Pamela Abbott | |
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Born | London | 27 June 1947
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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]
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]
CIP t.p. (Pamela Abbott, Polytechnic of the So.-West at Plymouth) data sht. (b. 6-27-47)
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