LONDON EAST Research Institute

LERI Management

Everyday business is conducted by a Management Team, who is overlooked by a Managment Board, made up of colleagues from several departments at UEL.

The Management Team

Penny Bernstock is a Senior Lecturer in the field of Sociology. She was Principal Researcher for the Davies Arnold Cooper Housing Study, a detailed report on housing in the Thames Gateway. Penny is developing LERI's work on Olympics and Thames Gateway with particular reference to housing policy.

Andrew Calcutt has been a musician and producer (Precint Records), a journalist and revolutionary (Living Marxism), and a newspaper reviewer and cultural commentator (Talk Radio, Clarke TV for Channel 4). He now writes academic and trade books, edits Rising East for the London East Research Institute, and leads master's programmes in Journalism and Society, and Magazines, at the Docklands campus of the University of East London.

Phil Cohen is Professor Emeritus at UEL. His early research on youth culture and working class community has had an international influence and his more recent work on the impact of structural change on urban cultures has been supported by major grants from the Economic and Social Science Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust. His work over the last 20 years has focussed on East London and has dealt with issues of racism and multiculturalism, public safety and danger, the role of the cultural economy in urban regeneration and popular participation in planning. His books include Rethinking the Youth Question, New Ethnicities, Old Racisms and the forthcoming Questioning Ethnographies.

Syd Jeffers has recently joined the LERI Management Team. He is developing LERI’s Urban Buzz proposal and will programme lead the MA Urban Renewal.

Dr. Iain MacRury is Director of LERI. He has worked on a number of LERI projects publishing articles and reports following from the London City Airport Impact Study, the Newham Night Time Economy project and  from LERI's work focusing on Olympic Legacy. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Olympic Cities book (Ashgate 2008) and has a continuing interest in further developing LERI’s international, consultancy and Olympics research.

Professor Gavin Poynter is Chair of the LERI management board. He has carried out research into industrial restructuring and economic regeneration; knowledge, culture and the rise of the new economy; management and work organisation in the service sector and historical patterns of innovation and technological change. He has recently published a LERI Working Paper, 'From Beijing to Bow Bells', which examines the relationship between urban regeneration and the experience of cities that host the Olympic and Paralympic Games. He has contributed to consultancy projects for DAC, the Field Studies Council, ExCel London and the London Assembly. Recently, with Dr Iain Macrury, he has produced a journal article for the International History of Sport on ‘Striking Gold: Commodities, Gifts and the Economics of London 2012' and edited a book on 'Olympic Cities' - both of these will be published in Autumn 2008.

Mike Rustin is a Professor of Sociology at UEL and a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock Clinic. He was for ten years Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences at UEL, during which time the Faculty began Thames Gateway research via the East London Research Group. He co-edited Rising in the East (with Tim Butler) in 1996, contributed to Eastern Promise (ed. Tim Butler) in 2000, and was one of the founding editors of Rising East: the Journal of East London Studies, now being relaunched in electronic form.

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