Sharon Witherspoon
British statistician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sharon Fae Witherspoon, Lady Jowell MBE FAcSS (born 1956)[1] is a British statistician, serving as Head of Policy of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Campaign for Social Science, and as a member of the Review Body on Senior Salaries of the British government.[2] She is also Vice President for Education and Statistical Literacy of the Royal Statistical Society.[3]
Witherspoon went to high school in the United States, and earned a degree in sociology at an American university, before her postgraduate study of historical sociology at the London School of Economics.[4][5] She worked for a market research firm before becoming a researcher at Social and Community Planning Research, which later became the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen).[4]
At NatCen, Witherspoon was one of the initial researchers of the British Social Attitudes Survey.[6] She worked for the Nuffield Foundation from 1996 to 2015, and was director of the foundation from 2012 until 2015. She moved to the Academy of Social Sciences in 2016.[2][7][8]
Witherspoon is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.[9] She became a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2008. In 2011 she was awarded the President's Medal of the British Academy.[7] In 2015, University College London gave her an honorary doctorate.[9]
Witherspoon married one of her collaborators on the British Social Attitudes Survey,[6] statistician Sir Roger Jowell (as his third wife) in 1996; he died in 2011.[10]
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