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Professor FORREST, Ray

MSocSc Birmingham, PhD Bristol
Chair Professor of Housing and Urban Studies

Chair Professor / Head

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Contact Information

Office: AC1-B7317
Phone: +852 3442 7308
Fax: +852 3442 0413
Email: safray@cityu.edu.hk
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Research Interests

  • Urban political economy
  • Socio-spatial change in the contemporary city
  • Housing markets and the macro economy
  • Housing and social policy
  • The family and social change
Ray Forrest has had a long association with City University. He was previously Visiting Professor (1999-2001) and Adjunct Professor (2001-2008). He has worked at the University of Birmingham (UK) and the University of Bristol, where he was appointed to a Chair in Urban Studies in 1994. At Bristol he was Head of the School for Policy Studies (2001-2004), Associate Director/Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies (2004-2008) and co-director of the ESRC Centre for Neighbourhood Research (2001-2005). He has also held visiting appointments at the Universities of Hong Kong and Glasgow. He is co-editor of Housing Studies and Asian Public Policy. He is an elected Academician of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and Professor Emeritus at Bristol.

For more details of Ray Forrest's work
Ray Forrest - Google Scholar Citations

Recent publications

Ray Forrest and Yip Ngai-Ming (Eds.) (2012) Young People and Housing: Transitions, Trajectories and Generational Fractures, London: Routledge.

Ray Forrest and Misa Izuhara (2012), 'The Shaping of Housing Histories in Shanghai' Housing Studies 27,1, 27-44.
Misa Izuhara and Ray Forrest (2012) 'Housing Histories and Intergenerational Dynamics in Tokyo' Social Science Japan Journal 15,1, 53-74.

Ray Forrest and Yip Ngai-Ming (2011) (Eds.) Housing Markets and the Global Financial Crisis-The Uneven Impact on Households, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Fung, K,K. and Forrest, R. (2011) 'Securitisation and Residential Capitalisms in an East Asian Context' Housing Studies 26,7-8, 1231-1249.

Ray Forrest (2010) ‘Residence Through Revolution and Reform’ in Bridge,G. and Watson,S. (Eds.) The New Companion to the City Oxford: Blackwell.

Ray Forrest and Yosuke Hirayama (2009) 'The uneven impact of Neo-liberalism on housing opportunities' International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33,4,998-1013.

Ray Forrest and Misa Izuhara (2009)'Exploring the demographic location of housing wealth in East Asian Societies' Asian Public Policy,2,2,1-13.

Teaching interests

  • Urban sociology
  • Urban political economy
  • Cities and public policy
  • Global Social Policy
  • Housing studies