Catherine Lee MBE
Professor of Inclusive Education & Leadership, Anglia Ruskin University
Professor Catherine Lee has an MBE for services to equality in education. She is also a National Teaching Fellow in recognition of her work to improve the national landscape in schools and universities.
Before working in higher education, Catherine spent over twenty years as a teacher, both in inner-city Liverpool and rural Suffolk. She was initially a PE teacher before working in learning development and pastoral leadership roles in mainstream schools.
Catherine has published extensively on the theme of LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools. In 2016, working with schools she helped to set up the UK’s first leadership development programme for LGBTQ+ teachers.
Catherine has been nominated for a number of national awards for her work in education, including a British Diversity Award and National Diversity Award. She also featured in the LGBT Pride Power List in 2019 as one of the most influential LGBT people in the UK. Catherine has a number of strategic governance roles in the education and charity sectors, where she uses her national profile in pursuit of inclusive education and social justice. In 2022, Catherine worked as an adviser on the BAFTA nominated feature film, Blue Jean about the experiences of a teacher under Section 28.
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