Yvonne is one of the longest serving, and most loved, applied research ethnographers in the UK. She has worked for several large research agencies in the UK and US, and for a diverse range of clients including Unilever, Diageo and the Royal College of Nursing Institute. She specialises in conducting research in difficult situations and gaining the trust of participants. She recently finished a year-long ethnographic study for a London PCT looking at using a cultural consultation model to reduce conflict in Medium Secure Psychiatric Wards, and the effects of culture on the presentation and treatment of mental illness. For ESRO, she has recently conducted fieldwork in A&E departments and among the black Caribbean community of Lambeth. Additionally, Yvonne is a scholar of ‘queer’ theory and maintains both personal and professional projects looking into issues of race, gender and sexual identity.

When not busy with the above, she spends her time working on projects in and around the Afropean Diaspora. She intermittently tries to come to grips with video cameras and video editing software because she just knows there is at least one half-decent documentary somewhere in her future. To relax she practises cornering at increasing speed on her motorbike without falling off. To increase the stress she thinks about learning German.

Yvonne is an ESRO Associate.