Professor Loretta Lees
Professor
Email: loretta.lees@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2243
Department of Geography
King's College London
K4.20 Strand Campus
London WC2R 2LS
Research Interests
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urban geography
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gentrification
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the politics of urban public spaces
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the geography of architecture
Biography
Loretta Lees is currently Professor of Human Geography at King’s College London. She has a PhD in Geography from the University of Edinburgh (1994). Her previous posts have been Reader in Geography, King's (2005-2008), Senior Lecturer in Geography, King's (2004-2005), Lecturer in Geography, King's (1997-2004), Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada (1995-1997) and Visiting Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Waikato, New Zealand (1994).
She has served/is serving on the following editorial boards:
City and Society (2010-present)
Dialogues in Human Geography (2009-present).
Geography Compass (2006-present)
Environment and Planning A (2002-present)
The Canadian Geographer (2004-2006)
ACME: an international e-journal for critical geographies (2003-2006)
Loretta is a member of the ESRC Peer Review College. She served on the Research Committe of the RGS-IBG (2004-2007). She was Chair of the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group (2000-2003) and a committee member of the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group (1998-2000).
Loretta co-organises (with Jenny Robinson, Matthew Gandy, Monica Degen, Abou Malique Simone and Hyun Bang Shin) the Urban Salon: a London forum for architecture, cities and international urbanism (www.theurbansalon.org).
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