Our People
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Dr Thomas Domboka
Head of Department of Management, Business and Marketing
Tom comes from a strong entrepreneurial and management background with experience in starting new businesses, having worked with a variety of organisations in the UK and overseas. He is now the Head of Business, Digital Transformation and Entrepreneurship.
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Professor Anthony Downey
Professor of Visual Culture
Dr. Anthony Downey is Professor of Visual Culture, with a focus on the Middle East and Global South (Birmingham City University). Developing national and international partnerships with artists and cultural organisations, Downey's interdisciplinary research contributes to and supports a critical understanding of postcolonial...
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Dr Asya Draganova
Lecturer in Media and Communication
Dr Asya Draganova is a Lecturer in Media and Popular Music Culture and a researcher co-leading the Popular Music Research Cluster based at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research . Asya is the Course Director for MA Media and Cultural Studies and teaches across all MA programmes at the School of Media within the...
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Professor Rajinder Dudrah
Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries
Rajinder Dudrah is Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries and served as the Interim Associate Dean for Research, Innovation and Enterprise in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at Birmingham City University (2021-22). He has also served as the University's AHRC-funded Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training...
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Aleksandar Dunjerovic
Professor in Performing Arts
Aleksander is an internationally award winning professional theatre director. His research and theatre practice informs his learning and teaching and development of student experience. In his 26 years of theatre career, he has directed across Britain, Ireland, Serbia, Romania, Iran, Colombia, Japan, Brazil and Canada. His...
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Professor David Edwards
Professor of Plant and Machinery Management
David has accrued considerable leadership and management experience in the roles of teaching, award management and development, quality enhancement, student liaison and the national student survey (NSS), academic administration and research at a number of higher education institutes in this country and abroad. He is currently...
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Professor David J Edwards
Director of Centre for Business Innovation and Enterprise
David worked as a Senior Construction Manager for a local company and contracted to major construction and civil engineer companies before joining academia. He gained formative teaching and learning and administration experience whilst working at the University of Wolverhampton (as a Senior Research Fellow) but went onto...
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Dr Alison Edwards
Visiting Lecturer - Midwifery
Alison first qualified as a general nurse in 1988 and following a few years as a nurse in gynaecology and care of the elderly, a move into Midwifery was made. The main areas Alison worked in included fetal medicine, day assessment, coordination of delivery suite and also managing a postnatal and antenatal ward. This lead into...
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Dr Helen Egan
Reader in Health Psychology
Helen gained her PhD in Health Psychology, became a Research Fellow in Mental Health and then worked in the NHS before coming to BCU in 2011.
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Dr Hora Davari Ejtehadi
Associate Professor
Dr Hora Ejtehadi is an Associate Professor. She studied Medicine and continued further education by completing PhD in Biomedical Science field. She joined Birmingham City University in 2004 and awarded Diploma in Higher Education in 2007. She led School of Health Sciences Enterprise for couple of years and moved on leading the...