Dr Yvonne McFadden is a Lecturer in History and Co-Director of the Scottish Oral History Centre, University of Strathclyde. Her main interests are in oral histories of home, family, gender and work. Her recent research focused on the impact of deindustrialisation on communities, especially women and children. Her recent project, with Prof Arthur McIvor, collected stories from mining communities in East Ayrshire, Scotland. This project focused on the gendered experiences of home and community throughout the process of deindustrialisation. The book from the project ‘Memory, Mining and Landscape: voices from the Ayrshire Communities’ was released in February 2024 and had an accompanying exhibition which was in East Ayrshire and the National Mining Museum of Scotland.
