Pamela Abbott
Pamela Abbott | |
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| Born | June 27, 1947 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Sociologist, academic |
| Known for | Sociology, gender studies, development studies |
| Title | Director of the Centre for Global Development; Professor at the School of Education, University of Aberdeen |
Pamela Abbott, FAcSS (born 27 June 1947), is a British scholar with expertise in sociology, gender, and development studies. She holds the position of Director at the Centre for Global Development and serves as a Professor within the School of Education at the University of Aberdeen.
Abbott oversees the project funded by the Scottish Government titled Fostering a Social Practice Approach to Adult Literacies for Improving People’s Quality of Life in Western Rwanda. Additionally, she directs the Global Health Research Group on promoting children’s and adolescent’s mental wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa, supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
Within feminist sociology, Abbott challenges the conventional marginalization of gender issues in mainstream sociological theory, advocating for a multidisciplinary methodology to question foundational disciplinary assumptions.
Her latest investigations concentrate on quality of life and socioeconomic shifts occurring in societies experiencing transformation following the Arab Spring events.
Books
- Abbott, Pamela. Women and social class. Tavistock Publications, London New York, 1987. ISBN 9780422610001
- Abbott, Pamela; Payne, Geoff. The social mobility of women: beyond male mobility models. Falmer Press, London England New York, 1990. ISBN 9781850008453
- Abbott, Pamela; Wallace, Claire. The sociology of the caring professions. Falmer Press, London New York, 1990. ISBN 9781850008248
- Abbott, Pamela; Wallace, Claire. An introduction to sociology: feminist perspectives. Routledge, London New York, 1990. ISBN 9780415010368
- Abbott, Pamela; Wallace, Claire. The family and the new right. Pluto Press, London Boulder, Colorado, 1992. ISBN 9780745305332
- Abbott, Pamela; Simmons, Maxine; McSherry, Robert. Evidence-informed nursing: a guide for clinical nurses. Routledge, London New York, 2002. ISBN 9780415204972
- Abbott, Pamela; Wallace, Claire; Sapsford, Roger. The Decent Society. Routledge, Abingdon, 2016. ISBN 9781138909335
- Teti, Andrea; Abbott, Pamela; Cavatorta, Francesco. The Arab Uprisings in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia: Social, Political and Economic Transformations. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2018. ISBN 9783319690438
Journal articles
- Abbott, Pamela; Haerpfer, Christian; Wallace, Claire. "Women in Rwandan politics and society". International Journal of Sociology, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 111–125, Winter 2008. DOI 10.2753/IJS0020-7659380406
External links
- Profile page: Professor Pamela Abbott, The School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen