Modern Slavery PEC podcast
11 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago -The podcast from the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre is where we discuss evidence and research to support good law and policy to protect people from modern slavery. We talk to researchers about evidence they uncover in their research. We want to find out what practical impact on policies, laws and practice our research can have, and in turn what impact it can have on real people’s lives.
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Transformative potential of meaningful engagement of lived experience
December 15, 2023 15:25 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBHow can we co-create research to better align with the needs and interests of people with lived experience so that they can lead and direct it? And how can better we involve people with lived experience in the wider work addressing modern slavery? The Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence (Modern Slavery PEC) has published research providing unique insights into the transformative potential of ethically and equitably engaging with people with lived experiences of modern slaver...
Why do modern slavery survivors end up in prisons?
December 12, 2023 21:13 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MBRecording of a Modern Slavery PEC lunchtime seminar, with Dr Marija Jovanovic from the University of Essex talking about the Identification and support of people with lived experience of modern slavery in prisons in the UK.
Modern slavery and the procurement of medical supplies in Malaysia
November 16, 2023 09:32 - 22 minutes - 16.2 MBModern slavery and the procurement of medical supplies in Malaysia, Prof Alex Hughes, University of Newcastle. Recording of a Modern Slavery PEC lunchtime seminar, a series of events designed to promote modern slavery research in an accessible way to everyone. Check out the lunchtime seminar series and sign up to the next one on the Modern Slavevry PEC website at https://modernslaverypec.org/latest/lunchtime-seminars-series.
How to research modern slavery better: improving equality, diversity and inclusion
August 01, 2023 11:36 - 1 hour - 73.1 MBRecording of the event from 17 July held at St. Mary’s University Twickenham to launch the research that the Modern Slavery PEC commissioned to understand the current challenges around equality, diversity and inclusion in modern slavery research and to develop recommendations to improve it. It includes a short introduction from the lead researcher in this project Debbie Ariyo from AFRUCA Safeguarding Children, then a bit of background to our thinking behind funding this research from Izzy T...
Smaller NGOs in modern slavery research
February 09, 2023 11:01 - 53 minutes - 39.8 MBRecording of the event held on 30th January 2023, organised by the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (Modern Slavery PEC) on building capacity of smaller NGOs to partner on academic research projects. It's the second event of our series 'How to research modern slavery better', bringing together people from the anti-slavery sector and beyond to talk and learn from each other on ways of doing research better. We’ve heard from smaller NGOs that they would like to take...
How to meaningfully engage people with lived experience of modern slavery in programmes and policies?
November 28, 2022 11:41 - 40 minutes - 37.7 MBModern Slavery PEC research found that meaningful engagement of people with lived experience of modern slavery in policies and programmes makes them more effective in addressing them. On this episode of the Modern Slavery PEC podcast we talk meaningful engagement of people with lived experience of modern slavery with two researchers led the research: Dr Wendy Asquith from the Centre for the Study of International Slavery at the University of Liverpool and the Modern Slavery PEC Research Fel...
Forced labour import bans
October 03, 2022 10:40 - 31 minutes - 26.8 MBOn 14 September 2022, the European Commission published a proposal to prohibit products made with forced labour on the EU market. So, in this episode of the Modern Slavery PEC podcast we’re talking forced labour import bans. In the first part we’re talking specifically about the EU proposal to Sofia Gonzalez de Aguinaga from the Bingham Centre, who is a Modern Slavery PEC research fellow focusing on business supply chains. For the second part, we invited our colleague from the Modern Slave...
How to research modern slavery better: partnerships between academics and NGOs
August 03, 2022 15:09 - 49 minutes - 33.1 MBRecording of the event held on 18 July 2022, organised by the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre on building equitable partnerships between academics and NGOs in modern slavery research. It's the first event of a new series of events 'How to research modern slavery better', bringing together people from the anti-slavery sector and beyond to talk and learn from each other on ways of doing research better. We invited speakers from two projects funded by the Modern Sla...
How can we improve equality, diversity and inclusion in modern slavery research?
June 28, 2022 09:11 - 32 minutes - 32.2 MBOn this episode of the Modern Slavery PEC podcast we're discussing the lack of diversity in modern slavery research, what we need to do to improve it, as well as our own Modern Slavery PEC's strategy to change it. In the first part of the podcast we're discussing a situation in the wider modern slavery sector with Debbie Ariyo from AFRUCA, whose work on improving diversity in the modern slavery sector has led to founding BASNET, the UK BME Anti-Slavery Network. In the second part, we're ...
Anti-Slavery Day - listening to people with lived experience
October 18, 2021 00:45 - 36 minutes - 36.9 MBFor Anti-Slavery Day we are talking about the importance of listening to people with lived experience of modern slavery. Developing new evidence that draws directly from lived experience of survivors is key to improving the policies designed to address modern slavery. But what does it mean to listen to survivors of modern slavery? What does it mean to meaningfully include them in research and policy? We're talking with Prof Caroline Bradbury-Jones and Dr Minh Dang about their work on ment...
How to engage consumers in addressing modern slavery
October 12, 2021 13:12 - 31 minutes - 25.9 MBIn the first episode of the Modern Slavery PEC podcast we’re talking about consumers and their role in addressing modern slavery. We’re discussing the Modern Slavery PEC report entitled ‘Addressing consumer awareness and (in)action towards modern slavery” with their authors Dr Michal Carrington from the University of Melbourne, Professor Andreas Chatzidakis from Royal Holloway University of London and Professor Deirdre Shaw from the University of Glasgow. Their research analyses how consume...