Loretta Lees#
Membership Number: | 5975 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
Elected: | 2022 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geography/people/professor-loretta-lees-1 |
ORCID: | 0000-0001-5834-8155 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2013 Professor of Human Geography, University of Leicester, UK.
- 1997 - 2013 Professor of Human Geography (2008-2013), Reader (2005-08), Senior Lecturer (2004-05), Lecturer (1997-2004), King’s College London, UK
- 1995 - 1997 Post-doctoral research fellow, University of British Columbia, Canada
- 1994 - 1995 Visiting Lecturer, Waikato University, New Zealand
Fields of Scholarship
- Urban policy
- Global urban studies
- Comparative urbanism
- Urban theory
- Geographies of architecture
- Gentrification studies
- Urban public space
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award, Urban Affairs Association, USA
- 2019 ESRC Impact Award, Outstanding Impact on Society, shortlisted (1 of 6)
- 2018 Elected Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK (FHEA)
- 2017 Identified as the 17th most referenced author in urban geography worldwide and the only woman in the top 20 (Urban Studies, 2017, doi: 10.1177/0042098017717205)
- 2013 Elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences, UK (FacSS)
- 2012 Elected Fellow Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA)