Loretta Lees

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Before coming to Boston University in 2022, Professor Lees was a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, where she worked for nine years as director of research. Before that, she was at King’s College London for 16 years and was director of the Cities Research Group. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the Royal Society of the Arts, and the Higher Education Academy. She also serves on a number of editorial boards, including Dialogues in Urban Research and the Journal of Urban Affairs, and previously served on the editorial boards of Urban Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Environment and Planning A, City and Society, Urban Planning, Dialogues in Human Geography, The Canadian Geographer, ACME, among others. She holds a PhD in Urban Geography from the University of Edinburgh. Since 2009 she has co-organized The Urban Salon, a London forum for architecture, cities, and international urbanism.

Professor Lees has been an expert witness to the demolition of the largest public housing project in Europe, leading to a precedent-setting decision based on her research showing the impacts of displacement on a longstanding, low-income, Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) community. She has also had a significant impact through her co-production of anti-gentrification toolkits for council estates in London and four southern European cities. The Urban Affairs Association has recently awarded her the 2022 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award in recognition of this work. In 2022 she was honored with a membership in the invitation-only Academia Europaea.

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