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= Pamela Abbott = Pamela Abbott, FAcSS (born 27 June 1947) is an academic in sociology, gender and development studies. She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen, 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.

More coverage on Pamela Abbott

 * autobiography:
 * "I am also a member of the Centre for Civil Society and the Rule of Law and the New Europe Centre."
 * "I have carried out reseach in the UK, the European Union, the former Soviet Union, East Africa and the Middle East and North Africa"
 * "My work has been published in English, French, Swedish, Polish, Korean, and Chinese. "
 * interview
 * "I have been a member of ISQOLS since 2009. The first conference I attended was in Milan in that year.  I joined ISQOLS because it is a professional association dedicated to quality of life research and offers opportunities for engaging with colleagues that have cognate interests."
 * the promise and the reality:womens right in rwanda
 * Open Democracy page
 * The Conversation profile
 * interview on isis and syria
 * interview on imf and arab world
 * interview in another language

Education
Dr. Bertocci received her Bachelor of Science and Master's in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1983 and 1991, respectively. She earned her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997.

Career
In 2011, she was elected a Fellow in the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. She is a licensed Professional Engineer.

Mobility aids
Dr. Bertocci has designed and devloped an adjustable wheelchair for paraplegic dogs that is easy to build from common items, save for two harnesses that must be bought online from a dog-training supplier. She did not pursue a patent on it, and instead planned on posting the instructions on the internet, free of charges. She said, "This isn’t about making money. It’s about improving the quality of life for injured dogs and their owners.” Her wheelchair weighs about 12 pounds, costs less than $200, and can be made in one day. She presented a paper on August 16, 2008 at the Fifth International Symposium on Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy in Veterinary Medicine on how she and her students designed the wheelchair.

She and her team at the University have designed prosthetic hands that use tendon-like cords to allow users to grip items like a biological hand does. By using a 3-D printer, she says the creation cost of prosthetic limbs can be under $50 and over 30 hours for production. She points out that, although early prosthetic limb design for children was focused on looking like biological hands, there is now no need, because children are asking for limbs that look like graphics from Transformers and superheros from movies. She says that when designing limbs for children, she views it as an aid and a toy, "What kid doesn't like something that glows in the dark and has a flashlight attached it?"

Child abuse activism
Dr. Bertocci uses her expertise in mechanical engineering to promote the well-being of children. In 2007, she was awarded a $4.5 million grant for researching ways to prevent and catch child abuse. Specifically, she creates technology to distinguish the difference between accidental and intentional bodily harm against children. She and her team designed a sensing aid that is able to record potential bruising locations and impact forces that, when attached to a child surrogate or dummy in experiments, can "provide a roadmap documenting a child's exposure to impact; this information can be critical in a forensic analysis of a child's injuries."

Personal life
Dr. Gina Bertocci lives with her partner Dr. Karen Frost, who is also a professor at the University of Louisville and their Labrador, Rex.

sciences and maths

 * Moshe Elitzur, Endowed Professor: Physics and Astronomy
 * Frank Ettensohn, Professor and Jefferson Science Fellow: Sedimentary Geology
 * John Lewis, Professor Emeritus: Mathematics
 * Bing An Li, Emeritus professor: Physics and Astronomy
 * Mark Lovell, Jack and Linda Gill Professor: Chemistry (Alzheimer's)
 * Dave Moecher, Alumni Endowed Professor: Sedimentary Geology (petrotectonics, Appalchian-Caledoninan and Grenville orogens)
 * Robert Molzen, Professor Emeritus: Mathematics
 * Brian Rymond, Linda and Jack Gill Professor: biology (genetics)
 * Steven Yates, Distinguished Professor: chemistry, astronomy, physics (nuclei of atoms)

other studies

 * M. Cristina Alcalde, Marie Rich Endowed Professor: WGS and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies
 * Alan Nadel, William T. Bryan Professor: American studies and International Film Studies (post WWII studies and race theories)
 * Melynda Price, Robert E. Harding Jr. Professor: Africana and African American studies and WGS (politics of punishment and the role of law in the politics of race and ethnicity in the US and its borders)
 * Claire Renzetti, Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies of Violence Against Women (criminology and social movements)
 * Ana Rueda, John E. Keller Endowed Professor and Distinguished Professor: Hispanic studies

UofL distinguished professors

 * Stephen Hanson, distinguished professor: philosophy, medicine: bioethics
 * chris reitz, distinguished professor: curatorial
 * john gibson, distinguished professor: philosophy

Berea

 * maurice reid, distinguished professor: economics and business
 * caryn vazzana, distinguished professor: economics and business
 * r. wayne tolliver, distinguished professor: economics and business
 * monica kennison, distinguished professor: nursing
 * jay baltisberger, distinguished professor: chemistry