Art, Architecture and Design Research Staff
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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.
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Dr. Anastasia Nikologianni
Post Doctorate Fellow / Researcher
Dr. Anastasia Nikologianni holds an EIT Climate-KIC labelled PhD in Landscape Architecture and climate emergency with regards to the role of low carbon, spatial quality and the contribution design can make to the development of regional landscape-based spatial strategies. Anastasia is also qualified as a Landscape Architect MA...
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David Osbaldestin
Course Director for MA Design: Active Practice
David Osbaldestin is the Course Director for MA Design: Active Practice. A Creative Director with a passion for typography, David Osbaldestin is using his fine art and design skills to teach the complex art form of the printed letter. He has a wide ranging role at Birmingham City University, teaching within Graphic Design,...
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Theo Reeves-Evison
Senior Lecturer in Theoretical and Contextual Studies
Dr. Theo Reeves-Evison is a writer, researcher and Senior Lecturer in Theoretical and Contextual Studies, where his research focuses on the critical imbrications of Art, Ecology and Visual Culture. From 2018-22 he was the principal investigator on the Leverhulme funded research project ‘Speculative Natures: Contemporary Art...
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Professor Rachel Sara
Oscar Naddermier Professor of Architecture | National Teaching Fellow
Rachel’s research explores the way in which health and wellbeing can be affected by architecture and design. She also explores ‘other' forms of architecture, specifically examining transdisciplinary architecture practices through collaborations between architecture and dance, co-design and hands-on, community-based...
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Dr Becky Shaw
Professor in Fine Art Practice
Becky Shaw is an artist, researcher and Professor in Fine Art Practice at Birmingham City University. She makes live, collaborative artworks that examine the tension between individuals, environment, tools and social structures, often in institutions of 'public good' including healthcare, education, utilities and work. ...
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Dr Jacqueline Taylor
Associate Professor in Contemporary Art
Jacqueline Taylor is an artist, writer, researcher and educator. She is the university’s academic lead for researcher development after spending many years leading doctoral education across the Arts, Design and Media. Her teaching specialism lies in art practice research, and she has presented, taught and published widely on...
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Dr Sian Vaughan
Associate Professor in Research Practice
Dr Sian Vaughan is Associate Professor in Research Practice and she leads RAAD – the centre for research in art, architecture, and design at Birmingham City University, providing strategic leadership, coordination, and care for a growing community of researchers. Sian is an internationally recognised researcher with...
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Gavin Wade
Senior Research Fellow
Gavin Wade is an award winning artist-curator, influential public gallery director of Eastside Projects and producer and curator of world-class public art, exhibition making, writing, and publishing over the last two decades. Wade is a pragmatic utopian. His practice combines upcycling, re-enactment and developing exhibiting...