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Achievement in Fundamental Movement Skills, Spatial Abilities, and Mathematics among Lower Key Stage 2 Children (2023)
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Scott, J., Jay, T., & Spray, C. (2023). Achievement in Fundamental Movement Skills, Spatial Abilities, and Mathematics among Lower Key Stage 2 Children. Journal of Intelligence, 11(5), Article 87. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11050087

Research has demonstrated links between sport and mathematics learning, and their relationship with spatial abilities in children. This study explored the association between the development of fundamental movement skills (FMS) and mathematics achiev... Read More about Achievement in Fundamental Movement Skills, Spatial Abilities, and Mathematics among Lower Key Stage 2 Children.

The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study (2023)
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Such, E., Gardner, A., Dang, M., Wright, N., Bravo-Balsa, L., Brotherton, V., …Trodd, Z. (in press). The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study. Journal of Human Trafficking, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2023.2194760

The COVID-19 pandemic has considerably affected global economies and societies, exacerbating existing social inequalities. This “syndemic” pandemic has placed people and communities affected by modern slavery and human trafficking at elevated risk of... Read More about The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study.

Galvanizing Local Anti-Trafficking Partnership Work Using Intelligence: Profiling the Problem and Building Resilience (2023)
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Rinaldi-Semione, J., & Brewster, B. (2023). Galvanizing Local Anti-Trafficking Partnership Work Using Intelligence: Profiling the Problem and Building Resilience. Societies, 13(3), Article 61. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13030061

Prior research has evidenced the importance of collaboration and multi-agency partnership work in responding to human trafficking in both the UK and US. Three previous key studies are synthesized in this paper. We situate multi-agency anti-traffickin... Read More about Galvanizing Local Anti-Trafficking Partnership Work Using Intelligence: Profiling the Problem and Building Resilience.

Fishery improvement projects: A voluntary, corporate “tool” not fit for the purpose of mitigating labour abuses and guaranteeing labour rights for workers (2022)
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Williams, C., & Decker Sparks, J. L. (2023). Fishery improvement projects: A voluntary, corporate “tool” not fit for the purpose of mitigating labour abuses and guaranteeing labour rights for workers. Marine Policy, 147, Article 105340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105340

The recent development of a Human Rights and Social Responsibility Policy for fishery improvement projects (FIPs) has accelerated industry and NGO-led initiatives to address human and labour rights violations in seafood supply chains through FIPs. Ho... Read More about Fishery improvement projects: A voluntary, corporate “tool” not fit for the purpose of mitigating labour abuses and guaranteeing labour rights for workers.

"I bought you. You are my wife": "Modern Slavery" and Forced Marriage (2022)
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McCabe, H., & Eglen, L. (in press). "I bought you. You are my wife": "Modern Slavery" and Forced Marriage. Journal of Human Trafficking, https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2022.2096366

Forced marriage is identified as a serious global challenge and has recently been linked to modern slavery. In this article we seek to understand how slavery, institutions and practices similar to slavery, and other forms of exploitation are linked t... Read More about "I bought you. You are my wife": "Modern Slavery" and Forced Marriage.

Towards a model of port-based resilience against fisher labour exploitation (2022)
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Phelan, K., Gardner, A., Selig, E. R., & Sparks, J. L. D. (2022). Towards a model of port-based resilience against fisher labour exploitation. Marine Policy, 142, Article 105108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105108

Fishers have pronounced vulnerabilities to labour exploitation and modern slavery. Regulatory efforts to mitigate fisher labour exploitation through domestic modern slavery legislation, and through the ratification and implementation of The Internati... Read More about Towards a model of port-based resilience against fisher labour exploitation.

The unequal impact of Covid‐19 on the lives and rights of the children of modern slavery survivors, children in exploitation and children at risk of entering exploitation (2022)
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Jiménez, E., Brotherton, V., Gardner, A., Wright, N., Browne, H., Esiovwa, N., …Trodd, Z. (2023). The unequal impact of Covid‐19 on the lives and rights of the children of modern slavery survivors, children in exploitation and children at risk of entering exploitation. Children & Society, 37(1), 216-234. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12572

This article discusses the unequal impact of Covid-19 on the lives of the children of survivors of modern slavery, child victims of exploitation and children at risk of exploitation in the UK. It draws on research that has analysed the risks and impa... Read More about The unequal impact of Covid‐19 on the lives and rights of the children of modern slavery survivors, children in exploitation and children at risk of entering exploitation.

Revealing global risks of labor abuse and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (2022)
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Selig, E. R., Nakayama, S., Wabnitz, C. C. C., Österblom, H., Spijkers, J., Miller, N. A., …Decker Sparks, J. L. (2022). Revealing global risks of labor abuse and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 1612. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28916-2

Labor abuse on fishing vessels and illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing violate human rights, jeopardize food security, and deprive governments of revenues. We applied a multi-method approach, combining new empirical data with satellite... Read More about Revealing global risks of labor abuse and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.

Worker-less social responsibility: How the proliferation of voluntary labour governance tools in seafood marginalise the workers they claim to protect (2022)
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Decker Sparks, J. L., Matthews, L., Cárdenas, D., & Williams, C. (2022). Worker-less social responsibility: How the proliferation of voluntary labour governance tools in seafood marginalise the workers they claim to protect. Marine Policy, 139, Article 105044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105044

In response to labour and human rights violations onboard fishing vessels, the private sector is increasingly relying on market-based solutions in the form of voluntary, non-governmental social governance tools to improve working conditions for fishe... Read More about Worker-less social responsibility: How the proliferation of voluntary labour governance tools in seafood marginalise the workers they claim to protect.

Paradoxical migrant allyship: the adoption of a disciplinary model of ‘compulsory integration’ for asylum seekers in Italy (2022)
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Lumley-Sapanski, A., & Dotsey, S. (2022). Paradoxical migrant allyship: the adoption of a disciplinary model of ‘compulsory integration’ for asylum seekers in Italy. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(13), 2965-2984. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2022.2042221

Recent scholarship has focused extensively on the deployment of technologies of security as a tactic of migration governance. The analyses have largely been on the effect of prioritising state security over migrant rights and the subsequent impact on... Read More about Paradoxical migrant allyship: the adoption of a disciplinary model of ‘compulsory integration’ for asylum seekers in Italy.