Alasdair Forsyth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3878438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alasdair Forsyth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alasdair |
| FAMILY NAME | Forsyth |
| SIGNATURE | FORSYTH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
That's cool, you’re a musician and you drink”: Exploring entertainers’ accounts of their unique workplace relationship with alcohol
I'm there to play music not break up fights: Gigging Entertainers' Experiences of Alcohol-Related Misbehaviour by Audiences and Its Impact on Performance
Despite the fact that drinking and music often share a space, the relationship between alcohol-related misbehaviour and live music has received little academic attention. Music has been demonstrated to influence drinking behaviour and entertainers have been observed influencing ('soft-policing') drunken misbehaviour by audiences. However, to date research has not given voice to those providing this musical entertainment. Are they aware of the eff…
Virtually a drug scare: Mephedrone and the impact of the Internet on drug news transmission
Youth, Drugs, and Nightlife
The nature and extent of illegal drug and alcohol-related litter in Scottish social housing community: A photographic investigation
This article investigates the nature and extent of alcohol and other drug-related litter in a residential community. This was done by means of a survey of such litter conducted in the social housing ‘schemes’ of a Scottish town, piloting the use of interpretive photography to assess the threat that these pose in the community (n = 1239 pictures of such items). The survey found little evidence of hazardous illegal drug-related litter (number of se…
The use of off-trade glass as a weapon in violent assaults by Young Offenders
The socio-spatial distribution of alcohol outlets in Glasgow city
Community off-sales provision and the presence of alcohol-related detritus in residential neighbourhoods
Alco‐pop? The Use of Popular Music in Glasgow Pubs
n recent years popular music studies has witnessed a turn towards concentrating on music at a local level (Cloonan) and its use in what DeNora calls everyday life. In a separate, but overlapping, development there has been a growing interest in the night-time economy. At an academic level this has included some interest in the role popular music plays in that economy (e.g. Bennett; Bjrnberg and Stockfelt) and at the UK governmental level it has i…
Young people's awareness of illicit drug use in the family
A sample of Scottish schoolchildren aged 14–15 (N = 1240) were asked a series of questions regarding their knowledge and experience of illicit drugs. They were asked to report on personal lifetime drug use and whether they knew of any family member who had ever used drugs. More than four in ten respondents admitted to having used an illegal drug, with a similar number admitting to awareness of drug use by another family member. There was a strong…
Access to Higher Education and Disadvantaged Young People
This article will highlight the difficulties faced by qualified but disadvantaged young people in accessing higher education. This is an issue which has strong implications for education policy, economic efficiency and social justice. Over the past two decades, despite large increases in overall access to higher education, the gap in level of participation between the most affluent and most disadvantaged school‐leavers has remained intact. This a…
A design for strife: Alcopops, licit drug — familiar scare story
Distorted? a quantitative exploration of drug fatality reports in the popular press
Preferred drinking locations of Scottish adolescents
Relationships between popular music and drug use among Scottish schoolchildren
Diets for Disease? Intraurban Variation in Reported Food Consumption in Glasgow
Geographical Aspects of Scoring Illegal Drugs
Young drug users (n=210) were asked where they would go to obtain eleven categories of illicit drug. From this information it was possible to draw up spatial availability networks for each drug. There was little difference in drug use between persons resident in relatively more or less deprived areas. However, people tended to gravitate from the less towards the more deprived areas in order to obtain drugs. There was also a tendency for subjects …
The socio-spatial distribution of alcohol outlets in Glasgow city
Access to Higher Education and Disadvantaged Young People
This article will highlight the difficulties faced by qualified but disadvantaged young people in accessing higher education. This is an issue which has strong implications for education policy, economic efficiency and social justice. Over the past two decades, despite large increases in overall access to higher education, the gap in level of participation between the most affluent and most disadvantaged school‐leavers has remained intact. This a…
Diets for Disease? Intraurban Variation in Reported Food Consumption in Glasgow
Alco‐pop? The Use of Popular Music in Glasgow Pubs
