Her PhD, awarded by the University of Edinburgh in 2006, is published by Kalliope paperbacks under the title, Yvonne Vera: The Voice of Cloth (2008).
She is a member of the editorial boards of TEXTILE: the journal of cloth & culture (Taylor & Francis)[1][3] and Craft Research (Intellect).
[4] As a writer, she has published Warp and Weft: Woven Textiles in Fashion, Art and Interiors (2012) and Yvonne Vera: The Voice of Cloth (2008), and edited three books.
[5][6] The Cultural Threads book inspired Dutch curator Liza Swaving’s exhibition of the same name held at the TextielMuseum, Tilburg, the Netherlands (24 November – 12 May 2019).
2020–2023 Rita Bolland Fellowship at the Research Centre for Material Culture, the Netherlands [9] Universidad de Sevilla, Spain (2023),[10] Nordic Textile Art Network, Reykjavik, Iceland (2019),[11] Zeitz MOCCA, Cape Town, South Africa (2018),[12] University of British Columbia, Canada (2017),[1] ObjectSpace, New Zealand (2016),[13] Design Canberra Festival, Australia (2015), SOFA Chicago New Voices Lecture (2012),[14] Cranbrook Academy of Art (2012)[15] INIVA, London (2009).