Peter Cook

Dean''s Prize: Early Car Rsrchr Dvlp Schm at Alliance Manchester Business School

Lecturer at Henley Business School

Schools

  • Henley Business School
  • Alliance Manchester Business School
  • The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management

Expertise

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Alliance Manchester Business School

Biography

Peter obtained a BSc (Hons) in Genetics from the University of York, which included an industrial year working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew London. He then undertook a PhD at the University of York focusing on how helminth infection skews immune events in the skin. After completing his PhD in 2009, he trained as a post doc at the University of Edinburgh with Andrew MacDonald investigating the impact of type-2 immunity on innate cells, particularly DCs. He relocated with the laboratory to the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research (MCCIR) in 2013 and discovered novel mechanisms that DCs utilise to drive allergic type-2 inflammation. In 2016 he was awarded the Dean’s Prize to help establish a research group to unravel why exposure to fungi in the airways causes immune cells to mediate chronic allergic inflammation.

 

Twitter: @drpetercook

Biology, Medicine and Health (BMH) Domains

Henley Business School

Peter spent a long career in the IT industry where he worked in UK and multinational organisations in both the public and private sector as a senior manager and director. Roles included Managing Director of the IT Division of British Rail, Director of Professional Services and a member of the UK executive committee of an Anglo-French IT services company, member of the UK Board, and the European IT Director of a large subsidiary of a US Multinational, COO of a start-up and non-executive director of a small company.

He returned to the University of Reading in 2003 to undertake his PhD, which examined the influence of information processing on firm structure, strategy and organisation. He now teaches at both undergraduate and master’s level.

Module convenor for Markets, Marketing & Strategy Markets.

Lecturer on Information aspects of Organisation Design and the impact of the Internet in Marketing & Consumer Society.

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