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 Yvonne Roberts is an award winning journalist who has worked for all the major national newspapers specialising in investigations, interviews, features and comment. She was an associate Features Editor of Robert Maxwell’s now defunct London Daily News and a section editor on The Observer. She has also worked in current affairs television in the Middle East, the USA and Europe, working for both the BBC and ITV and continues to broadcast from time to time. She is the author of four novels and four works of non-fiction whose subjects include gender issues, feminism, social policy and education. At present, she is a senior associate at The Young Foundation, a social innovation think tank that is involved, locally, nationally and internationally, in research, consultancy and funding and supporting social enterprises. Yvonne’s remit at the Young Foundation is health, education, wellbeing, parenting support and local regeneration. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian and The Guardian’s Comment is Free and she is working on a novel based around The Battle of Waterloo.
She is the author of Grit, published by the Young Foundation, that attempts to make the case for radical change in education in the UK, advocating an end to the ‘one size fits all’ approach – and encouraging more diversity, a greater value placed on practical and vocational learning and the importance of emotional and social literacy, resilience, self-discipline and persistence – or Grit.
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