Professor Vernon Bogdanor receives Lifetime Achievement Award
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We congratulate Professor Vernon Bogdanor, who has received a lifetime achievement award. He was presented with the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies at the annual Political Studies Association (PSA) lunchtime awards ceremony in London on 25 November 2008.
The citation from the PSA, the professional organisation for political scientists in Britain, says ‘Professor Vernon Bogdanor was the unanimous choice of the jurors for the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies. Academic jurors praised the forensic intellect which had yielded a plethora of seminal publications. Professor Bogdanor`s work on constitutions has been of incalculable academic and public benefit. The judges also noted the broader contribution of Professor Bogdanor to public life in the service of democracy, including advice to governments, work for the Hansard Society and assistance to the Economic and Social Research Council.`
The award was instituted in 2000 and Professor Bogdanor is the second Oxford academic to be honoured in this way. David Marquand a former Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, who is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Department, received the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize in 2001.
