Our People

Professor Xavier Mendik

Institutional Lead for the BCU Film Futures/BFI Partnership | Director of BCU Film Futures | Professor of Cult Cinema Studies

Xavier Mendik  is a Professor of Cult Cinema Studies at Birmingham City University, where he also runs the annual  Cine-Excess  International Film Festival ( www.cine-excess.co.uk ). He is the author, editor and co-editor of nine volumes on cult cinema traditions, including  Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress:...

Professor John Mercer

Professor of Gender and Sexuality, Director of Researcher Education and Development

John Mercer is Professor of Gender and Sexuality in the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research. His research interests focus on the social and cultural construction of masculinities in the 21st century. He is the author, with Clarissa Smith of Sexualised Masculinity: Men’s Bodies in 21st Century Media Culture...

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...

Dr Tychonas Michailidis

Research Assistant

Dr Andrew Millward

Deputy Head of School

Andrew is an academic manager with responsibility for the academic quality and the student experience in the School of Digital Media Technology. He is a qualified teacher who had worked in Schools and Colleges as well as lecturing in HE. He has lectured in business, management, professional and contextual studies for...

Dr Paul Millwood

Senior Lecturer and admissions tutor for Mental Health Nursing

Paul has worked in mental health nursing and nurse education for 34 years, with his time in practice being spent in community and specialist forensic mental health settings for children and adolescents. Following completion of his mental health and adult nurse training in the 1980s, Paul worked in a number of senior clinical...

René Mogensen

Music Technology Tutor

René Mogensen is a composer, musician, researcher, producer and educator, originally from Denmark. He has been involved in diverse genres of music, and has a wide, international experience both as a composer, performer and music technologist. He continues to be open-minded about musical explorations, and other artistic...

Dr Kassim Noor Mohammed

Lecturer in Criminology

Before joining Birmingham City University, Kassim was a Social Sciences Lecturer at Nottingham Trent International College and for four years prior to that he was a Sessional Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University. He has taught modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including: Principles of...

Professor Mervyn Morris

Professor of Community Mental Health and Director, Centre for Community Mental Health