Pamela Abbott

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Pamela Abbott
Born (1947-06-27) 27 June 1947 (age 77)
London
Academic work
Main interests Sociology

Pamela Abbott, FAcSS (born 27 June 1947) [1] is an English academic in sociology, gender and development studies. She is Director of the Centre for Global Development and Professor in the School of Education at the University of Aberdeen, [2] and Director of the Centre for Global Development. [3]

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Abbott leads the Scottish Government-funded research project Fostering a Social Practice Approach to Adult Literacies for Improving People’s Quality of Life in Western Rwanda. [4] She also leads the Global Health Research Group on promoting children’s and adolescent’s mental wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa, a project funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research. [5]

In her writings on feminist perspectives in sociology, Abbott challenges a limited consideration of gender issues within mainstream sociology, [6] and advocates a reconceputialisation and interdisciplinary approach in order to question fundamental assumptions in the discipline. [7]

Abbott's recent research interests focus on quality of life and socioeconomic transitions [8] in societies experiencing transformations following the Arab Spring. [9]

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References

  1. "Abbott, Pamela". Library of Congress. Retrieved 4 January 2015. CIP t.p. (Pamela Abbott, Polytechnic of the So.-West at Plymouth) data sht. (b. 6-27-47)
  2. "Pamela Abbott" . Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  3. "Professor PAMELA ABBOTT | Staff Profile | StaffNet | The University of Aberdeen". www.abdn.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  4. "#OurTimeNow: Improving Women's Lives in Rwanda through Education". Fawcett Society. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  5. "Our Team". The University of Aberdeen. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  6. Jackson, Sue (1997). "Crossing borders and changing pedagogies: From Giroux and Freire to feminist theories of education". Gender and Education. 9 (4): 457–467. doi:10.1080/09540259721196.
  7. Shalhoub‐Kevorkian, Nadera (1 January 2003). "Reexamining Femicide: Breaking the Silence and Crossing "Scientific" Borders". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 28 (2): 581–608. doi:10.1086/342590. ISSN   0097-9740. S2CID   146450193.
  8. "Professor Pamela Abbott featured by The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies(ISQOLS) | News | ArabTrans | The University of Aberdeen". www.arabtrans.eu. Archived from the original on 23 March 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  9. Teti, Andrea; Abbott, Pamela (21 July 2016). "Arab Transformations Framework Project Paper". SSRN   2903282.