Carers UK has worked with Professor Sue Yeandle for nearly 20 years and we are delighted to see that she has been appointed an OBE in the King's Birthday Honours List. We warmly congratulate her on her honour. 

A leading authority on unpaid carers, Sue led the Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities (CIRCLE) in the University's Faculty of Social Sciences from 2014-2023. 

Emily Holzhausen CBE, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at Carers UK, said: 

"Sue has helped to transform the evidence and understanding of caring in many different ways, providing us with robust academic evidence that has translated closely into practice to help provide better support for carers and which has helped us to campaign for change. 

"Professor Yeandle first started working with Carers UK in 2002 and was part of our European-funded Action for Carers and Employment (ACE Nationl) project. It was a large-scale and groundbreaking piece of work, which looked at the conditions for employment for unpaid carers, including the value of social care in helping to juggle work and care. 

"Whilst working on this project with Carers UK, Sue updated and published a new figure for the value of carers' support and, for the first time, was able to break it down by local authority, providing valuable insight for every local authority, local carers' organisations and carers. She went on to deliver reports with and for Carers UK, delivering robust data on many different aspects of diversity. We have collaborated on many exciting pieces of work, helping to broaden the understanding of caring. Will I care: The likelihood of being a carer in adult life (2019) is a good example of this, looking at the probability of caring. 

"As part of our work together, Professor Yeandle took forward and championed a strong carers and employment research evidence base from both carers and employers. Her work has driven greater understanding of the challenges faced by unpaid carers and recognition of carers' needs, not just here in the UK, but across the globe."