Art, Architecture and Design Research Staff
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Professor Jiehong Jiang
Head of Research
Professor Jiang Jiehong is Head of Research (Art), Director of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University, and he is also Principal Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Intellect). Jiang has extensive research and curatorial experiences in contemporary art and visual culture. Jiang...
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Dr Yazid Khemri
Lecturer in Architecture
Dr Yazid Khemri has been involved in practice, research and teaching of Architecture for a decade. Yazid was awarded a PhD in Architecture by the University of Portsmouth, where he was also teaching across Design Studio, Technology and History and Theory. He holds an Architect diploma and an MSc in Architecture and Sustainable...
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Dr Rui Aristides Lebre
Lecturer, Course Leader for BA (Hons) Architecture
Dr. Lebre is an architect and academic focused on exploring ethnographically informed methods to examine the social and environmental effects of spatial production. He is currently lecturer and Course Leader for BA (Hons) Architecture at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment (ABE). As a designer, Dr. Lebre has...
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Dr Gyeonghwa Lee
Lecturer in Graphic Design
Awards 2021 AIC Best Paper Award International Colour Association. Milan, Italy. 2021 WD Wright Award The Colour Group (Great Britain), United Kingdom. 2018 AIC Student Paper Award International Colour Association. Lisbon, Portugal. 2016 Leeds Anniversary Research Scholarships University of Leeds, United...
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Sabine Lettmann
Senior Lecturer - BA (Hons) Fashion Design
Sabine started teaching fashion design in 2015. Since then, she teaches diverse fashion design related subjects with an emphasis on sustainability across different fashion programmes in Germany, Denmark and the UK including BA and MA level. She also shares her work through workshops and guest lectures and has been invited to...
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Jack Lewdjaw
Lecturer Fine Art
Jack Lewdjaw is an artist and educator who lives and works in Birmingham. He is Co-Director of the gallery East Bristol Contemporary , and Director of the alternative arts education project Day School . He was also a participant of Syllabus V: a peer-led alternative learning programme run in partnership with Wysing...
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Sophie Mackfall
Lecturer
Sophie Mackfall is an artist living and working in Birmingham. She is interested in surfaces and the edges of things, both material and immaterial. Starting with the idea of horizon as a spatial constant and her body as a physical constant to work with and against, she uses economical devices such as a clothesline or the fold...
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Dr Sana Malik
Lecturer in Architecture and Design
Dr Sana Malik is an academic, researcher, and academic leader in the Department of Architecture & Built Environment at Birmingham City University, with over 15 years of experience in higher education, academic leadership, curriculum development, programme management, and housing research. Her interdisciplinary work sits at the...
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Dr. Lisa Metherell
Senior Lecturer in Art and Design
Dr Lisa Metherell is Research Degree Coordinator, supporting PhD students across Art and Design. She co-leads the Art Activisms research cluster . Lisa's research is particularly informed by the tensions between queer theory and phenomenology and how what we 'know' might be usefully troubled by what we 'feel'. She is...
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Dr Federica Mirra
Visiting Research Fellow
Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, Dr Mirra is conducting her post-doctoral research, The City as Art: Living Aesthetics in Twenty-First-Century China, at Birmingham School of Art (SoA). Her project focuses on what is often excluded from aesthetic experience: the everyday and collective practices in Chinese cities.