Joni Lovenduski is Anniversary Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is director of the Masters Course in Government Policy and Politics and the MPhil PhD Programme in Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck, and a member of the Research Council of the European University Institute. 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.
She has acted as
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. She is European convener of the
European Science Foundation funded Research Network on Gender and the
State.
Her published work on gender and politics includes Feminizing Politics (2005), State Feminism and Political Representation (2005), The Hansard Report on Women at the Top 2005 (with Sarah Childs and Rosie Campbell. Gender and Political Participation (2004) with Pippa Norris and Rosie Campbell; Women and European Politics (1986) Contemporary Feminist Politics (1993) (with Vicky Randall), Political Recruitment: Gender, Race and Class in the British Parliament (1995) (with Pippa Norris), and High Tide or High Time for Labour Women (1998) (with Maria Eagle MP). She was co- editor of The Politics of the Second Electorate (1981) The New Politics of Abortion (1986) Gender and Party Politics
(1993) and editor Feminism and Politics (2000) as well as many articles
and essays in edited collections on issues of Gender and Politics. Her
current research is on Gender and the State, including political
representation, European Equality Agencies and public policy debates.