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 t ...

(born 27 June 1947) is an English academic in

sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

gender Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...

and

development studies Development studies is an interdisciplinary branch of social science. Development studies is offered as a specialized master's degree in a number of reputed universities around the world. It has grown in popularity as a subject of study since the ...

. She is Director of the Centre for Global Development and Professor in the School of Education at the

University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; ) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bis ...

, 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''. 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 The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is the British government's major funder of clinical, public health, social care and translational research. With a budget of over £1.2 billion in 2020–21, its mission is to "impr ...

. 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 Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several fields such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, economi ...

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 () was a series of Nonviolent resistance, anti-government protests, Rebellion, uprisings, and Insurgency, armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began Tunisian revolution, in Tunisia ...

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Profile page: Professor Pamela Abbott
The School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen {{DEFAULTSORT:Abbott, Pamela British sociologists 1947 births Academics of the University of Aberdeen Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Living people British women sociologists