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Patricia Kingori is a British Kenyan sociologist who is a professor at the University of Oxford. Her research considers the experiences of frontline health workers around the world.

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Attitudes are changing, but there are still pockets in academia that definitely see having children and a successful career as incompatible.

We can try and manage our own careers, but it’s very different to trying to manage other people’s.

You find yourself wondering what makes a society work and why this society is different to another one.

I think academia is just still very conservative in the way that people are hired and promoted.

It really matters that you work with people who have the same values as you, and who are genuinely interested in creating a good working environment.

Everything started to feel like it was falling apart. Kenya was the main location for my PhD and it didn’t look like I was going to be able to go back safely.

My time away on maternity leave had really been seen as writing me off. ‘That’s it now, we might never see her again,’ that kind of attitude. I found that very difficult.

I was going into people’s houses where there were really challenging social problems. Those kinds of challenges really made me question the data I was collecting and why.

The wheels came off completely. I felt like I had to start from scratch.

It was a huge leap up,but I didn’t think about it too much because I would find a way to talk myself out of doing it.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Patricia Kingori (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.