Pamela Abbott,

FAcSS The Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) is an award granted by the Academy of Social Sciences to leading academics, policy-makers, and practitioners of the social sciences. Fellows were previously known as Academicians and used the ...

(born 27 June 1947) is a British 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 , mottoeng = The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom , established = , type = Public research universityAncient university , endowment = £58.4 million (2021) , budget ...

, and Director of the Centre for Global Development. 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''. In her writings on feminist perspectives in sociology, Abbott challenges a limited consideration of gender issues within mainstream sociology, and advocates a reconceputialisation and interdisciplinary approach in order to question fundamental assumptions in the discipline. Abbott's recent research interests focus on quality of life and socioeconomic transitions in societies experiencing transformations following the

Arab Spring The Arab Spring ( ar, الربيع العربي) was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in Tunisia in response to corruption and econo ...

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The School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen British sociologists 1947 births Academics of the University of Aberdeen Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Living people British women sociologists {{UK-sociologist-stub