Teresa Rees

Dame Teresa Lesley Rees, DBE, FAcSS, FLSW (born June 1949) is a British social scientist, and a professor at Cardiff University. She specialises in the analysis of gender equality within education, training and labour market policies.[1]

Career

She is professor emerita in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. She served as principal investigator for the Women Adding Value to the Economy (WAVE) project, was a visiting professor at Sweden's GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, and was director of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.[2][3]

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.[3] In January 2015, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) "for services to social sciences".[4]

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References
  1. "WIR Expert Group Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  2. Profile, cardiff.ac.uk; accessed 31 December 2015.
  3. Profile, exeter.ac.uk; accessed 31 December 2015.
  4. "Professor Teresa Rees awarded a Damehood for services to Social Sciences". Cardiff University. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
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