Yvonne Salmon's research and teaching concern the interaction between law, behavioural economics, literature, visual culture and film. Her current research concerns the representation of minorities in law, literature and film, other projects concern comparing solutions to similar problems across legal systems. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. She chairs the Alchemical Landscape project at CRASSH and the Cambridge University Counterculture Research Group among other roles. Past roles include working for the International Committee of the Red Cross and on international law cases.