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词条 Ruth Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett
释义

  1. Biography

  2. Employment history

     Child Poverty Action Group  As a professor  Miscellaneous 

  3. Publications

  4. References

  5. External links

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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.

Biography

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 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

1. ^{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/representatives/profiles/90403.stm|title=Baroness Lister of Burtersett|publisher=BBC Democracy|accessdate=2 May 2013}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.essex.ac.uk/events/event.aspx?e_id=4262 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-07-26 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829115609/http://www.essex.ac.uk/events/event.aspx?e_id=4262 |archivedate=29 August 2012 |df=dmy-all }}
3. ^Who's Who 2011
4. ^A speech presented by the Baroness Lister upon her honorary doctorate from the University of Essex on 18 July 2012.
5. ^{{London Gazette |issue=55513 |date=12 June 1999 |page=9 |supp=y}}
6. ^{{London Gazette |issue=59689 |date=3 February 2011 |page=1849}}
7. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20111121203437/http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/margot-aline/90403 ]

External links

  • Debretts profile
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7 : Living people|1949 births|Female life peers|Labour Party (UK) life peers|Academics of Loughborough University|Commanders of the Order of the British Empire|Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences

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