Yvette Taylor is a Sociologist and a Professor of Education, University of Strathclyde (2011-2015). She has obtained a wide variety of funding, including Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded From the Coal Face to the Car Park? Gender and Class in the North East of England (2007-2009) and Making Space for Queer Identifying Religious Youth (2011-2013) and Norface funded Comparing Intersectional Lifecourse Inequalities amongst LGBTQI+Citizens in Four European Countries (2018-2021).

Yvette has published four sole-authored books, including Working-Class Lesbian Life (2007); Lesbian and Gay Parents (2009); Fitting Into Place? Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities (2012); Making Space for Queer Identifying Religious Youth (2015). Edited titles include Educational Diversity: the subject of difference and different subjects (2012); The Entrepreneurial University (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.

Research project undertaken at the ANU

While at ANU, Yvette will present ‘Imposter syndrome’ and the career course: Striking out a claim', based on ongoing collaborative research and forthcoming book Feminist Interruptions: Cross-career collaborations in Higher Education (with Dr Maddie Breeze). She is working with Prof. Mary Lou Rasmussen given their shared interests in religious identity and expressions amongst queer youth and they will be presenting a plenary panel at The Australian Sociological Association (TASA). Yvette will also be supporting the Queer Methodology Workshop at Kioloa, and attending the Happy Anniversary? Reflecting on Marriage Equality conference. She will round off her visit with the Gender and Education conference where she will participate in a plenary panel 'Care-full Academics:  Care-work in the academy' with ANU PhD student, Bryony Lipton.