Our People
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Dr Ghasson Shabha
Senior Lecturer
Ghasson is a Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University. Ghasson has obtained his PhD in Architecture from Bath University, UK. He is an architect by profession with a wide range of experience in the design and property management of office, residential and commercial buildings. He has acted in an advisory capacity to...
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Paula Smith
Senior Lecturer and Joint Programme Leader, Master of Public Health (MPH)
Paula Smith brings a wide range of experience, knowledge and skills to her post including: Practitioner roles - Public Health/Health Promotion practice leading on the implementation of the Dudley Health Inequalities Strategy (for Dudley Community Partnership – job-share); Senior Health Promotion Officer (Community...
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Professor Rob Smith
Professor of Education
Rob is a teacher and researcher who supervises students researching a range of doctoral topics relating to education. He also supports staff and students undertaking research in his role within CSPACE. He has extensive experience of writing and publishing collaboratively.
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Dion Smyth
Senior Lecturer (Cancer and Palliative Care)
Dion Smyth is a senior lecturer in cancer and palliative care, and teaches on both the undergraduate pre and post-registration curriculum and postgraduate courses. In the pre-registration BSc Nursing programme, Dion coordinates the module Nursing Practice 2, which addresses cancer, immunology, auto-immune conditions such as...
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Professor John Sparrow
Professor of Occupational Psychology
John Sparrow, as a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society, has used his unique skill set to write extensively on knowledge processes in organisations, including organisational cognition, knowledge management and reflective practice as they relate to knowledge creation and use.
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Bernie St Aubyn
Senior Lecturer (Adult Nursing), Department of Pre-Qualifying Practice
Bernie aims to teach in a clear, engaging and inspiring fashion and to enthuse students with the love of nursing.
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Dr Charlotte Stevens
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications
Charlotte is interested in media audiences and games. She co-leads the BCMCR Game Cultures research cluster. Her current research focuses on Chinese television: tomb-raiding dramas, remediation of video games in television programmes, and experiences of English-language audiences for Chinese television. She has previously...
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Lynda Stobert
Senior Lecturer MSc Public Health
Lynda Stobert is the Programme Director to the MSc Public Health Programme and is also the module lead for the Social Science and Public Health module delivered on the course. She has extensive experience in teaching healthcare and public health students across a range of modules related to the sociology of health and illness,...
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Dr Panch Suntharalingam
Associate Professor
Dr Panch Suntharalingam is an Associate Professor for International at Birmingham City University and a distinguished academic, researcher, and innovation leader with extensive experience in higher education, internationalisation, knowledge transfer, and industry collaboration. Based in the West Midlands, United Kingdom, he...
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Dr Stephen Swann
Senior Lecturer
Dr Stephen Swann lectured at Oxford Brookes University, the University of Leicester and the University of Dundee before becoming a teaching and research fellow at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. He has been a Research Assistant within the Property and Trust Law Team at the Law Commission.