Joni Lovenduski

Joni Lovenduski is Anniversary Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2007 and was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2009. She is Chair of the Editorial Board of Political Quarterly and a member of the editorial boards of British Politics, The British Journal of Political Science and French Politics. She was Professor of Politics and Head of Department at Southampton University from 1995 to 2000. She was Vice-Chair of the European Consortium for Political Research from 2000-2003 and a member of the Research Council of the European University Institute from 2003- 2008. She has acted as a consultant on Gender and Politics for UNECE, the European Commission and the Council of Europe. She directed the European Commission funded investigation of the state of the art of research on Gender and Politics in Europe in 1996 and 1997. Until the programme was completed in 2010 she was a European convener of the European Science Foundation-funded Research Network on Gender and the State.