Eleanor Nesbitt (b.1951) is a British emeritus professor in Education Studies at the University of Warwick, and a founding member of the UK's Punjab Research Group and the Journal of Sikh and Punjab Studies as well as coediting Brill's Encyclopedia of Sikhism.
[4][5] She attended Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth before studying classics and theology at Girton College, Cambridge.
[4][6] After returning to England in 1977 she spent two years teaching in a comprehensive school in Coventry, and subsequently carried out research in Nottingham.
[8] Her 1993 book titled Hindu children in Britain co-authored with Robert Jackson, is considered by several scholars in religious studies, including Dermot Killingley, as important in that field.
[6][17] Nesbitt, Eleanor, (2015) '"The Fools Argue about Flesh and Meat" Sikhism and Vegetarianism', Religions of South Asia, 9, 1, 81-101.