n recent years popular music studies has witnessed a turn towards concentrating on music at a local level (Cloonan) and its use in what DeNora calls everyday life. In a separate, but overlapping, development there has been a growing interest in the night-time economy. At an academic level this has included some interest in the role popular music plays in that economy (e.g. Bennett; Bjrnberg and Stockfelt) and at the UK governmental level it has i…
Geographical Aspects of Scoring Illegal Drugs
Young drug users (n=210) were asked where they would go to obtain eleven categories of illicit drug. From this information it was possible to draw up spatial availability networks for each drug. There was little difference in drug use between persons resident in relatively more or less deprived areas. However, people tended to gravitate from the less towards the more deprived areas in order to obtain drugs. There was also a tendency for subjects …
Preferred drinking locations of Scottish adolescents
Community off-sales provision and the presence of alcohol-related detritus in residential neighbourhoods
The use of off-trade glass as a weapon in violent assaults by Young Offenders
Geographical Aspects of Scoring Illegal Drugs
Young drug users (n=210) were asked where they would go to obtain eleven categories of illicit drug. From this information it was possible to draw up spatial availability networks for each drug. There was little difference in drug use between persons resident in relatively more or less deprived areas. However, people tended to gravitate from the less towards the more deprived areas in order to obtain drugs. There was also a tendency for subjects …
Diets for Disease? Intraurban Variation in Reported Food Consumption in Glasgow
Relationships between popular music and drug use among Scottish schoolchildren
Preferred drinking locations of Scottish adolescents
A design for strife: Alcopops, licit drug — familiar scare story
Distorted? a quantitative exploration of drug fatality reports in the popular press
Young people's awareness of illicit drug use in the family
A sample of Scottish schoolchildren aged 14–15 (N = 1240) were asked a series of questions regarding their knowledge and experience of illicit drugs. They were asked to report on personal lifetime drug use and whether they knew of any family member who had ever used drugs. More than four in ten respondents admitted to having used an illegal drug, with a similar number admitting to awareness of drug use by another family member. There was a strong…
Access to Higher Education and Disadvantaged Young People
This article will highlight the difficulties faced by qualified but disadvantaged young people in accessing higher education. This is an issue which has strong implications for education policy, economic efficiency and social justice. Over the past two decades, despite large increases in overall access to higher education, the gap in level of participation between the most affluent and most disadvantaged school‐leavers has remained intact. This a…
Alco‐pop? The Use of Popular Music in Glasgow Pubs
n recent years popular music studies has witnessed a turn towards concentrating on music at a local level (Cloonan) and its use in what DeNora calls everyday life. In a separate, but overlapping, development there has been a growing interest in the night-time economy. At an academic level this has included some interest in the role popular music plays in that economy (e.g. Bennett; Bjrnberg and Stockfelt) and at the UK governmental level it has i…
The socio-spatial distribution of alcohol outlets in Glasgow city
Community off-sales provision and the presence of alcohol-related detritus in residential neighbourhoods
The nature and extent of illegal drug and alcohol-related litter in Scottish social housing community: A photographic investigation
This article investigates the nature and extent of alcohol and other drug-related litter in a residential community. This was done by means of a survey of such litter conducted in the social housing ‘schemes’ of a Scottish town, piloting the use of interpretive photography to assess the threat that these pose in the community (n = 1239 pictures of such items). The survey found little evidence of hazardous illegal drug-related litter (number of se…
The use of off-trade glass as a weapon in violent assaults by Young Offenders
Youth, Drugs, and Nightlife
Virtually a drug scare: Mephedrone and the impact of the Internet on drug news transmission
That's cool, you’re a musician and you drink”: Exploring entertainers’ accounts of their unique workplace relationship with alcohol
I'm there to play music not break up fights: Gigging Entertainers' Experiences of Alcohol-Related Misbehaviour by Audiences and Its Impact on Performance
Despite the fact that drinking and music often share a space, the relationship between alcohol-related misbehaviour and live music has received little academic attention. Music has been demonstrated to influence drinking behaviour and entertainers have been observed influencing ('soft-policing') drunken misbehaviour by audiences. However, to date research has not given voice to those providing this musical entertainment. Are they aware of the eff…
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