Lee Gregory

Lee completed his studies at Cardiff University in social policy and sociology. Since completing his PhD he has been a lecture in Social Policy at the University of Bristol (2012-2013) and University of Birmingham (2013-2021) where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer. During his time at Birmingham he held a range of roles including Undergraduate Programme Director (for 14 programmes) and later the School Head of Education. He joined the University of Nottingham in November 2021 as an Associate Professor in Social Policy.

Lee has previously been a member of the Social Policy Association Executive Committee (July 2015 - Dec 2020) and previously sat on the editorial board for the Social Policy and Society (Jan 2017 - Dec 2020) and currently sits on the editorial board for the Journal of Social Policy (from January 2022). He is a Trustee of Academics Stand Against Poverty (UK Chapter).

His primary research areas are within the topics of poverty, inequality, LGBTQ+ experiences of welfare, welfare theory, social mobility and asset-based welfare (in particular youth savings initiatives).

Lee was involved in the development and delivery of the Queer Populations, Perspectives and Policies conference, co-hosted with Dr Sam Mann which was the forerunner of QPaP.