Ruth Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett
Margot Ruth Aline Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett, CBE FAcSS (born 3 May 1949[1]) is currently Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University. She has written or contributed to a number of books, pamphlets and articles on poverty, social security and women’s citizenship.
She was born to Dr Werner Bernard and Daphne (née Carter) Lister. She attended a private school and then the University of Essex, from which she graduated with a BA in sociology, and continued to an MA in multi-racial studies from the University of Sussex. She has also received honorary doctorates from the universities of Manchester (1987), Essex (2012) and Glasgow Caledonian University.[2][3] After completing her MA she went to work for the Child Poverty Action Group.[4]
She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1999 Birthday Honours[5] and in 2009 she became a Fellow of the British Academy. She was appointed to the House of Lords as a Life Peer on 31 January 2011 as Baroness Lister of Burtersett, of Nottingham in the County of Nottinghamshire[6] (Burtersett being the village her mother originated from). She sits as a member of the Labour Party.[7]
Employment history
Child Poverty Action Group
- Legal Res. Officer, 1971–75
- Assistant Director, 1975–77
- Deputy Director 1977–79
- Director 1979–87
As a professor
- Professor of Applied Social Studies, University of Bradford, 1987–93
- Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University, 1994 onwards
- Donald Dewar Visiting Professor of Social Justice, University of Glasgow, 2005–06
Miscellaneous
- Vice-Chair, NCVO, 1991–93
- Member: Opsahl Commission, 1992–93
- Commission for Social Justice, 1992–94
- Commission on Poverty, Participation and Power, 1999–2000
- Fabian Commission on Life Chances and Child Poverty, 2004–06
- National Equality Panel, 2008–10
- The Eleanor Rathbone Memorial Lecture, University of Leeds, 1989
- Founding Academician, Academy of Social Sciences, 1999
Publications
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- Supplementary Benefit Rights, 1974
- Welfare Benefits, 1981
- The Exclusive Society, 1990
- Women’s Economic Dependency and Social Security, 1992
- Citizenship: feminist perspectives, 1997, 2nd edition 2003
- Poverty, 2004
- Gendering Citizenship in Western Europe, 2007
- Co-editor of Why Money Matters, 2008
- Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy, 2010
References
- ↑ "Baroness Lister of Burtersett". BBC Democracy. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
- ↑ http://www.essex.ac.uk/events/event.aspx?e_id=4262
- ↑ Who's Who 2011
- ↑ A speech presented by the Baroness Lister upon her honorary doctorate from the University of Essex on 18 July 2012.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 55513. p. 9. 12 June 1999.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 59689. p. 1849. 3 February 2011.
- ↑ http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/margot-aline/90403