Professor Donna Lee is currently University Senior Tutor on a 0.8 secondment from the department, 2011-2014. In this role she provides strategic leadership at University level on issues related to academic and personal tutoring and the student experience. She Chairs the Advisory Board of the university's new Academic Skills Centre, and is a member of the University Education Committee, the University Student Access and Progress Committee, the University Leadership Forum, and University Senate. She works closely with the PVC for Education, the Director of Academic Services, the five academic colleges, as well as colleagues the Centre Academic and Learning Development, Planning Office, Academic and Student Administration, Student Admissions, and the Student Guild.
As a research active Professor in the Department, Donna provides research leadership as Director of a number of research groups and projects on economic and commercial diplomacy, small state international political economy, and international trade negotiations and development. She teaches on these subjects, mentors junior and probationary academic staff, and supervises doctoral students.
Donna recently completed a World Bank funded project with Dr Mark Hampton (Kent University Business School) on the political economy of tourism in small island states, and has recently worked with colleagues in the BISA African and International Relations Research Group on a 2 year ESRC funded workshop series on Africa in International Relations (PI Sophie Harmon, City University). She is also working with numerous colleagues who Lead/Direct overseas Small States Research Centres/Units at the University of Malta, University of Prince Edward Island (Canada), Reunion University (France), and the University of Tasmania to develop a cross-institutional international research institute on Small States. Donna is also working on a project “Embedding Employability in the Political Science and International Relations curriculum” funded (£10, 000) by the Higher Education Academy.
Donna works closely with her colleague here at Birmingham, Nicki Smith. This year they will work on a new project 'Corporeal Capitalism: Body Matters in Political Economy' to explore the ontological significance of the body to contemporary political economy analysis. The project, led by Nicki, includes a workshop and a proposed special issue of the journal New Political Economy to bring together new research on the embodied nature of political economy by leading political economists from across the globe.
Donna co-edits the Palgrave Diplomacy & International Relations monograph series and holds numerous positions on editorial boards of international refereed journals and monograph series, particularly in the area of diplomacy. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the European Parliament 2013 Conference “the EU and Emerging Powers”, and a member of the British International Studies Association annual Doctoral Thesis Award Committee, 2012.
Donna is currently external examiner on the University of Oxford’s Foreign Service Programme.
Listen to Donna’s recent podcast on the future of the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda.
Lee, D Africa in the WTO, Routledge, forthcoming
Lee, D and Sharp, P (eds) (2010) Diplomatic Studies, in R Denemark (ed.) The International Studies Encyclopedia Vol I Wiley Blackwell.
Lee, D and Wilkinson, R (eds.) (2007) The WTO after Hong Kong: Progress in, and Prospects for, the Doha Development Agenda, Routledge
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Lee, D, Taylor, I and Williams, P.D (eds) (2006) The New Multilateralism in South African Diplomacy, 2006. Palgrave.
Lee, D (1999) Middle Powers in Commercial Diplomacy: British Influence During the Kennedy Trade Round. Macmillan.
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Recent Articles and Chapters
Lee. D and Smith, N.J (in progress) 'What's Queer about Political Science?'
Lee, D and Grix, J (in progress) 'Soft Power and Global Sport Mega Events: Hosting Strategies of Emerging Powers.'
Lee, D, Hurt, S and and Lorenz, U (forthcoming, May 2013) 'The Argumentative Dimension to EPA Negotiations,' International Negotiation
Lee, D, 'Africa Agency and the Global Trade Regime,' (2013) in S. Harman & W. Brown, African Agency in International Relations, Routledge (in press)
Lee, D and Ruel, H (2012) 'Introduction: Commercial Diplomacy and International Business' in H. Ruel (ed.) Commercial Diplomacy and International Business: A Conceptual and Empirical Exploration, Emerald Publishing http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1877-6361&volume=9
Lee, D (2012) 'Poverty and Cotton in the DDA' in R Wilkinson & J Scott (eds.) Trade , Poverty and Development: Getting Beyond the WTO's Doha Deadlock Routldege.
Lee. D (2012) ‘Global Trade Governance and the Challenges of African Activism in the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations’ Global Society, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 81-99
Lee, D and Hocking B (2011) ‘Diplomacy’ in Walter Carlsnaes et al (eds.) IPSA Encyclopedia of Political Science. Sage.
Lee, D and Smith, N (2010) ‘Small State Discourses in the International Political Economy’ Third World Quarterly, Vol 31, No.7.
Lee, D and Hocking, B (2010) ‘Economic Diplomacy’ in Robert A. Denemark (ed.) The International Studies Encyclopedia, Vol. II, pp 1216-1227. Wiley Blackwell.
Lee, D (2009) 'Bringing an Elephant into the Room: African Diplomacy in the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations' in A. Cooper and T. Shaw (eds.) Small State Diplomacies, Palgrave. 2nd Edition currently in press.
Lee, D et al (2009) ‘New Directions in International Relations and Africa’ Editorial to Special Issue, The Roundtable: Commonwealth Journal of International Studies, Vol 98, No. 402, pp 263-267
Lee, D., and Smith, N (2008) 'The Political Economy of Small African States in the WTO' The Round Table, Vol 97, No. 395.
Lee, D., and Hocking, B (2007) 'The Diplomacy of Proximity and Specialness: Enhancing Canada's Representation in the United States' Hague Journal of Diplomacy Vol 1. No. 1
Lee, D et al (2009) ‘New Directions in International Relations and Africa’ Editorial to Special Issue, The Roundtable: Commonwealth Journal of International Studies, Vol 98, No. 402, pp 263-267
Lee, D., and Hocking, H (2008) Change and Innovation in Diplomacy: The Canadian and UK Experience Final Report for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Government of Canada and the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK.
Lee, D (2007) ‘The Cotton Club: The Africa Group in the Doha Development Agenda’ in Donna Lee & Rorden Wilkinson (eds.) The WTO after Hong Kong (Routledge) pp.137-154.
Lee, D (2007) ‘The WTO after Hong Kong: Setting the scene for understanding the Round’ (with Rorden Wilkinson) in Donna Lee & Rorden Wilkinson (eds.) The WTO after Hong Kong (Routledge). pp. 3-25.
Lee, D, Taylor, I and Williams P. D (2006) ‘Conclusions: Reflections on a Decade of Multilateral Diplomacy’ in Donna Lee, Ian Taylor & Paul Williams (eds.) The New Multilateralism in South African Diplomacy (Palgrave) pp 205-217
Lee, D (2006) ‘South Africa in the WTO’ in Donna Lee, Ian Taylor & Paul Williams (eds.) The New Multilateralism in South African Diplomacy (Palgrave) pp.51-77.
Lee, D, Smith, N and Pace, M (2005) ‘Size Matters: Small States and International Relations’ International Studies Perspectives (pieces on our craft), Vol, 6. No3.
Lee, D (2004) 'The Growing Influence of Business in UK Diplomacy', International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 5, No. 1.
Lee, D., and Hudson, D (2004) 'The Old and new Significance of Political Economy in Diplomacy', Review of International Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3.
Lee, D (2004) ‘Understanding the WTO Dispute Settlement System’ in B Hocking & S McGuire (eds.) Trade Politics 2nd edition. (Routledge)
Lee. D (2004) ‘Multilateral Trade Negotiations: The Final Phase of the Kennedy Trade Round’, DSP Discussion Papers, No. 46. (Leicester: Centre for the Study of Diplomacy)
Lee, D and Hamill, J (2001) South African Diplomacy in the Post-Apartheid Era: An Emergent Middle Power?, International Relations Vol. 15. No. 4 pp. 33-59