Jacqueline Burgoyne

Jacqueline Lesley Burgoyne (10 September 1944 – 10 January 1988) 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 (1969), 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 (later Sheffield City Polytechnic and later still Sheffield Hallam University) 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.

Research Burgoyne's sociological research began with a study of books and reading, before moving on to families, divorce and remarriage. As David Clark, who collaborated with Burgoyne on the project, later recalled: "It was these issues which constituted the main agenda for [her] intellectual interests and which constantly brought her back to key themes: public/private, structure/process, outer/inner, biography/history".

Selected publications (Co-authored with Peter H. Mann) Books and Reading (Andre Deutsch, 1969). What Are We Doing to The Children? (BBC Publications, 1982). (Co-authored with David Clark) Making a Go of It: A Study of Step-Families in Sheffield (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984). Breaking Even: Divorce, Your Children and You (Penguin, 1984). (Co-authored with Sir Roger Ormrod and Martin Richards) Divorce Matters (Penguin, 1987).