Dame Teresa Lesley Rees, DBE,

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(11 June 1949 – 22 September 2023) was a British social scientist, and a professor at

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. She specialised in the analysis of gender equality within education, training and labour market policies.

Life and career

Teresa Lesley Rees was born in

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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.Profile
exeter.ac.uk; accessed 31 December 2015. 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

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for her work on equal opportunities and higher education. In 2012, she was elected a

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. In January 2015, she was made a

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(DBE) "for services to social sciences". Dame Teresa Rees died of cancer on 22 September 2023, at the age of 74.

References

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