Background
She was born to Doctor Werner Bernard and Daphne (née Carter) Lister.
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professor Member of the House of Lords
She was born to Doctor Werner Bernard and Daphne (née Carter) Lister.
She attended a private school and then the University of Essex, from which she graduated with a Bachelor in sociology, and continued to an Master of Arts in multi-racial studies from the University of Sussex.
She has written or contributed to a number of books, pamphlets and articles on poverty, social security and women's citizenship. She has also received honorary doctorates from the universities of Manchester (1987), Essex (2012) and Glasgow Caledonian University. After completing her Master of Arts she went to work for the Child Poverty Action Group.
She was appointed Commander of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1999 Birthday Honours and in 2009 she became a Fellow of the British Academy.
She was appointed to the House of Lords as a Life Peer on 31 January 2011 as Baroness Lister of Burtersett, of Nottingham in the County of Nottinghamshire (Burtersett being the village her mother originated from). Child Poverty Action Group
Legal Reserve
Officer, 1971-1975
Assistant Director, 1975-1977
Deputy Director 1977-1979
Director 1979-1987
As a professor
Professor of Applied Social Studies, University of Bradford, 1987-1993
Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University, 1994 onwards
Donald Dewar Visiting Professor of Social Justice, University of Glasgow, 2005-2006
Miscellaneous
Vice-Chair, NCVO, 1991-1993
Member: Opsahl Commission, 1992-1993
Commission for Social Justice, 1992-1994
Commission on Poverty, Participation and Power, 1999–2000
National Equality Panel, 2008-2010
The Eleanor Rathbone Memorial Lecture, University of Leeds, 1989
Founding Academician, Academy of Social Sciences, 1999.
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She sits as a member of the Labour Party.