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
- 2026
- Recipient
- 2026
- Recipient
- 2020
- Recipient
- 2020
- Recipient
- 2020
Publications
- Sociological Research Online, pp. 1-11 (2026)
- Breeze Maddie,
- Universit盲t - Macht - Wissen Postkoloniale, feministische und partizipative Perspektiven im Kontext akademischer Lehre (2026) (2026)
- , Breeze Maddie
- Gender and Education Vol 38, pp. 497-512 (2026)
- , Breeze Maddie
- Educational Review, pp. 1-16 (2026)
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- (2026)
- Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality & Scotland (2026) (2026)
Professional Activities
- Speaker
- 3/4/2026
- Organiser
- 23/3/2026
- Organiser
- 2026
- Contributor
- 2026
- Organiser
- 2026
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 2026
Projects
- Vasquez Pistorio, Bianca (Project Lead) Baracho Wanderley, Barbara Evelyn (Co-investigator) Gherghina, Gabriela Loredana (Co-investigator) Rani, Misbah (Co-investigator) Fergus-Allen, Cameron (Co-investigator) Garvey, Brian (Academic) Remnant, Jennifer (Academic) Werkmeister, Astrid (Academic) Taylor, Yvette (Academic)
- This project seeks to co-produce an inclusive, interdisciplinary network that strengthens a supportive teaching and research culture, bridges gaps between postgraduate researchers and academic staff across SBS, Engineering, and HASS to address the challenges of navigating academic culture.
- 16-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2026
- Taylor, Yvette (Principal Investigator) Marta, Samara (Researcher)
- 'Cultures of Collaborative Research in a Socially Progressive Technological University', Wellcome Trust grant
- 09-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2026
- Taylor, Yvette (Principal Investigator) Charlton, Kayleigh (Co-investigator) Hardley, Stephanie (Co-investigator) House, Melody (Co-investigator) Marta, Samara (Co-investigator) Mevawalla, Zinnia (Co-investigator) Zhang, Siqi (Co-investigator)
- This SHSSS-SGSAH funded two-day workshop - Feminist Research Methods: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Inequality, Community and Creative Practice - returns the Spring Into Methods offering to the 糖心视频, where the original Feminist Research Methods initiative was first developed in 2016 (funded from 2017). We retain our commitment to widening participation, supporting students and staff across the career course, and from institutions that have historically been under-represented.
Building on this legacy, the workshop extends Strathclyde鈥檚 commitment to inclusive, interdisciplinary and publicly-engaged scholarship, while drawing on a rich ecosystem of collaboration with external partners such as Glasgow Women鈥檚 Library (GWL). The 2026 iteration will focus on methodological approaches that speak directly to key SGSS themes (social inequalities, inclusive culture, heritage and creative practice) centring interdisciplinary as an aim, objective and learning outcome. - 13-Jan-2026 - 14-Jan-2026
- 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
Contact
Professor
Yvette
Taylor
Strathclyde Institute of Education
Email: yvette.taylor@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8048