Ruth Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett

Biography

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

• 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