Assistant Professor Yvonne Su, from the Department of Equity Studies, has published work featured in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. The article entitled, Becoming the ideal woman-of-colour academic for everyone but me, examines how academia tokenizes women of colour, arguing that inclusion within academic institutions is more about optics than substantial change. She also looks at how women of colour are put in a position to “fix” inequities within academic settings while being denied the positions of authority needed to make a substantial change.
Yvonne Su is a specialist in forced migration, climate change-induced displacement and queer migration. She has worked extensively with vulnerable communities in Southeast Asia and Latin America and the Caribbeans including refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, trans sex workers, indigenous communities and 2SLGBTQIA+ folks.