Patricia Jeffrey

Patricia is an emerita Professor of Sociology. She studied undergraduate Social Anthropology at Cambridge, masters in Sociology (on race relations) at Nottingham, and doctoral work at Bristol (for work on Pakistani heritage families in Bristol); taught in Edinburgh between 1972 and 2005, briefly in Social Anthropology and since after 1978 in Sociology, with main teaching in the fields of gender, gender and development, development studies and South Asian Studies. She has acted as peer reviewer for a wide range of journals and book publishers. She has been a consultant on several World Bank and ODA population and maternal and child health projects in India and Pakistan, and on the Technical Advisory Group for the PATH Oxytocin Initiative and acted as expert witness on behalf of immigration and asylum appellants in UK. Current and notable research projects/ publications: I am completing two book manuscripts for Routledge, Contextualising Demographic Transition: Child Survival and Fertility in a Muslim village in north India and Improvised Livelihoods: rural Muslims in north India and the fragile intergenerational contract that examine different aspects of social, economic and demographic change in a village where I have worked since the early 1980s.