Professor Yvette Taylor
Strathclyde Institute of Education
Personal statement
Yvette Taylor is Professor of Education and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, holding senior leadership roles including Head of the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research at LSBU (2011鈥�15), Research Director (2017鈥�19) and Deputy Head (2019鈥�20). She is currently Research Director and Co-Director of Postgraduate Research (2025- ).
Yvette鈥檚 research centres on class inequality, education, social justice, and queer life, working closely with policymakers, artists, and community organisations. Collaborations include projects with the Scottish Government on LGBTQ+ lives during the pandemic, Make Your Mark on inclusive volunteering, and Scottish Ballet鈥檚 Safe to be Me, exploring inclusive school curricula.
Yvette is the author of multiple books on queer-class formations, most recently (Pluto, 2023) widely recognised for its intervention into class inequality within queer studies. Her RSE Personal Research Fellowship, Queer Futures: Alternative Models for Social Justice, launched the Queer and the Cost of Living Crisis seminar series and a programme of Queer Social Justice Pop-Ups, including work at Pride events with artists and designers.
Yvette鈥檚 higher education research includes funded projects on LGBTQ+ carers in universities, estranged and care-experienced students, queer precarity, and redistributing resources in the Queer International Academy. She has edited major collections including , , and the open-access. Her arts-based work appears in open-access zines and the ESRC-funded Exhibiting Queer Social Justice project. (Bloomsbury, 2026) is open access and interdisciplinary.
Funded research include and projects on class, gender, justice inequalities, and the project on LGBTQ+ life-course experiences across Europe. Yvette has held international visiting positions at Rutgers (Fulbright), ANU, Concordia, and Sciences Po etc..
She welcomes PhD supervision across a wide range of topics including e.g. queer and trans studies, class and education, disability, gender and schooling, and queer-feminist methods. Yvette organises the annual SGSSS Spring into Methods Feminist Research Methods workshops.
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Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 2020
- Recipient
- 2020
- Recipient
- 2020
Publications
- Breeze Maddie,
- Universit盲t - Macht - Wissen Postkoloniale, feministische und partizipative Perspektiven im Kontext akademischer Lehre (2026) (2026)
- (2026)
- , Murji Karim, Neal Sarah, Solomos John
- An Introduction to Sociology Second Edition (2026) (2026)
- Duncan AJ, Jardine Rachel, Leisk Madeleine, Purwin Candice,
- (2026)
- Leisk Madeleine,
- (2026)
- Breeze Maddie,
- The Sage Encyclopedia of Education and Gender (2025) (2025)
Professional Activities
- Speaker
- 3/4/2026
- Organiser
- 23/3/2026
- Organiser
- 2026
- Organiser
- 2026
- Host
- 2026
- Organiser
- 2026
Projects
- Klein, Markus (Principal Investigator) Taylor, Yvette (Co-investigator) Robinson, Carol (Co-investigator) Marta, Samara (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2026 - 30-Jan-2026
- Taylor, Yvette (Principal Investigator) Oliver, Joshua (Co-investigator)
- This project explores how an artistic intervention located on the Strathclyde campus can act as a catalyst for meaningful engagement with EDI questions. The project pilots the 鈥榗ivic arts cycle鈥� in a university setting, using a campus-specific EDI prompt derived from Athena Swan themes. A visual/interactive installation - an 鈥楨DI Door鈥� as re-imagined Athena motif - interrupts routine campus space and invites students, staff and equalities groups to collectively produce insights that move beyond compliance towards lived-experience-driven institutional learning
- 01-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2026
- Taylor, Yvette (Principal Investigator) Brim, Matt (Principal Investigator) McKinlay, Jack (Post Grad Student)
- Redistributing Resources in the International Queer Academy consolidates previous work, reckoning with class inequality via the discipline of 鈥榪ueer theory鈥�, as central to Gender Studies, Social Science and Humanities disciplines. It imagines the creation of cross-class, cross-institutional relationships that provide the connective tissue for more varied queer-class scholarly and pedagogical possibilities. This can only be done if we have a much more thorough understanding of the material realities of poor and working-class queer education and the knowledge that 鈥榰nderclass academic鈥� communities create.
- 28-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025
- Taylor, Yvette (Principal Investigator)
- Queer Social Justice as Academic Practice is a participatory interdisciplinary workshop providing provocations in ongoing research issues and urgencies. Situated within queer and feminist research methods, offering inspiration, critical reflection and practical sessions it thinks about what research matters, and why? Is our mattering measured in or beyond citation, or what other measures of 鈥榰se鈥� might we imagine as we reconstruct our mattering?
- 03-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2025
- Taylor, Yvette (Principal Investigator) Reggiani, Marco (Principal Investigator)
- This project addresses 鈥榯he scarcity of quality data regarding rural communities鈥� (RSE, 2023), focusing on the possibilities of LGBTQ+ lives, people and places as offering a 鈥榪ueer-ing鈥� of normative knowledges, locations and centres.
拢 3,000 HaSS Strategic Project - 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2024
- Breeze, Maddie (Principal Investigator) Taylor, Yvette (Co-investigator) Govinda, Radhika (Co-investigator) Mackay, Jennifer (Co-investigator)
- In-depth SGSSS-SGSAH funded workshop building on previous Spring into Methods events, expanding successful collaborations across the Universities of Edinburgh, Queen Margaret, Stirling, and Strathclyde. Mobilizing interdisciplinary networks 鈥� theGender Research Group (Stirling), Feminist Research Network (Strathclyde), GENDER.ED (UoE) - ensures the workshop appeals to a full range of Arts & Humanities and Social Science postgraduate researchers. In response to feedback we have enhanced representation of a range of universities, and aim to include participants from diverse Scottish HEIs.
- 25-Jan-2024 - 27-Jan-2024
Contact
Professor
Yvette
Taylor
Strathclyde Institute of Education
Email: yvette.taylor@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8048