Yvonne Roberts
Yvonne’s role as a senior associate on the Health Innovator Accelerator team is to seek out projects, social entrepreneurs and embryonic ideas to tackle chronic long term illness outside the mould of the NHS; to link the results of those investigations to Launchpad’s support and expertise and to disseminate the outcomes as widely as possible. 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. |
latest additionsEuropean Venture Philanthropy Association conference in Madrid
Simon Tucker and Andrew Brough attended the annual EVPA conference to highlight Launchpad's activities as an early stage social venture fund and share experiences of investing for social impact with other organisations around Europe.
12 December 2007 | Launchpad
Call for Ideas
Imagining a working world that supports people with long term conditions
12 December 2007 | Launchpad
School of Everything Launches Alpha Site
School of Everything, recently voted amongst Europe's twenty hottest emerging start-ups at Seedcamp, has launched its first version of its online market place for learning.
12 December 2007 | Launchpad
Launch of Studio Schools
Lord Andrew Adonis, Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Schools and Learners hosted the reception for the launch of the next phase of Studio Schools on Tuesday 4th of December at the RSA. In attendance were officials and representatives from central and local government, schools, national and local businesses, and a range of charitable foundations - all interested in building upon the progress made thus far.
25 January 2008 | Learning launchpad
Managing long term conditionsThe World Economic Forum has called on businesses to lead the fight against chronic disease, to embed a culture of health and to manage the change in a population where long term conditions are increasingly prevalent. 30 January 2008 | HIA
most readStudio Schools
A new version of 14-19 school hosting businesses where students are employed, earning real wages alongside a project-based curriculum. Full of Life
Peer-to-peer cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to provide emotional resilience for old people
Studio SchoolsStudio Schools™ continue to gain momentum following its recent launch and inclusion in government speeches and thinking on promising education initiatives. This builds on the momentum established by the national pilot that started last September at Barnfield College in Luton and the detailed planning for studio schools now being conducted at eight local authority areas around the UK. 30 January 2008 | Learning launchpad
Faking It
Faking It aims to provide Young People with the experience and demands of the real-world.
Changing Health
Changing Health aims to address the problems people with long term conditions face, by developing a new flexible support structure
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Yvonne is a Senior Associate with Health Launchpad