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Heather Joshi

CBE FBA FAcSS
Born
Heather Evelyn Spooner

(1946-04-21) 21 April 1946 (age 77)
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma materSt Hilda's College, Oxford
St Antony's College, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineEconomist
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Heather Evelyn Joshi, CBE, FBA, FAcSS (née Spooner; born 21 April 1946) is a British academic, economist, and demographer. She is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Developmental Demography at the University of London.[1] She was Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies from 2003 to 2010.[2]

Early life and education[edit]

Joshi was born on 21 April 1946 to Guy Malcolm Spooner and Molly Spooner; her parents were both biologists.[3][4] She went to school in Devon, England.[4] She studied politics, philosophy and economics at St Hilda's College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1967: as was traditional, her BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree.[3][4] She undertook postgraduate studies in economics at St Antony's College, Oxford, graduating with a Master of Letters (MLitt) degree in 1970.[3][4]

Academic career[edit]

Joshi began her career as a junior research officer at the Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford (1969 to 1973), and an economic advisor with the Government Economic Service (1973 to 1979).[3] She then joined the Centre for Population Studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), working as a research fellow (1979 to 1983) and senior research fellow (1983 to 1988).[3][4][5] She moved to the Department of Economics of Birkbeck College, London, where she was a senior research fellow from 1987/1988 to 1990.[3][5] She then returned to LSHTM where she had been appointed a senior lecturer.[3]

From 1993 to 1998, she was Professor of Social Statistics at City University London.[5] In 1994, she was appointed Deputy Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies.[1] From 2000 to 2011, she was director of the United Kingdom's Millennium Cohort Study.[6] In 2003, she was promoted to Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, and served in that role until 2010.[1] She has been a research professor at the Institute of Education of University College, London since 2016.[3]

Personal life[edit]

In 1969, she married Vijay Joshi: they divorced in 1977.[3][7] In 1982, she married for a second time to Gregory Hans David Martin. Together they had two children and step children from previous marriages.[3]

Honours[edit]

In 2000, Joshi was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[5] In the 2015 New Year Honours, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) 'for services to Longitudinal and Women's Studies'.[8]

Works[edit]

  • Joshi, Heather; Joshi, Vijay (1976). Surplus labour and the city: a study of Bombay. Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195606317.
  • Joshi, Heather, ed. (1989). The changing population of Britain. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631165156.
  • Joshi, Heather; Paci, Pierella (1998). Unequal pay for women and men: evidence from the British birth cohort studies. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262100687.
  • Davies, Hugh; Joshi, Heather (2000). The price of parenthood and the value of children. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
  • Dex, Shirley; Joshi, Heather, eds. (2005). Children of the 21st century: from birth to nine months. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 978-1861346896.
  • Scott, Jacqueline; Dex, Shirley; Joshi, Heather, eds. (2008). Women and employment changing lives and new challenges. Cheltenham, Uk: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1848442931.
  • Hansen, Kirstine; Joshi, Heather; Dex, Shirley, eds. (2010). Children of the 21st century: the first five years. Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN 978-1847424761.
  • Joshi, Heather; Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Robb, Robert Edgecombe; Burton, Jonathan; Blackaby, David H.; Humphries, Jane; Wang, Xiaobo; Dong, Xiao-yuan (July 2006). "Explorations: The Status of Women Economists". Feminist Economics. 12 (3): 427–474. doi:10.1080/13545700600669667. S2CID 154406329.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Heather Joshi - University of London". Authors. Demographic Research. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  2. ^ "Professor Heather Joshi". Professors and Speakers. Gresham College. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Joshi, Prof. Heather Evelyn. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2018. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U22530. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 24 June 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  4. ^ a b c d e "Heather Joshi: 1996 President of the European Society for Population Economics". Journal of Population Economics. 11 (2): 159. May 1998. doi:10.1007/s001480050062. JSTOR 20007576. S2CID 189938412.
  5. ^ a b c d "JOSHI, Professor Heather, CBE, OBE". British Academy Fellows. British Academy. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  6. ^ "Professor Heather Joshi". Researchers. Institute of Education, University of London. Archived from the original on 18 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  7. ^ "Vijay Ramchandra Joshi". Merton College. University of Oxford. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  8. ^ "No. 61092". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2014. pp. N8–N9.
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