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Personal Statement
Yvette Taylor acted as School of Education Research Director (2017-2019) and Deputy Head of School (2019). She was previously Professor in Social & Policy Studies and Head of the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research (2011-2015) and Senior Lecturer (Sociology), Newcastle University (2005-2011). Yvette was nominated for the THES Outstanding Leadership and Management Team (2013), as Diversity Role Model (2013), for a Strathclyde Medal (2017) and a HaSS Teaching Excellence Award (2020). She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Scottish Parliament Academic Fellow (2020-21).
Yvette was Visiting Professor, Centre for Feminist Research, York University (2020), and at the Australian National University (2018). She has received several international fellowships including the Lillian Robinson Fellowship, Concordia University (2009) and a Fulbright Scholarship, Rutgers University (2010-2011). She has obtained a wide variety of funding, including an EU Norface (£1.4m) 3 year project 'Comparing Intersectional Life Course Inequalities amongst LGBTQI+ Citizens in Four European Counties'. Other projects include ESRC funded ‘From the Coal Face to the Car Park? Gender and Class in the North East of England’ (2007-2009), ‘Making Space for Queer Identifying Religious Youth’ (2011-2013) and British Academy mid-career fellowship ‘Critical Terrain: Dividing Lines and Lives’ (2013-2014).
Yvette mentors a variety of early career researchers, and acts as named mentor on fellowships including ESRC postdocts, Marie Curie, Leverhulme, and Fulbright Distinguished Teacher schemes. She is currently mentor to Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS) funded postdoc on 'International Trans and Intersex Activist Relationships: Ethics, Ethnodrama and Representation'.
Yvette has published four sole-authored books based on funded research: Working-class Lesbian Life (2007); Lesbian and Gay Parenting (2009); Fitting Into Place? Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities (2012) and Making Space for Queer Identifying Religious Youth (2015), and has co-authored Feminist Repetitions in Higher Education: Interrupting Career Categories (2020).
Edited titles include Educational Diversity (2012); The Entrepreneurial University (2014); Mapping Intimacies (2013); Queering Religion, Religious Queers (2014); Feeling Academic in the NeoLiberal University (2018). Yvette edits the Palgrave Gender and Education Series and co-edits the Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities Series and is on the Editorial Boards of Gender and Education, Social and Cultural Geography, Sexualities (Sociology 2011-2016). She is External Examiner (Sociology), University of Surrey (2016- ).
Yvette teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes including the MEd Education Studies, the MSc Applied Gender Studies and delivers CLPL 'Feminist Classrooms' to practitioners. She set up the Strathclyde Feminist Research Network Seminar Series in 2016, and has co-organized this with colleagues ever since.
Yvette supervises across areas of gender, sexuality, class, educational inequality, religion - and currently supervises the following PhDs, including ESRC and Research Excellence funded:
Cared Experienced Students
Queer, Disability & Higher Education
Queer Parenting & Schooling
Student Estrangement
Social class and the 'Bottom Reading Group'
Gender Performance in Rural Secondary School
Immigrant and Refuge Students
Hijra Community in India
Queer Teachers
Negotiations of Sexual Consent
Trans Lives & Social Media
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Social Science, University of York
Award Date: 1 Dec 2004
External positions
External, University of Surrey
Keywords
- Class
- Sexuality
- Gender
- Educational Inequalities
- Religion
- Feminism
- Widening Participation
- Queer
- Geographies
- Interdisciplinarity
- Intersectionality
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Network
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International Trans and Intersex Activist Relationships: Ethics, Ethnodrama and Representation
ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council)
1/10/21 → 21/11/22
Project: Research Fellowship
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Ethnodrama and Accessibility: International LGBTIQ+ Research Sharing
Humphrey, R. H., Taylor, Y. & Govender, N.
17/12/21 → 31/07/22
Project: Internally funded project
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Introduction: Queer sharing in the marketized university
Taylor, Y., Brim, M. & Mahn, C., 23 Nov 2022, Queer Sharing in the Marketised University . Mahn, C., Brim, M. & Taylor, Y. (eds.). Abingdon, (Advances in Critical Diversities ).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Introduction: situating imposter syndrome in higher education
Breeze, M., Taylor, Y. & Addison, M., 29 Apr 2022, The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education. Addison, M., Breeze, M. & Taylor, Y. (eds.). London, 13 p. (Palgrave Handbooks).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Prizes
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Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Taylor, Yvette (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Election to learned society
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HaSS Teaching Excellence Awards 2020 (Teaching Impact and Innovation, Nominee)
Taylor, Yvette (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
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Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education
Yvette Taylor (Contributor), Michelle Addison (Contributor) & Maddie Breeze (Contributor)
21 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Spring Into Methods - Doing Feminist Research
Yvette Taylor (Speaker)
May 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course