lecturer in Sports Sociology at both Wolverhampton and Winchester Universities, lecturer in Sociology at Coventry University, and a researcher at...
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Leon Skerritt
Associate Lecturer in Criminology
Education is the journey to social justice and equality, and teachers are the navigators for that journey. Teaching at an institution like BCU gives the opportunity to positively impact the local community through education.
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Dr Tony Talburt
Senior Lecturer in Black Studies, Course Leader – BA (Hons) Black Studies and BA (Hons) Black Studies with Criminal Justice
Having lived and taught in Jamaica, Ghana and also the UK, teaching African Caribbean history and politics, Tony Talburt has developed particular interests in the history of Africa and its peoples on the continent or in the Black Diaspora.
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Dr Dionne Taylor
Associate Professor in Sociology, Course Leader – MA Black Studies
Dr Dionne Taylor's role in BCU is about supporting, inspiring and guiding the students to reach beyond what many of them believe is possible. Encouraging students to work through the challenges, barriers and limitations to success is one of the reasons she became an academic.
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Dr Monica Thomas
Lecturer in Criminology
Dr Monica Thomas is a Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University. Monica’s research is situated within the intersecting fields of Black feminist thought, Black feminist criminology, matricentric criminology and narrative epistemology, through which she aims to critically challenge institutional contexts of...
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Steve Wadley
Teaching Fellow
Steve Wadley spent 8 years as an Authorised Firearms Officer with the Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) before making the transition to a lecturer within the FE/HE sector.
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Dr James Williams
Senior Research Fellow
Dr James Williams is a historian by background with a passionate interest in the origins and development of contemporary society and culture, both at macro and micro levels.