About Me
Kieran Yates is a London-based journalist, broadcaster and editor who has been writing about culture, technology and politics for over 10 years. She’s written everywhere from The Guardian, FADER, VICE, The Independent and beyond, had an acclaimed monthly column at VICE titled ‘British Values’, was nominated for Culture Writer of the Year in 2016 and regularly host events and panels discussing issues across music, politics, and news. Kieran is also a regular host, most recently hosting a discussion at the Southbank’s WOW festival discussing race, interviewing Mohsin Hamid and Riz Ahmed at the London Literature Festival, and hosting discussions around decolonising architecture for RIBA.
She works frequently as a broadcaster at the BBC and her most recent documentary on Radio 4, ‘Estate Music’, explores the link between music, immigrant communities in the UK and social housing. Kieran is a regular presenter of the late-night debate show on BBC Asian Network, appears regularly on Front Row, Channel 4 News, and BBC 5Live as a reporter and critic, and in 2016 was nominated for an Asian Media Award for Best Investigation for her documentary Muslim Drag Queens. Her production credits span across Channel 4 to Sky Arts. She was the co-presenter of the award-winning Guardian Music Weekly podcast for a number of years, and most recently, hosted a series of films for Vice.
Kieran also recently contributed to the award-winning book of essays, ‘The Good Immigrant’ in 2017 about immigrant stories in the UK, where she wrote about ‘Going Home’. In 2015 she started a fanzine called ‘British Values’, a political satire and culture magazine that celebrates immigrant communities in the UK. She is the co-author of ‘Generation Vexed: What the English riots didn’t tell us about your nation’s youth’ published by Random House in 2011, and was part of The Guardian’s ‘My Favourite Album’ eBook in 2011.
Kieran is also a copywriter, researcher and tutor, and heads up an annual summer school session as a Journalist tutor at Plumcroft Primary School, has a regular stint as a tutor for the BRITS Trainee Academy. She has previously worked for the Amy Winehouse Foundation as a tutor, as a freelance Journalism lecturer for the London College of Communications. She is currently a visiting lecturer teaching Creative Writing at the University of Westminster.
Kieran’s debut book about home and the housing crisis titled ‘All The Houses I’ve Lived In’, published by Simon and Schuster, is out now.
