Dame Teresa Lesley Rees, DBE, FAcSS, FLSW (11 June 1949 – 22 September 2023) was a British social scientist, and a professor at Cardiff University. She specialised in the analysis of gender equality within education, training and labour market policies.[1]

Life and career

Teresa Lesley Rees was born in Wells, Somerset on 11 June 1949.[2] She was professor emerita in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. She was principal investigator for the Women Adding Value to the Economy (WAVE) project, a visiting professor at Sweden's GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, and director of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.[3][4]

A former Equal Opportunities commissioner, she received the Welsh Woman of the Year Award for "outstanding contributions to women in Wales", and in 2002 was made a CBE for her work on equal opportunities and higher education.[4] In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[5] In January 2015, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) "for services to social sciences".[6]

Dame Teresa Rees died of cancer on 22 September 2023, at the age of 74.[7][2]

References

  1. ↑ "WIR Expert Group Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  2. 1 2 Joll, Caroline (25 October 2023). "Dame Teresa Rees obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  3. ↑ Profile, cardiff.ac.uk; accessed 31 December 2015.
  4. 1 2 Profile, exeter.ac.uk; accessed 31 December 2015.
  5. ↑ Wales, The Learned Society of. "Teresa Rees". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  6. ↑ "Professor Teresa Rees awarded a Damehood for services to Social Sciences". Cardiff University. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  7. ↑ "Professor Dame Teresa Rees". Cardiff University. 27 September 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2023.


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