Patricia Kingori
Patricia Kingori
Patricia Kingori is a British Kenyan sociologist who is a Wellcome Senior Investigator and Professor at the University of Oxford. Her research considers the experiences of frontline health workers around the world. She is particularly interested in misinformation and pseudoscience. In 2015, Kingori was included on the Powerlist.
"I didn’t want to just launch into something and reinvent the wheel, I wanted to find out some of the issues they had, so that I could try and set my project up in the best possible way. That’s been really helpful and people were really generous with their time."
"I left friends and colleagues behind, not sure whether they were going to be OK. I didn’t want to leave, I didn’t believe what I was seeing. I didn’t ever think that I would see dead people in the streets, or face threats of physical violence. It was a very, very dark time."
"Attitudes are changing, but there are still pockets in academia that definitely see having children and a successful career as incompatible."
"I think academia is just still very conservative in the way that people are hired and promoted."
"We can try and manage our own careers, but it’s very different to trying to manage other people’s."
"This is an exciting time, and that’s what gives me energy. "I’m really happy that I’ve stuck with sociology. I love what I do and I have done since I was 14 years old and I picked up my first sociology book. The idea that I can do this for a living is just so wild."
