Heather Evelyn Joshi, CBE, FBA (born 1946) is a British academic, economist, and demographer. She is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Developmental Demography at the University of London. She was Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies from 2003 to 2010.
From 1993 to 1998, she was Professor of Social Statistics at City University London. In 1994, she was appointed Deputy Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies. From 2000 to 2011, she was director of the United Kingdom's Millennium Cohort Study. In 2003, she was promoted to Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, and served in that role until 2010.
In 2000, Joshi was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). 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'.
Joshi, Heather; Joshi, Vijay (1976). Surplus labour and the city: a study of Bombay. Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195606310.
Joshi, Heather, ed. (1989). The changing population of Britain. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0631165150.
Joshi, Heather; Paci, Pierella (1998). Unequal pay for women and men: evidence from the British birth cohort studies. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 0262100681.
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 1861346891.
Scott, Jacqueline; Dex, Shirley; Joshi, Heather, eds. (2008). Women and employment changing lives and new challenges. Cheltenham, Uk: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 1848442939.
Hansen, Kirstine; Joshi, Heather; Dex, Shirley, eds. (2010). Children of the 21st century: the first five years. Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN 1847424767.
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. Taylor and Francis. 12 (3): 427–474. doi:10.1080/13545700600669667.
