People
Dod Forrest
Honorary Research Fellow
d.forrest@abdn.ac.uk
Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles
(2005) Chess Development in Aberdeen’s Primary Schools: a study of literacy and social capital. Edinburgh: Scottish Executive Education Department. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/research/research/14478/SRChess
(2005)What has Paulo Freire to say about Youth Work? Youth and Policy, Autumn, Leicester: The National Youth Agency.
(2002) Ideology, Anti-capitalism and Popular Education in Concept Vol 12, No1, 44-47.
(2001) The Trouble with Employability: why vulnerable young people are 'not ready' for employment. Research paper 6. Centre for Educational Research Aberdeen University.
(2000) Participatory Action Research: An Empowering Methodology for Work with Marginalised Young People. Scottish Youth Issues. Vol 1 No 1 pp 63-85 (with Sheila Wood)
(2000) Theorising empowerment thought: illuminating the relationship between ideology and politics in the contemporary era, Sociological Research Online, 4,4, http://www.socresonline.org.uk/4/4/forrest.html
(1999) Education and empowerment: towards untested feasibility, Community Development Journal, 34, 2: pp 93-107.Oxford University Press.
(1999) An empowering approach to working with young people, Concept, 9, 3: pp 8-16 (with Sheila Wood)
(1988) Organising to Meet the Needs of the Chinese in a West Midlands City in Community Development Journal, Vol. 23, No 3 pp 156-169 (with Lee, Yi Yun).Oxford University Press.
Reports, Monographs And Articles
(2002) Education for Citizenship in Aberdeen's Schools and Communities. A report for the Scottish Executive Education Department (with Tony Glendinning and Sheila Wood)
(2000) Education for Citizenship? Evaluating the Effectiveness of community education supported youth work in Aberdeen. Aberdeen City Council (with Sheila Wood and Tony Glendinning).
(1999) Looking Back on Anger. A study of the impact of Moray Youth Action's 16-18 Employment Initiative on the lives of vulnerable young people. Stirling: Aberlour Child Care Trust.
Moray Youth Action’s 16-18 Employment Initiative: A Social Justice Evaluation. Stirling: Aberlour Child Care Trust.
(1997) The Contested Concept of Empowerment: Between Ideology and Conscientisation Unpublished M Litt thesis. University of Aberdeen.
(1994) The Lives of Young People in Aberdeen, Aberdeen: Community Education Department, Grampian Regional Council (with L. A. Hamilton).
Grants and Awards
Grantholder on various externally funded studies including practitioner research grants from SEED, Aberdeen City Council and the voluntary sector.