Prof Sue YeandleAcademic

Biography

Prof Sue Yeandle OBE is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield, affiliated to CIRCLE, the Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and was awarded the OBE for Services to Research into Care and Caring in the 2025 King's Birthday Honours. She served on the Advisory Panel for the Independent Sayce Review of Carer's Allowance overpayments, commissioned by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 2025–26. Now retired, she was previously Director and Principal Investigator of the ESRC Centre for Care (2022–24) and the Sustainable Care: connecting people and systems programme (2017–2021), and was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Care and Caring (2016–24). Across her career she specialised in comparative international analysis of care arrangements, the relationship between work and care, and how social and employment policies affect people's caring roles across the life course. She regularly provided evidence and advice on social care and carers to governments and parliamentarians in the UK and internationally.

References

1. 1.Emeritus Professor Sue Yeandle OBE – University of Sheffield staff page — Current role as Emeritus Professor, OBE award, Sayce Review advisory panel membership, career history and research focus
2. 2.Independent Review of Carer's Allowance Overpayments (Sayce Review) – GOV.UK — Named as member of the Review's Advisory Panel by the Review's lead, Liz Sayce OBE
3. 3.Professor Sue Yeandle recognised in King's Birthday Honours – Centre for Care — OBE awarded for services to research into care and caring; founding of ESRC Centre for Care
4. 4.Sue Yeandle OBE – the Centre for Care — Research specialism, policy advisory role, international work, and Carers UK collaboration
5. 5.Professor Sue Yeandle – University of Sheffield (Sociological Studies)

Expertise

Cited on

• Adult social care & reform

Stated areas of expertise

• Unpaid carers policy
• Work-care reconciliation
• Social care reform
• Carer's Allowance
• Comparative international care analysis
• Care workforce policy

Notable achievements

• Served on the Advisory Panel for the Independent Sayce Review of Carer's Allowance overpayments, commissioned by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2025–26) Source ↗
• Awarded OBE for Services to Research into Care and Caring in the 2025 King's Birthday Honours Source ↗
• Founded and directed the ESRC Centre for Care (2022–24), the first ESRC-funded centre dedicated to care research Source ↗
• Special Adviser to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee for its 2008 Inquiry on Carers Source ↗
• Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Care and Caring (2016–2024) Source ↗

What they’ve said

• “Ministers and senior officials had issued 'really misleading' claims that the failures affected only a small number of people”

  UK's leading expert on unpaid carers, former director of the Centre for Care at the University of Sheffield · Adult social care & reform · 27 Aug 2026 · Pressure grows on DWP over ‘misleading’ response to carer’s allowance scandal ↗

• “she had little confidence in senior departmental officials to fix carer's allowance injustices”

  member of the review's advisory panel · Adult social care & reform · 27 Aug 2026 · Government’s top welfare official to step down ↗

Source references

1. Pressure grows on DWP over ‘misleading’ response to carer’s allowance scandaltheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
2. Government’s top welfare official to step downtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026

Contact & links

• Staff pagehttps://sheffield.ac.uk/spir/people/academic/sue-yeandle-obe
• Websitehttps://centreforcare.ac.uk/team/sue-yeandle/
• Press office emailspir@sheffield.ac.ukpublished here ↗

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