Academic career
Yeates began her academic career as a Research Fellow at the Women’s Education Research and Resource Centre,University College Dublin,under the European Commission’s Human Capital Mobility Programme (1994–1995). She was appointed Teaching Fellow in Social Policy at University College Dublin (1995–1996).
From 1996 to 2005,Yeates was a Lecturer in Social Policy at Queen’s University Belfast. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer at The Open University in 2005,later becoming Professor of Social Policy in 2011 and subsequently in 2023. [2]
Research
Yeates’research examines transnationalisation and globalisation as social processes and their implications for social policy and welfare. [3] Her work considers how social diversity,inequality and division are shaped and addressed through cross-border dynamics.
Her areas of study include global and regional systems of social governance and their interaction with national welfare systems;labour migration,health and social protection;and the development of transnational advocacy and policy networks. [4] She has written on the concept of “global care chains” and the effects of international migration on health and social care systems. [5]
Yeates has co-authored studies on international health worker migration and governance,including International Health Worker Migration and Recruitment:Global Governance,Politics and Policy,which examines the global political economy of health labour recruitment. With Ross Fergusson,she has also published on global youth unemployment,exploring its political economy and governance challenges. [6]
Her research has been supported by funding from organisations including UK Research and Innovation,the ESRC–DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation, [7] the Canadian Institutes of Health Research,and the European Science Foundation.
She has also collaborated with international bodies such as the World Health Organization,the International Labour Organization,UNESCO and the World Bank,in addition to regional organisations in Africa,Latin America and Asia. At The Open University she leads a research partnership with Public Services International,a global federation of public service trade unions. [8]
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