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Qualifications

• MA (University of Cambridge)
• MA (University of Nottingham)
• PhD (University of Bristol)

Research interests

My main research interests are in gender and development, especially childbearing, women's reproductive rights, social demography in South Asia; Indian society, gender and communal politics, education and the reproduction of inequality; race and ethnicity.

I have been involved in several research projects recently:

(a) An ESRC funded project on secondary schooling in north India, with Professor Roger Jeffery and Dr Craig Jeffrey: see http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/upproject/index.html.

(b) A Wellcome Trust funded project "Demographic change in north India" to re-visit villages in rural Uttar Pradesh, north India where I first worked in 1982 with Professor Roger Jeffery.

(c) RECOUP, a Research Programme Consortium, funded by DfID and led by Professor Chris Colclough (University of Cambridge) on Educational Outcomes and Poverty in India, Pakistan, Kenya and Ghana (2005-10). Other Edinburgh partners are Professor Roger Jeffery, and Professor Emeritus Kenneth King.

(d) Tracing Pharmaceuticals in South Asia, funded by a grant from the DFID/ESRC Joint Programme of research on international development issues. Other Edinburgh participants are Professor Roger Jeffery, Dr Ian Harper, Dr Stefan Ecks and Professor Allyson Pollock

(e) Learning at the Swami's Feet: Hindu Youth and faith-based educational institutions in South India,  with Dr. Aya Ikegame, under the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Research Programme

(f) British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship and Leverhulme Research Fellowship (September 2009-August 2010) 

(g) Rural change and Anthropological Knowledge in post-colonial India: A Comparative 'restudy' of F.G. Bailey, Adrian C. Mayer and David F. Pocock, funded by ESRC (2011-2014), Principal Investigator Dr Edward Simpson (SOAS), Co-investigator Patricia Jeffery

Books and first-authored publications since 2001

Books

2008: Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: Degrees without Freedom? Education, Masculinities and Unemployment in north India (Stanford University Press, Stanford) ISBN-10: 0-8047-5743-7 (Hb) ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-5743-0 (Pb)

2006: Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: Confronting Saffron Demography: Religion, fertility and women's status in India (Three Essays Collective, New Delhi), x + 162 pp. ISBN 81-88789-38-0 (Hb) and 81-88789-40-2 (Pb) publisher's note

2005: Radhika Chopra and Patricia Jeffery (eds): Educational Regimes in Contemporary India (Sage, New Delhi), 346 pp. ISBN: 0-7619-3348-4 (Hb)/0-7619-3349-2 (Pb) publisher's note.

Articles and chapters

2011: Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: "Underserved and Overdosed? Muslims and the Pulse Polio Initiative in rural north India" Contemporary South Asia 19 (2): 117-135

2010: Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: "'Only when the boat has started sinking': a maternal death in rural north India", Social Science and Medicine  71 (10): 1711-1718

2010: Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: "Polio in North India: What Next?" Economic and Political Weekly 45 (15): 23-26

2010:Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: “‘Money itself discriminates’: Obstetric emergencies in the time of liberalisation” In Akhil Gupta & K. Sivaramakrishnan (Eds.), The State in India after Liberalization: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge.

2010: Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: “Costly Absences, Coercive Presences: Health Care in Rural North India” In Anthony F. Heath & Roger Jeffery (eds) Change and Diversity: Economics, Politics and Society in Contemporary India (Proceedings of the British Academy, no. 159) (pp 47-71) Oxford: OUP.

2008: Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey: “Disputing Contraception: Muslim reform, secular change and fertility”, in Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella (eds): Special volume of Modern Asian Studies (based on papers presented at SOAS workshop on Islamic Reform, May 2005)

2008: Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: “‘Money itself discriminates’: Obstetric emergencies in the time of liberalisation”, Contributions to Indian Sociology 42, 1: 61-93

2008: Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey: “Aisha, the madrasah teacher”, in Mukulika Banerjee (ed.): Muslim Portraits (Yoda Press, New Delhi & Hurst & Columbia University Press)

2007: Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey: “Investing in the Future: Education in the Social and Cultural Reproduction of Muslims in UP”, pp.63-89 in Mushirul Hasan (ed.): Living with Secularism: The Destiny of India's Muslims (Manohar, New Delhi )

2007: Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey: “From Sir Syed to Sachar: Muslims and Education in rural Bijnor”, Indian Journal of Secularism, 11, 2: 1-35

2007: Patricia Jeffery, Abhijit Das, Jashodhara Dasgupta & Roger Jeffery: “Unmonitored Intrapartum Oxytocin use in Home Deliveries: Evidence from Uttar Pradesh, India”, Reproductive Health Matters 15, 30: 172-178

2006: Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey: “The First Madrasa: Learned Mawlawis and the Educated Mother” pp. 227-51 in Jan-Peter Hartung and Helmut Reifeld (eds) Islamic Education, Diversity and National Identity: Dini Madaris in India Post 9/11 (Sage: New Delhi) publisher's note

2005: Patricia Jeffery: “Introduction: Hearts, minds and pockets”, pp. 13-38 in Radhika Chopra and Patricia Jeffery (eds): Educational Regimes in Contemporary India (Sage, New Delhi)

2005: Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey: “The Mother's Lap and the Civilising Mission: Madrasah Education and rural Muslim girls in western Uttar Pradesh”, pp. 108- 148 in Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon (eds): In a Minority: Essays on Muslim Women in India (Oxford University Press, New Delhi and Rutgers University Press, New Jersey) publisher's note

2004: Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey: “Islamisation, Gentrification and Domestication: ‘A Girls' Islamic Course' and rural Muslims in western Uttar Pradesh”, Modern Asian Studies, 38, 1: 1-54.

2002: Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: "A Population out of Control? Myths about Muslim Fertility in Contemporary India", World Development, 30:10, pp.1805-1822.

2001: Patricia Jeffery: “A Uniform Customary Code? Marital breakdown and women's economic entitlements in western UP”, Contributions to Indian Sociology, 35:1, pp.1-32.

PhD in South Asian Studies; PhD in Sociology