Professor Sir Roger Jowell
Doctor of Laws (HonLLD)
Year conferred: 1999
Professor Sir Roger Jowell is a Research Professor at City University London where he is the founder Director of the Centre for Comparative Social Surveys. He is the Principal Investigator of the European Social Survey (ESS), a rigorous comparative survey of changing social attitudes and values within and between 34 European countries. The ESS won the Descartes Prize in 2005 for "excellence in collaborative scientific research" and was named in 2007 as one of the new 'ESFRI' European Research Infrastructures. Prior to joining City University, Sir Roger was the founder Director of the National Centre for Social Research, Britain's largest social research institute. He writes widely on changing political and social attitudes and on research methodology, especially comparative research.
He was knighted in 2008 for "services to social science".
