Phil is Editor-at-large of Livingmaps Review and the co-founder and research director of the Livingmaps Network. He is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London. Phil started using mapping methods in the 1980's working with young people in East London about their sense of place, identity and belonging. His many publications include Knuckle Sandwich: Growing up in the Working Class City (1978), Rethinking the Youth Question (1990), London's Turning: the making of Thames Gateway (2006) Finding the Way Home: Young People's Perceptions of class, race and gender in London and Hamburg (2007), On the Wrong Side of the Track: East London and the Post-Olympics (2013), London 2012 and the Post Olympic City (2017), Archive That, Comrade: Left Legacies and the counter culture of remembrance (2018) and Waypoints: towards an ecology of political mindfulness (2019). Further information can be found at: www.philcohenworks.com
