Modern Slavery PEC

About us

The Modern Slavery PEC was created to enhance understanding of modern slavery and transform the effectiveness of laws and policies designed to address it.

New funding call

Call for applications for funding for research on understanding and addressing modern slavery with data science methods

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Our research areas

Preventing modern slavery

Understanding survivor needs and enhancing victim support

Modern slavery in business supply chains

The effectiveness of legal enforcement measures

Impact of Covid-19

Our strategy

The strategy for the Modern Slavery PEC 2021-24.

Latest

The river of life for a survivor: from dependency to agency

A blog by person with lived experience of modern slavery on meaningful engagement in research.

Published: 28th July 2022

Podcast

How to research modern slavery better: partnerships between academics and NGOs

Recording of the event from 18 July on building equitable partnerships between academics and NGOs in modern slavery research

Published: 3rd August 2022

Blog

Three reflections on building research partnerships between academics and NGOs

What have we learned from our work and the work of our funded projects about building research partnerships between academics and NGOs? Blog by Partnerships Manager Owain Johnstone.

Published: 25th July 2022

Latest tweets

@SlaveryPEC

It's International Youth Day! We must listen to young people when designing laws & policies to protect them @pehynes spoke to us about working with young survivors to identify important outcomes for them with @ECPATUK & @uniofbeds Listen from 20:42 👇 https://t.co/jJIZFSY71A

@SlaveryPEC

For context, @SlaveryPEC research found #forcedlabour issues across the sector of rubber glove production in Malaysia 👇 https://t.co/CCpYRb3n7w https://t.co/RPFrePLWtw

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We strive for a world where people are protected from modern slavery by effective, evidence-based policies.

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