ALT Understanding and Preventing Peer-on-Peer Abuse: From Awareness to Action. Meet our Chair: Yvonne Roberts, Journalist, Solace Ambassador. Photo of Yvonne, a woman with grey hair, red lipstick and red nail varnish, wearing a black top, smiling softly and looking to the left.

ALT Yvonne Roberts is an award-winning journalist who has worked in current affairs, television, radio, magazines and newspapers. The former Chief leader writer of The Observer, she has written four novels and three non-fiction books on feminism and relationships. In 2016, she became the University of Sussex’s first political writer in residence, awarded an honorary doctorate. A former trustee and chair of Women in Prison, she recently worked with the Femicide Census on a two year campaign in The Observer to better tackle violence against women and girls including femicide. She has investigated and reported on women’s rights, domestic abuse and male violence for over forty years.