Lee Edwards#

• 2021 Professor of Strategic Communication and Public Engagement, Department of Media and Communications, LSE
• 2017 - 2021 Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications, LSE
• 2020 - 2024 Deputy Head (Teaching), Department of Media and Communications, LSE
• 2011 - 2017 Associate Professor, Communication Studies and PR, School of Media and Communications, University of Leeds
• 2010 - 2011 Lecturer, Corporate Communications and PR, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
• 2007 - 2010 Senior Lecturer, Public Relations and Communications, Leeds Metropolitan University
• 2004 - 2007 Lecturer, Public Relations and Communications, Leeds Metropolitan University

• Media literacy policy and practice
• Sociology of the professions
• Sociology of justification
• Promotional industries and cultures
• Bourdieu: fields, capital, habitus
• Public relations, public participation and deliberative democracy
• Inequality (race, gender, intersectionality) and the public relations profession
• Public consultation, public service media and copyright
• Public relations, postcolonial/decolonial theory, and social justice

• 2022 LSE Excellence in Education Award (and 2019, 2021)
• 2021 Winner, LSE Student Union Teaching Awards for ‘Excellent Welfare and Pastoral Support'
• 2020 Top paper award, ICA Environmental Communication Division, Gender and Climate Change Communications Practices: Pilot Research in Two Communities in Rural Kenya (with co-authors)
• 2019 Aurora Leadership Programme for Higher Education, UK programme for advancement of women in leadership
• 2013 Top paper award, ICA Communication Policy Division, Justifying Copyright: Discourse, Legitimation and Critique (with co-authors)

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