Sola Adebiyi
was born in the UK, grew up in Nigeria and lived for five years in Japan. She
returned to the UK with her three children in 1992. She worked on the creation
of the North Woolwich Sculpture Garden and recently joined the board of Theatre
Venture Committee as vice-chair.
Elizabeth Bieler is a researcher at the
University of North London, where she has recently conducted joint research on
ethnic minority business. She is presently starting work on her PhD at the
University College London where her research interests include ethnic minority
business, urban policy, enterprise, and discourses of ethnicity.
Stephen Burniston is a Principal Consultant
with York Consulting Limited in Leeds. His work includes policy evaluation and
operational research, particularly in the fields of work-based learning, the
school-work transition, and the employment effects of technological change. He
is also a primary school governor.
Ellen Kemp was born in 1924 and raised in
Wapping. During the Second World War she served with the Auxiliary Territorial
Service. She died in 1998 after writing her life history.
Phil Maxwell is an East London based
photographer. His work on Docklands and the Brick Lane area of Spitalfields has
featured in various newspapers and journals. There have been several
exhibitions of his work in London galleries and a recent publication entitled
East.
Sagheer Mohammed is an undergraduate at the
University of North London, studying social research methods. He lives in
Walthamstow.
Roger Morfey works at the Research Unit in
London East TEC and has worked for TECs in London for three years. Before TECs
he worked for a national trade association, and studied local economic
development at Middlesex University. Trends East is now produced and edited by
London East TEC Research Unit |
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Tim Butler
is Reader in Sociology at the University of East London. He is currently
undertaking research into the middle class in London for the Economic and
Social Research Council. He is the editor of a forthcoming book on East London
Eastern Promise: Social Renewal and Education in London's
Docklands.
Isabelle Fremeaux is originally from Rennes
(France), where she studied and completed an MA in Communications. She has been
living in London for four years and is currently in her third year of a PhD in
Communications at London Guildhall University. Her work focuses on the notion
of community and its influence on cultural policy and urban
regeneration.
John Griffiths is Policy Adviser to the
London Enterprise Agency (LEntA) and a freelance consultant in corporate
community involvement. He was formerly Manager of the LETEC/ LDDC European
Initiative, 1995-1997. John is a resident of Tower Hamlets.
Jasbir Panesar works in the Centre for
Access, Advice and Continuing Education at the University of East London. She
has been actively involved in community work, campaign work, addressing issues
and setting up projects in reference to Black and Asian communities since the
early 1980s in London. She is a founder member of the first Black women's
housing project called 'Ebony Sisters Housing Association'. Before joining UEL
she worked at Birkbeck College.
Greg Smith lives in Newham and works for
the Aston Charities Community Involvement Unit. He is an Honorary Research
Fellow at the University of East London, Sociology Department, cites bikes,
trains and Sunday School teaching as his leisure time activities. |
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