Roy Jenkins 1983 general election, when Owen succeeded him unopposed. Jenkins was disappointed with Owen's move to the right, and his acceptance and backing of some of Thatcher's policies. At heart, Jenkins remained a Keynesian. He continued to serve as SDP Member of Parliament for Glasgow Hillhead until his defeat at the 1987 general election by the Labour candidate George Galloway, after boundary changes in 1983 had changed the character of the constituency. From 1987, Jenkins remained in politics as a member of the House of Lords as a life peer with the title Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, of Pontypool in the
Richard Jenkins (sociologist) Richard Jenkins (sociologist) Richard Jenkins, FAcSS (born 1952) is a sociologist and retired academic. From 1995 to 2014, he was Chair in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. Richard Jenkins was born in 1952 in Liverpool and grew up in Northern Ireland. He studied social anthropology at Queen's University Belfast, and the University of Cambridge, where he completed his doctoral studies; his PhD was awarded in 1981 for his thesis "Young people, education and work in a Belfast housing estate". After working at the Social Science Research Council Unit on Ethnic Relations at Aston University, Jenkins took up a post