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Ray Forrest - MSocSci, PhD
Ray Forrest is Professor of Urban Studies in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. He is also Associate-director of the recently established Centre for East Asian Studies. Ray is co-director (with Professor Ade Kearns, University of Glasgow) of the ESRC Centre for Neighbourhood Research. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also a founding member of the Asia Pacific Network of Housing Researchers. Ray's research and teaching interests include public and social policy, the sociology of housing, the interaction between housing and the macro-economy, neighbourhood change and the political economy of cities.

In addition to the work associated with the Centre for Neighbourhood Research, Ray is currently carrying out research on the impact of housing reforms in China and Vietnam and completing a book on Cohesion and Community in Contemporary Hong Kong (with Adrienne La Grange and Yip Ngai-ming). He is also developing new research on neighbourhood change in European cities and on globalisation and housing markets.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Forrest, R & Yip, Ngai-Ming( 2006 forthcoming) 'Neighbourhood and Neighbouring in Contemporary Guangzhou' Journal of Contemporary China.

Forest, R (2004) 'Shelter and Inequality' in Kennett,P. (Ed.) Handbook of Comparative Social Policy London: Edward Elgar

Forrest, R and Lee, J (2003) Housing and Social Change-East/West Perspectives London: Routledge

Forrest,RS. Yip,N. and La Grange, A. (2002) 'Neighbourhood in a High Density, High Rise City: Some Observations on Hong Kong', Sociological Review 50 (2) pp 215-240

Forrest, R. and Kearns, A. (2001)'Social cohesion, social capital and the neighbourhood', Urban Studies, November, Vol 38,No 12.

Kearns, A. and Forrest, R. (2000) 'Social cohesion and multi-level urban governance', Urban Studies, vol 37, nos 5-6, pp 995-1017.
Ray Forrest