Vicky Randall

Vicky Randall (born Mary Victoria Madge; 1945 – 2019) was a professor of political science and feminist scholar.

[1] Randall was born in Birmingham on 3 April 1945, to the novelist Inez Pearn (who published under her pen name, Elizabeth Lake) and the poet and sociologist Charles Madge, co-founder of Mass Observation and later Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham.

[7] Pippa Norris, a Harvard comparative political scientist, described her as “a pioneer who paved the way for us”; her friend and colleague John Bartle wrote, “She was gentle and self-effacing but fiercely intelligent and brave, and possessed deeply held values, which she expressed in both her life and work.”[8] Following her formal retirement in 2010, Vicky became the Emeritus Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Essex.

• Contemporary Feminist Politics: Women and Power in Britain, Joni Lovenduski and Vicky Randall, Oxford University Press, 1993.

• Religion in Third World Politics, Jeffrey Haynes and Vicky Randall (Editor), Taylor & Francis Group, 1993.

• Foreign Aid in a Changing World, Peter J. Burnell and Vicky Randall (Editor), Open University Press, 1997.

• The Politics of Child Daycare in Britain, Vicky Randall, Oxford University Press, 2000.

Vicky Randall published numerous research articles, too many to list here, but a sample of articles and reviews available online (some with restricted access) is given below: • Gendering Political Science, Vicky Randall, published as Chapter 1 of Deeds and Words, Gendering Politics after Joni Lovenduski, edited by Rosie Campbell and Sarah Childs, ECPR Press, 2014 • Gender in Contemporary British Politics, Vicky Randall, Joni Lovenduski, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol.