Our People
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Dr Carrie Churnside
Associate Professor in Music & Research Degrees Coordinator
Carrie Churnside is Associate Professor in Music and Research Degrees Coordinator. She is also Director of the Forum for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Music , and leads Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team. Carrie specialises in Italian Baroque music, particularly vocal music,...
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Professor Lamberto Coccioli
Professor of Music and Technology, Associate Principal, Director of the Integra Lab
Coccioli is originally from Italy, where he studied composition with Edgar Alandia and then Azio Corghi at Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan. Of lasting formative influence were also his journeys to remote areas of Colombia to record music and sounds of indigenous and mestizo communities. In a career spanning over 30 years...
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Professor Richard Coles
Professor of Urban Landscape and Environmental Interaction
Richard is Professor of Urban Landscape and Environmental Interaction, having a strong interest in the environment both from biological perspectives and the ways that individuals use and perceive it. His original discipline is forestry but, working within an architectural school and within an art and design faculty, he is in a...
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Dr Sam Coley
Associate Professor, College Academic Lead for Distance & Transnational Education Course Leader MA Media Production
Sam Coley is the College Academic Lead for Distance and Transnational Education at the Birmingham College of English and Media. He is also Award Leader for the MA Media Production and teaches a range of undergraduate and postgraduate audio production modules. Coley is a member of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural...
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Dr Gemma Commane
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication
Dr Gemma Commane is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications. Broadly the areas of her expertise span the fields of media and cultural studies and gender and sexuality. Her research interests focus on contemporary cultural studies, gender and sexuality, queer studies, sexual economies and entrepreneurship, dangerous...
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Ethan Connor
Education Facilitator / Module Leader
Ethan works as Education Facilitator across a wide range of academic skills with a particular focus on teaching critical analysis/critical thinking and its integration into course provision. He is module leader for the Essential Academic Skills for Study module (online) and joint module co-ordinator for the APEL module.
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Dr Amy Cook
Associate Professor in Psychology
Dr Amy Cook's research interest is closely aligned to teaching and practice and is focused on the student experience including learning and wellbeing.
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Dr Sarah Cooper
Professor of Interdisciplinary Research and Criminal Justice
Dr Sarah Cooper is a Reader in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, the Director of Research in the School of Law, and a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Authority. She is also a Site Director for the Midlands 4 Cities Doctoral Training Partnership, which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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Dr Richard Cornish
Senior Lecturer
Dr Richard Cornish is an Automotive Engineer with a wide experience of automotive research and development, especially developing test methods and models to capture new practical knowledge and theoretical insights. His areas of expertise include modelling and simulation, test, measurement, and product perception. His c...
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Dr Sandra Costa
Academic lead for Landscape Architecture
Sandra is a lecturer and researcher in landscape architecture and design with diversified experience encompassing teaching, research and professional practice. She has lectured in the UK and Portugal in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Her teaching explores current issues and challenges faced by landscapes and the...