Awards for Birkbeck Professors
11 March 2009
Awards for Birkbeck Professors
Professor Joni Lovenduski, from the School of Politics and Sociology, and Professor Jonathan Smith, from the School of Psychology, have been elected to the Academy of Social Sciences.
The Academy's mission is to promote social sciences in the UK for the public benefit. Prof Lovenduski has been recognised for her contribution to the study of politics in the UK and follows her election as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2007. Prof Smith is known for his research to develop a new qualitative approach, known as Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, which has been applied to a range of areas in health, social and clinical psychology.
