Glasgow lecturer is BBC New Generation Thinker

University of Glasgow academic Dr Alistair Fraser has today been named as a New Generation Thinker by the BBC. Dr Fraser, a criminologist at the University of Glasgow, whose expertise focuses on youth culture and street gangs, has been selected by the BBC for the prestigious New Generation Thinkers list, featuring nine other UK academics. Dr Fraser has studied youth gangs in Hong Kong, Glasgow and Chicago. He will begin working with the BBC to turn his research into radio and television programmes across several output channels. The scheme will partner with BBC Four, where some of the selected academics will also be given the opportunity to present a full length programme for television. Other specialist research areas, which the New Generation Thinkers will turn into future programme ideas and documentaries include Shakespeare in the Middle East, Children in War and Surveillance and how music might be used for its health benefits and the ethics of population change. The selected academics will be publicly unveiled at a free event recorded as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead, March 18, and broadcast on the April 4.