Jewellery staff
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Dauvit Alexander
Senior Lecturer
Dauvit trained at the jewellery bench from the age of around 14, starting with award-winning Scottish designer, John Gilchrist in Glasgow. His first degree was a mis-step into Landscape Architecture and he soon returned to jewellery, building a reputation and career as a fine jeweller and, eventually, educator. He has...
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Beaulagh Brooks
Course Director, Senior Lecturer
A highly experienced Educator, Academic, Manager and Designer-Maker, with a passion for Teaching & Learning focusing on the Creative Industries and Applied Arts. Beaulagh is especially interested in Studio Practice and developing students employability and Graduate enterprise skills, alongside creative research and practice....
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Dr Ann-Marie Carey
Associate Professor
Ann-Marie is a Research Fellow for Jewellery. She specialises in combining craftsmanship with laser technology to introduce new perspectives of understanding. She has worked with museums in London and Birmingham to create replicas of the Cheapside Hoard and Staffordshire Hoard respectively. In her academic career, Dr...
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Nuala Clooney
Lecturer
Nuala Clooney is an artist working with sculpture and video based in Birmingham, UK, and  teaches on BA honours Jewellery and Objects course. Nuala has exhibited internationally and extensively across the UK. She was selected by Art & Heritage for a new commission project for Middleport Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent, (2021). ...
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Melanie Eddy
Lecturer in Jewellery and Objects
Melanie is an educator and independent jewellery designer/maker with an individual style of jewellery that is handmade in precious metals to a high standard. Melanie is consistently involved in projects relating to her field; teaching, research, writing, and curation are examples. Experience of living, studying and working in a...
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Suzanne Ettrick
Lecturer
Sue has over 26 years’ experience working in the jewellery industry ranging from retail to manufacturing; Sue runs her own business specializing in bespoke jewellery design, repairs, restoration and remodelling. A majority of the business is remodelling sentimental jewellery, reusing sentimental and precious materials and...
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Kevin Grey
Technician
Kevin creates unique pieces that use, almost exclusively, TIG welding techniques to join individually hand-formed pieces of silver. The mastery of the welding technique allows him to achieve the precision, scale, and dramatic impact of the work; however, technique is not his sole concern. The starting point for each piece is...
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Dr Sian Hindle
Senior Lecturer and Academic Lead for Research in History of Jewellery
Sian Hindle is a Senior Lecturer in History of Jewellery. Her research interests centre on jewellery as an element of dress, and she holds a PhD exploring how jewellery’s wear and use can contribute to the formation of individual and collective identities. The thesis sits at the intersection of a number of disciplines, and...
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Andrew Howard
Senior Lecturer
Andrew has been lecturing on the Jewellery and Silversmithing - Design for Industry (DFI) course since January 2016. He has strong links to the Jewellery Industry and uses these to his student’s advantage from organising group visits to allow students to see behind the scenes in large companies to sign posting them to the best...
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Bridie Lander
Senior Lecturer
Bridie is an experienced jewellery designer/maker and lecturer. She spent several years as an artist and academic in Australia where latterly she was Coordinator of the Jewellery and Object Studio at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Some of her work was recently included in a group exhibition,...