About

Alistair was a Research Assistant with SCCJR, and Lecturer in Sociology, at the University of Glasgow. He recently completed his PhD, entitled ‘Growing through Gangs: Young People, Social Change and Identity in Glasgow’ – an ethnographic study of a community in Glasgow’s east end, focusing on young people’s understandings, experiences, and opinions of youth ‘gangs’.  He is currently an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Hong Kong.

 Research:

Active research interests centre on: young people and youth ‘gangs’; youth violence and youth justice; cultural criminology and sociology of risk-taking; critical and theoretical criminology; criminology and social theory; children’s geographies; youth and social change; ethnography and participatory action-research.

Publications:

Fraser, A., Burman, M. and Batchelor, S. with McVie, S. (2010) Youth Violence in Scotland: A Literature Review, Edinburgh: Scottish Government.

Fraser, A. (2010) ‘Deviation from the Mean?: Cultural Representations of Glasgow since No Mean City’, in A. McNair and J. Ryder (eds.) Further from the Frontiers: Cross-currents in Irish and Scottish Studies, Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies.

Burman, M.,  Johnstone, J.,  Fraser, A. and McNeill, F. (2010) ‘Scotland’, in F. Dunkel., J. Grzywal, P. Horsfield and  I. Pruin (eds.) Justice Systems in Europe - Current Situation and Reform Developments, Mönchengladbach:  Forum Verlag Godesberg GmbH.

Ashe, S., Fraser, A. and Piacentini, T. (eds) (2009) Critical Issues in Researching Hidden Communities, Esharp, University of Glasgow.

Bannister, J. and Fraser, A. (2008) ‘Youth Gang Identification: learning and social development in restricted geographies’, Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice Studies, 14: July, 96-114

Grants:

2010: Narratives of Glasgow: Oral Histories of Youth Gangs in Easterhouse, 1965-1975 (British Academy Small Grant: £6,000) – with Angela Bartie (PI)

2010: ‘Evaluation of Early and Effective Intervention in Dumfries and Galloway’ (Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary: £18,000) – with Sarah MacQueen

2010: ‘Narratives of Glasgow: Growing Up in Easterhouse 1960-75’ (Adam Smith Research Foundation: £1,200) – with Susan Batchelor (PI) and Angela Bartie.

2010: ‘Gangs and Global Exchange’ Conference and Research Seminar (Adam Smith Research Foundation: £1,570) – with Michele Burman (PI) and Mo Hume.

2009: ‘School-to-Work Transitions amongst Hard-to-Reach Young People’ Consultancy (Skills Development Scotland: £2,500)

2009: Scholarship to University of Illinois-Chicago, United States (Mac Robertson Travelling Scholarship, £2,900)

2008: ‘Critical Issues in Research Hidden Communities’, Postgraduate Conference, University of Glasgow, October 2008 (Roberts Fund: £2,000)

Publications

	Programme Note on 'NEDS' (Bulletin)
	Gangs and Global Exchange: Confronting the Glasgow Gang Complex(Briefing Paper)
	Critical Issues in Researching Hidden Communities(Book)
	Deviation from the Mean? Cultural Representations of Glasgow Since No Mean City(Research Report)
	Youth gang identification: learning and social development in restricted geographies(Journal Article)

Projects

• Youth Gangs and Knife Carrying
• Youth Violence in Scotland