Pamela Abbott Explained

Pamela Abbott
Birth Date:	1947 6, df=yes
Birth Place:	London
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]

Selected bibliography

Books

• Book: Abbott, Pamela . Women and social class . Tavistock Publications . London New York . 1987 . 9780422610001 .
• Book: Abbott . Pamela . Payne . Geoff . The social mobility of women: beyond male mobility models . Falmer Press . London England New York . 1990 . 9781850008453 .
• Book: Abbott . Pamela . Wallace . Claire . The sociology of the caring professions . Falmer Press . London New York . 1990 . 9781850008248 .
• Book: Abbott . Pamela . Wallace . Claire . An introduction to sociology: feminist perspectives . Routledge . London New York . 1990 . 9780415010368 .
• Book: Abbott . Pamela . Wallace . Claire . The family and the new right . Pluto Press . London Boulder, Colorado . 1992 . 9780745305332 .
• Book: Abbott . Pamela . Simmons . Maxine . McSherry . Robert . Evidence-informed nursing: a guide for clinical nurses . Routledge . London New York . 2002 . 9780415204972 . registration .
• Book: The Decent Society. Abbott. Pamela. Wallace. Claire. Sapsford. Roger. Routledge. 2016. 9781138909335. Abingdon.
• Book: The Arab Uprisings in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia: Social, Political and Economic Transformations. Teti. Andrea. Abbott. Pamela. Cavatorta. Francesco. Palgrave Macmillan. 2018. 9783319690438. Basingstoke.

Journal articles

• Abbott . Pamela . Haerpfer . Christian . Wallace . Claire . Women in Rwandan politics and society . . 38 . 4 . 111–125 . 10.2753/IJS0020-7659380406 . Winter 2008 . 142994312 .

External links

• Profile page: Professor Pamela Abbott, The School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen

Notes and References

1. Web site: Abbott, Pamela . Library of Congress . 4 January 2015 . CIP t.p. (Pamela Abbott, Polytechnic of the So.-West at Plymouth) data sht. (b. 6-27-47) .
2. Web site: Pamela Abbott . 4 January 2015.
3. Web site: Professor PAMELA ABBOTT Staff Profile StaffNet The University of Aberdeen. www.abdn.ac.uk. en-GB. 2018-03-22.
4. News:
   1. OurTimeNow: Improving Women's Lives in Rwanda through Education
   . Fawcett Society. 2018-03-22. en.
5. Web site: Our Team . 2023-07-25 . The University of Aberdeen . en-GB.
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. 10.1080/09540259721196.
7. Shalhoub‐Kevorkian. Nadera. 2003-01-01. Reexamining Femicide: Breaking the Silence and Crossing "Scientific" Borders. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 28. 2. 581–608. 10.1086/342590. 146450193. 0097-9740.
8. Web site: Professor Pamela Abbott featured by The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies(ISQOLS) News ArabTrans The University of Aberdeen. www.arabtrans.eu. en-GB. 2018-03-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180323154935/http://www.arabtrans.eu/news/9793/. 23 March 2018. dead.
9. Teti. Andrea. Abbott. Pamela. 2016-07-21. Arab Transformations Framework Project Paper. en. Rochester, NY. 10.2139/ssrn.2903282. 2903282.