We are honoured to announce that Professor Joni Lovenduski has accepted to give the plenary lecture at the annual Politicologenetmaal entitled ‘Does feminism need Political Science?’ (Thursday 2 June 2016).

Joni Lovenduski is Anniversary Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London where she has worked since 2000. 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 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. Currently she is one of the three convers of the international Gender Equality in Practice Project.  In 2007 she won the Political Studies Association Special Recognition Award for her contribution to political studies.  In 2009 she won the Gender and Politics Award of the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics. In 2013 she received the UK Political Studies
Association’s Sir Isaiah Berlin prize for lifetime achievement in political studies.

Her published work on gender and politics includes Gendering Politics, Feminizing Political Science (2015)  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 collection. Her current research is on political representation, parliament and gender  equality policy.

Read more on the Etmaal in the 2016 brochure: Brochure Etmaal 2016