The Right Honourable The Baroness Lister of Burtersett CBE FBA FAcSS
Official portrait, 2022
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 February 2011 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	(1949-05-03) 3 May 1949 (age 74)
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	University of Essex

Margot Ruth Aline Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett, CBE, FBA, FAcSS (born 3 May 1949^[1]), is currently Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University. She has written or contributed to a number of books, pamphlets and articles on poverty, social security and women's citizenship.

Biography

She was born to Dr Werner Bernard and Daphne (née Carter) Lister. She attended a private school and then the University of Essex, from which she graduated with a BA in sociology, and continued to an MA in multi-racial studies from the University of Sussex. She has also received honorary doctorates from the Caledonian University.^[2][3] After completing her MA, she worked for the Child Poverty Action Group.^[4]

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1999 Birthday Honours^[5] and, in 2009, 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^[6] (Burtersett being the village her mother originated from). She sits as a member of the Labour Party.^[7]

Employment history

Child Poverty Action Group

• Legal Res. Officer, 1971–75
• Assistant Director, 1975–77
• Deputy Director 1977–79
• Director 1979–87

As a professor

• Professor of Applied Social Studies, University of Bradford, 1987–93
• Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University, 1994 onwards
• Donald Dewar Visiting Professor of Social Justice, University of Glasgow, 2005–06

Miscellaneous

• Vice-Chair, NCVO, 1991–93
• Member: Opsahl Commission, 1992–93
• Commission for Social Justice, 1992–94
• Commission on Poverty, Participation and Power, 1999–2000
• Fabian Commission on Life Chances and Child Poverty, 2004–06
• National Equality Panel, 2008–10
• The Eleanor Rathbone Memorial Lecture, University of Leeds, 1989
• Founding Academician, Academy of Social Sciences, 1999

Publications

• Supplementary Benefit Rights, 1974
• Welfare Benefits, 1981
• The Exclusive Society, 1990
• Women's Economic Dependency and Social Security, 1992
• Citizenship: feminist perspectives, 1997, 2nd edition 2003
• Poverty, 2004
• Poverty, 2nd edition 2020 ISBN 978-0745645971
• Gendering Citizenship in Western Europe, 2007
• Co-editor of Why Money Matters, 2008
• Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy, 2010