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Stephen Dawkins

Associate Head of School (Student Experience) stephen.dawkins@coventry.ac.uk


John Burns

Course Director and Assistant Professor in MA Illustration and Animation| john.burns@coventry.ac.uk John has had animation work shown at the Astrium Space Technology Conference, Space Room, The Science Museum, London Oct 2010 and at Farnborough Airshow between 2007-2009. He has had exhibitions in Blackburn, The Lake District, Birmingham (MAC), Bath, Wardour Street, London, Frankfurt, and Paris individually and within groups.


Rachelle Viader Knowles

Associate Head of School- International | ab7307@coventry.ac.uk Dr Rachelle Viader Knowles is an artist, educator and researcher. Her most recent works explore text and language, translocality, dialogue as art, and artistic practices/methods developed through participation, collaboration and networks. 


Dr Shaun Hides

Dean| sean.hides@coventry.ac.uk In 1997 Shaun joined the Coventry University as Assistant Professor in Communication Culture and Media, from Leeds Metropolitan University, where he had been Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures in the School of Arts and Contemporary Cultures. 


Darryl Georgiou

Associate Professor in Media Arts| darryl.georgiou@coventry.ac.uk Darryl Georgiou is an interdisciplinary artist, exhibiting internationally and working across a range of media. His artwork is held in both national and international collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens/New York. 


Chris Johnson

Associate Professor| chris.johnson@coventry.ac.uk Director of Design Project Work, with overall responsibility for all commercial design activity within the purpose built studios attached to the School of Art and Design.


Nicole Panizza

Assistant Professor in Music Performance| nicole.panizza@coventry.ac.uk Nicole Panizza is one of Ireland’s and the UK’s leading vocal accompanists, recitalists and coaches. Nicole studied at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, South Australia before continuing her postgraduate studies in London with Malcolm Martineau and Roger Vignoles. 


Gwénola Bescond

Course Director, Languages for Global Communication | School of Humanities | Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Email: aa2799@coventry.ac.uk


Dr James Henry

Lecturer in English | School of Humanities | Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Email: bsx271@coventry.ac.uk 


Spencer Murphy

Assistant Professor in Media and Communication| spencer.murphy@coventry.ac.uk Spencer’s specialist field of academic interest is cross cultural analysis, post colonial theory and south East Asian cinema.


Robert Smith

Lecturer in International Relations| robert.smith@coventry.ac.uk Robert's research focuses on the theory and practice of statebuilding; contemporary Iraqi politics; counterinsurgency strategies in post-conflict environments; and British foreign policy during the Blair era.


Lisa Webb

Course Director and Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design| lisa.webb@coventry.ac.uk Lisa's subject specialism is Electronic Art and she has undertaken research and development work in the areas of PDP, as well as working proactively with the other School of Art and Design Teaching Development Fellow to develop pedagogic strategies for embedding PDP and Enterprise and Employability initiatives within the curriculum.


Salvatore Coluccello

Salvatore works for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in the School of Humanities


Dr Michael Cribb

Assistant Professor of English Language | School of Humanities | Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Email: aa6177@coventry.ac.uk


Monika Koehler-Ridley

Assistant Professor in English Language| michael.cribb@coventry.ac.uk Michael spent many years teaching English language and linguistics in the Far East before returning to the United Kingdom in 2004. He currently teaches English language at Coventry University where he specialises in discourse analysis and psycholinguistics. A fellow of the HEA (Higher Education Academy) and he has presented at many conferences, the most recent one being in Valencia, Spain.


Simon Smith

Assistant Professor in Academic English| simon.smith@coventry.ac.uk Simon is a published, research-active corpus linguists who consider himself first and foremost language teacher.


Dr. Tim Nisbet

Lecturer in English and German| tim.nisbet@coventry.ac.uk Tim completed a PhD in Germanic linguistics at the University of Reading in 2007 and has since worked at Coventry University mainly teaching academic English with a leaning towards the needs of postgraduates. I have also given language teacher training and presently manage the University’s German language provision.


Tiziana Cervi-Wilson

Assistant Professor | School of Humanities | Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Email: t.cervi@coventry.ac.uk 


Holly Vass

Assistant Professor in English and Languages| holly.vass@coventry.ac.uk Holly works in the area of TEFL and she is a Cambridge-approved CELTA tutor. Holly’s background is in Spanish and applied linguistics, and she lived and taught EFL in Spain for over two decade.


Dr. Damian Sutton

Professor of Photography Theory and Culture| damian.sutton@coventry.ac.uk Damian leads research support and development in the School of Media and Performing Arts, working with researchers and research practitioners in media production, photography, theatre, music and dance.