Politics Prize for Professor

Professor Joni Lovenduski has been awarded the Gender and Politics Award by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Gender and Politics. This is the first time the Standing Group has made such an award, and recognises Professor Lovenduski's contribution to the scientific advancement of the field and the development of a scholarly network for gender and politics.

Professor Lovenduski's nominators highlighted her "pioneering research on the representation of women in politics and public life and her long-standing contribution to women and politics within the ECPR. Her work has led to a raft of well-regarded academic and policy-oriented publications: Professor Lovenduski's research has altered perceptions of the problem of women's under-representation and obliged political parties to take measures to confront the issue of women's legislative recruitment. Her work has also led to important inputs to debates on these issues at the European level, through her role as consultant to the European Commission and the Council of Europe. As one of the first generation of gender and politics scholars in the UK, Professor Lovenduski has acted as a mentor and inspiration for subsequent generations, not least through her own research, but also as one of the founders of the PSA Women and Politics Specialist group, the founder of the Standing Group on Women and Politics of the European Consortium for Political Research and, at the individual level, in actively encouraging and supporting younger researchers."

The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) is an independent, scholarly association, established in 1970. It supports and encourages the training, research and cross-national co-operation of political scientists throughout Europe and beyond. It currently has nearly 350 European institutional members and associate members in over 40 countries. These members together form a network of thousands of individual political scientists, international relations and European studies specialists.

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