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Dr. Jill Vickers is a retired professor of Political Science at Carleton University. She received her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, where her thesis was supervised by Michael Oakeshott; see (1991) An Examination of the Scientific Mode of Enquiry in Political Science: Systems Theory in the Works of Easton, Almond, Kaplan & Deutsch, New York: Garland. She began teaching at Carleton in 1971.

Dr. Vicker's approach to political science combines involvements in the "real world of politics" with scholarly analysis of political life and discourses about it. She has been active in policy formation submitting a dozen reports to government agencies, including the Parliamentary Committee on Election Expenses (1966); the Secretary of State on Barriers to Women's Involvement as Parliamentary Candidates (1975); UNESCO on What Facilitates Women's Participation in Political Life (1986). She has briefed the Ministerial Workshop on Federal Policy Development on the political structure of the Canadian women's movement (1988); provided Status of Women Canada with a Glossary of Terms Used in the English-Canadian Women's Movement (1994); and advised the Status of Women Advisory panel on the Beijing Plan of Action (1996).

As a policy advocate, Dr. Vickers participated in the Equality Rights Coalition advocating equality rights in the Charter and wrote articles about equality theory; see (1986) "Equality Seeking in a Cold Climate", in L. Smyth, et. al., Righting the Balance: Canada's New Equality Rights. As President of the Canadian Research Institute on the Status of Women and Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Women's Studies Association, she helped build the structures within which feminist scholarship emerged. She also served as Parliamentarian of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women from 1983 to 1988 and co-authored Politics As If Women Mattered: A Political Analysis of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (1994) with two of her former graduate students, Pauline Rankin and Christine Appelle.

She is author of other books and monographs, textbooks, and instructional television programs, book chapters and articles in a number of areas. Currently, her main focus is the development of feminist political science. In 1997, she published Re-Inventing Political Science: A Feminist Approach (Halifax: Fernwood), mapping out a research agenda.