School of Social and Political Science

Ewan Forrest

PhD Student

Portrait image of Ewan Forrest looking towards the camera.
Ewan.Forrest@ed.ac.uk

Research interests

Elections, public opinion and parties Governance & Democracy Nationalism and political action Politics and political violence

I am interested in the Sociology of protest movements, particularly in the context of South Korea and other recent democracies. My research focuses on the 1980s Minjung Democratisation movement and its legacies for the contemporary South Korean left.

Background

First Year PhD Student

MA (Hons) Sociology, The University of Edinburgh - 2020

MSc Political Sociology, The London School of Economics - 2022

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