Jacqueline Burgoyne
British sociologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jacqueline Lesley Burgoyne was a British sociologist and academic who specialised in family life. Career Jacqueline Burgoyne was born in Worcester on 10 September 1944 and schooled at Bristol. She enrolled at the University of Sheffield in 1963 and completed a sociology degree, before qualifying as a teacher in Bath and then returning to Sheffield to work on a project which would lead to her first book, Books and Reading , the result of a collaboration with Peter H. Mann; after its completion, she worked as a teacher and then in 1971 joined Sheffield City College of Education as a lecturer. She was a founding editor of Polity Press's Family Life series of books and, in 1987, she was appointed to the Economic and Social Research Council's Behaviour and Human Development Group and in the same year was appointed to the editorial board of the journal Sociology. Burgoyne remained at Sheffield Polytechnic for the rest of her academic career, before dying of ovarian cancer on 10 January 1988. She was the dedicatee of a posthumous festschrift edited by David Clark: Marriage, Domestic Life and Social Change . After her death, Sheffield Polytechnic founded a memorial collection in their library for Burgoyne, and established an annual memorial lecture series.
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