Yvette leads on Research and Insight for the British Council’s Schools Team. Yvette has worked for Local Authorities as a School Improvement Adviser and led the programme for Early Career Teachers in Oxfordshire. Yvette is a member of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Education Advisory Group. Yvette is a Magistrate and Presiding Justice for Thames Valley. In 2016 she received a Queens Award for her voluntary work as a Trustee of the Oxford Community Soup Kitchen.