Yvonne Roberts

Yvonne is a Senior Associate

Yvonne’s role as a senior associate is to provide support in the areas of health, education, parenting and well-being. Yvonne is an award winning journalist and broadcaster.

She originally specialised in the Middle East and foreign news reporting, later moving to investigative work for Thames TV’s This Week and series for the BBC. She has written for all the broadsheets including The Observer and The Sunday Times, covering social policy, politics, investigations and comment. She has been a columnist on the New Statesman and is now a regular contributor to the Guardian’s blog, Comment is Free. She has written four novels and three non-fiction books on men, relationships and gender politics and contributed to other works including The Rise and Rise of the Meritocracy, marking the half centenary of the Institute of Community Studies.

She is a trustee of FPWP Hibiscus, a charity working to discourage female drug “mules” and offer support to families once a woman is convicted.She is also a trustee of Women in Prison.

Yvonne is a commissioner on the 4Children Family Commission, chaired by Esther Rantzen. It makes its final recommendations in 2010. She is also a member of the Knowsley Youth Commission.