Joni Lovenduski

Joni Lovenduski is Anniversary Professor of Politics (emerita) at Birkbeck College, University of London. The focus of her research is gender and political representation including party policy on women’s representation and the investigation of the gendered nature of institutions in contemporary political systems.

She is Chair of the Editorial Board of Political Quarterly and has been or is a member of the editorial boards of British Politics, The British Journal of Political Science, European Political Science, The European Political Science Review, the European Journal of Politics and Gender, French Politics, Political Studies, and Politics and Gender.

Lovenduski has extensive involvement in European research groups exploring gender and politics, including the European Consortium for Political Research, the Research Council of the European University Institute, and the Executive Committee of the UK Political Studies Association. She was a founding member of the Women and Politics Group of the UK PSA and founding convenor of the Gender and Politics Standing Group of the ECPR. She has acted as a consultant on Gender and Politics for UNECE, the European Commission and the Council of Europe and is a board member of the Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe program at VUB Brussels and a member of the Council of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at Kings College, London.