Miss Catriona Forrest

  • Lecturer (Sociological & Cultural Studies)

telephone: 0141 330 3892
email: Catriona.Forrest@glasgow.ac.uk

Glasgow University Media Group, Room 1214, University of Glasgow, 42 Bute Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RT

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088

Biography

Catriona Forrest is an award-winning Lecturer in Media and Communications, with a focus on innovation in journalism education and relationship-rich experiential learning.

Her work advances collaborative learning, peer mentorship, and real-world engagement, supporting collaborators and other stakeholders to develop ethical, critically informed media practices that extend beyond the classroom.

Catriona has a background in journalism and factual production, with decades of experience at the BBC and later as a freelancer. She is Head of Mentoring for Women in Journalism Scotland, leading a scheme which has seen over 100 up-and-coming journalists supported in their career development goals. A RET Fellow, she is a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), BAFTA and the Association for Journalism Education and is an accredited trainer with the Solutions Journalism Network.

She leads the Masters in Media, Communications and International Journalism, a programme which combines the sociology of the Glasgow University Media Group with intensive training in an ethical journalism practice. Catriona has been teaching practical journalism methods on this programme since 2019, as well as developing and delivering training on media literacy and digital skills for a range of audiences including international academic and industry partners.

Catriona leads the University of Glasgow Journalism and Factual Storytelling Education Network (JASFEN).

Through her teaching, mentoring, and programme leadership, Catriona has built and sustained communities of emerging journalists, media and journalism scholars, practitioners, and academics.

Research interests

Catriona leads innovations in journalism education which can lead to an ethical application of media skills in a changing world. Her scholarship focuses on relationship-rich pedagogies, experiential learning, with a foundation of transnational and interdisciplinary solutions-based approaches.

 

Research groups

Publications

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2026

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088 (2026) Response to Scottish Parliament's Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee in its Forthcoming Inquiry into the Broadcasting Market in Scotland [Annex B]. Documentation. Scottish Parliament.

2025

Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088, Avsar, Erdem and Fletcher, Ruth (2025) News Day at The Hunterian: A Collaborative Approach to Ethical Journalism Methods Training. 18th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 2-8 Apr 2025.

Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088 (2025) Ethical Factual Storytelling and Working with Vulnerable Groups. Media in a European and Global Context: Emotion in Journalism, Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU), Mainz, 12 June 2025.

2024

Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X and Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088 (2024) Closing the Gap: Evaluation of the UK’s Strategy to Improve Doctoral Education and Methods Training. Quality in Postgraduate Education, Adelaide, Australia, 14-16 April 2024.

2023

Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X, Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088 and Spreckelsen, Thees ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5043-2077 (2023) Editorial: Teaching research methods better? Or research methods for better teaching? Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(2), i-vii. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.71)

Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088 and Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X (2023) 'We used to be somebody': a critical consideration of plans to recapture the UK’s reputation as a world-leader in teaching research and innovation. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(2), pp. 90-110. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.72)

2022

Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088 (2022) Practical News Storytelling: An Alternative Assessment. Virtual Institute for Alternative Assessment in Higher Education: Reimagining Assessment of Student Learning for the 21st Century, 23 Nov 2022.

2017

Clark, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5700-4916, Inbadas, Hamilton ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6149-9306, Colburn, Ben ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1416-1844, Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088, Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132, Whitelaw, Sandy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2486-2508 and Zaman, Shahaduz (2017) Interventions at the end of life – a taxonomy for ‘overlapping consensus’. Wellcome Open Research, 2, 7. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.10722.1) (PMID:28261674) (PMCID:PMC5336190)

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Number of items: 9.

Articles

Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X, Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088 and Spreckelsen, Thees ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5043-2077 (2023) Editorial: Teaching research methods better? Or research methods for better teaching? Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(2), i-vii. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.71)

Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088 and Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X (2023) 'We used to be somebody': a critical consideration of plans to recapture the UK’s reputation as a world-leader in teaching research and innovation. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(2), pp. 90-110. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.72)

Clark, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5700-4916, Inbadas, Hamilton ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6149-9306, Colburn, Ben ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1416-1844, Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088, Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132, Whitelaw, Sandy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2486-2508 and Zaman, Shahaduz (2017) Interventions at the end of life – a taxonomy for ‘overlapping consensus’. Wellcome Open Research, 2, 7. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.10722.1) (PMID:28261674) (PMCID:PMC5336190)

Research Reports or Papers

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088 (2026) Response to Scottish Parliament's Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee in its Forthcoming Inquiry into the Broadcasting Market in Scotland [Annex B]. Documentation. Scottish Parliament.

Conference or Workshop Item

Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088, Avsar, Erdem and Fletcher, Ruth (2025) News Day at The Hunterian: A Collaborative Approach to Ethical Journalism Methods Training. 18th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 2-8 Apr 2025.

Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088 (2025) Ethical Factual Storytelling and Working with Vulnerable Groups. Media in a European and Global Context: Emotion in Journalism, Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU), Mainz, 12 June 2025.

Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X and Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088 (2024) Closing the Gap: Evaluation of the UK’s Strategy to Improve Doctoral Education and Methods Training. Quality in Postgraduate Education, Adelaide, Australia, 14-16 April 2024.

Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088 (2022) Practical News Storytelling: An Alternative Assessment. Virtual Institute for Alternative Assessment in Higher Education: Reimagining Assessment of Student Learning for the 21st Century, 23 Nov 2022.

Key Findings

Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088, Inbadas, Hamilton ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6149-9306, Zaman, Shahaduz and Clark, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5700-4916 Global interventions at the end of life: public engagement strategy. [Key Findings]

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Grants

International Partnership Development Fund (IPDF) award holder 2024-25

Supervision

Since 2022 Catriona has led a team of academics and media industry practitioners who supervise the Practical Journalism Project, an experiential alternative to the Sociology Dissertation open to students on the MSc Media, Communications and International Journalism (MCIJ). She has supervised over 50 practical projects.

Catriona also supervises students on the Sociology Dissertation, which is the traditional 60-credit submission for the MCIJ programme.

Teaching

Postgraduate

Teaching awards

  • Best Innovation in Teaching Methods (2025 SPS Peer Learning & Teaching Awards)
  • Best Teaching Team (2025 SPS Peer Learning & Teaching Awards - contribution)

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