Professor Loretta Lees
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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, KCL (2005-2008), Senior Lecturer in Geography, KCL (2004-2005), Lecturer in Geography, King’s College (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)
Urban Studies Research (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)
She was Chair of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Urban Geography Research Group (2000-2003) and committee member of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Urban Geography Research Group (1998-2000). She also served on the Research Committee of the Royal Geographical Society (2004-07). Loretta is currently on the ESRC postdoctoral fellowship and small grants panel.
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).
She has served/is serving on the following editorial boards:
City and Society (2010-present)
Urban Studies Research (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)
She was Chair of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Urban Geography Research Group (2000-2003) and committee member of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Urban Geography Research Group (1998-2000). She also served on the Research Committee of the Royal Geographical Society (2004-07). Loretta is currently on the ESRC postdoctoral fellowship and small grants panel.
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).


