Margot Ruth Aline Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett, CBE 1999; FBA 2009
Born 3 May 1949; daughter of Dr Werner Bernard Lister and Daphne (née Carter)
Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University, since 1994
Educated University of Essex (BA Hons Sociology); University of Sussex (MA Multi-Racial Studies)
Child Poverty Action Group: Legal Res. Officer, 1971–75; Assistant Director, 1975–77; Deputy Director 1977–79; Director 1979–87; Professor of Applied Social Studies, University of Bradford, 1987–93. Donald Dewar Visiting Professor of Social Justice, University of Glasgow, 2005–06. 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. Eleanor Rathbone Memorial Lecture, University of Leeds, 1989. Founding Academician, Academy of Social Sciences, 1999. Hon. LLD Manchester, 1987
Appointed to the House of Lords as Baroness Lister of Burtersett, of Nottingham in the County of Nottinghamshire
Supplementary Benefit Rights, 1974; Welfare Benefits, 1981; The Exclusive Society, 1990; Women’s Economic Dependency and Social Security, 1992; Citizenship: feminist perspectives, 1997, 2nd edn 2003; Poverty, 2004; (jtly) Gendering Citizenship in Western Europe, 2007; (co-ed) Why Money Matters, 2008; Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy, 2010; pamphlets, articles, and contributions to many books on poverty, social security and women’s citizenship