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.
Life and career
Teresa Lesley Rees was born in Wells, Somerset on 11 June 1949. 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.
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. In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. In January 2015, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) "for services to social sciences".
Dame Teresa Rees died of cancer on 22 September 2023, at the age of 74.
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- Profile, cardiff.ac.uk; accessed 31 December 2015.
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- "Professor Teresa Rees awarded a Damehood for services to Social Sciences". Cardiff University. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- "Professor Dame Teresa Rees". Cardiff University. 27 September 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
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