Research staff

Shaun Allen-Dooley

Graduate Research Teaching Assistant

Shaun teaches on primary initial teacher education courses including BA and PGCE. He has taught on modules such as Professional Studies and Research in Education where he has helped to supervise student dissertations. He also has experience teaching on the MA module Critical Pedagogies and shares his experiences and insights...

Dr Ian Axtell BA (Hons); PGCE; DPSE; PG Cert; PG Dip; MEd

Senior Lecturer in Education Leadership

Ian has been working in education since 1984. He began his teaching career in Coventry working in arts education, mainly teaching music and music technology. In 1989 Ian moved to Birmingham to become a Head of Music in a school near the city centre. In 1993 he moved to Hereford, becoming a Curriculum Area Leader for Arts...

Dr Christopher Bolton

Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for PGCEi

Chris is a Senior Lecturer in Drama Education here at BCU. Before this role, he worked in secondary schools as a Drama Advanced Skills Teacher. He has a keen interest in how drama pedagogy can create spaces for dialogic learning within Initial Teacher Education and the role of autoethnography in exploring professional identity....

Dr Simon Cook

Senior Lecturer

Simon is a human geographer with specialisms in sport, exercise, physical cultures, mobilities, transport and everyday life. His research concerns everyday active practices, how they change, and what that tells us about society, spaces, cultures and bodies. This has included research into run-commuting, post-collision cycling...

Dr Vanessa Cui

Senior Research Fellow

Dr Vanessa Cui is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham City University Centre for the Study of Practices and Culture in Education (CSPACE). Her research work has mainly focused on the interface between education policy and practice from educators’ and learners’ perspectives across fields of education (e.g. teacher...

Dr Julia Everitt

Research Fellow

Dr. Julia Everitt is a Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Practice and Culture in Education (CSPACE). She is the Health, Education and Life Sciences (HELS) Lead for the Postgraduate Certificate in Research Practice and the co-lead for the Communities of Practice for Doctoral Supervision which is a professional...

Dr Amanda French

Reader

Amanda has worked in higher, further, adult education and the voluntary sector for 30 years as a lecturer, writing developer and researcher and is currently employed as Reader in Teaching and learning at Birmingham City University. Her PhD in Education: '"Through a glass darkly”: Lecturers perceptions of Academic Writing’:...

Georgina Garbett

Doctoral researcher

Georgina is a full-time doctoral candidate under the supervision of Victoria Kinsella and Alex Kendall. Before starting her PhD, Georgina worked in Adult and Community Learning for over 14 years, specialising in teaching literacy and English. For 5 years during this period she worked as an Assistant Manager leading a team...

Dr Louise Lambert

Associate Professor

Dr Lou Lambert has a background in schools’ education, initial teacher education and postgraduate education leadership. She is currently an Associate Professor at BCU where she teaches, researches, and writes about pedagogical practices across educational sectors and the use of arts-based, participatory and creative...

Dr K Louise McKnight

Senior Lecturer in Radiography

Louise is a Senior Lecturer in Radiography and Researcher at Birmingham City University. She enjoys teaching and supervising undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral research students. As a diagnostic radiographer, Louise worked in clinical practice for many years and brings that experience to vocational degree teaching in a...