Yao's filmography was the subject of "Filmed Portraits: an Examination of Themes and the Pictorial Techniques of Yao Ramesar, from his short film series 'People'", an 87-page work by Pamela Hosein (University of the West Indies), 1998 and a subsequent MPhil thesis by the same author completed in 2008.
2006 saw the completion of a PhD thesis on Ramesar's work entitled Being, Consciousness and Time: Phenomenology and the Videos of Robert Yao Ramesar (G.