All Outputs (12)

The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study (2023)
Journal Article

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.

Towards a model of port-based resilience against fisher labour exploitation (2022)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

Free Soil, Free Produce, Free Communities (2021)
Book Chapter

Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK’s Hand Car Wash Sector (2021)
Book Chapter

Hand car washing, the process of washing a vehicle by hand, is a relatively new business activity in the United Kingdom (UK). Prior to 2004, hand car washes (HCWs) were virtually non-existent (Clark & Colling, 2018). However, it is estimated that bet... Read More about Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK’s Hand Car Wash Sector.

Building Slavery-free Communities: A Resilience Framework (2020)
Journal Article

There is growing interest in the use of community-based approaches to address the causes of modern slavery and the related goal of building anti-slavery 'resilience'. However, the concept of resilience is often poorly understood and applied without a... Read More about Building Slavery-free Communities: A Resilience Framework.

Introducing the Slave Next Door (2019)
Journal Article

Past studies have indicated that the British public consider human trafficking to be remote from their personal experiences. However, an increase in local press reporting, alongside the emergence of locally co-ordinated anti-modern slavery campaigns,... Read More about Introducing the Slave Next Door.

An idea whose time has come? : modern slavery, multiple streams approach and multi-layer policy implementation (2018)
Journal Article

This article uses Kingdon’s multiple streams approach to analyse the implementation gap between anti-slavery legislation and front-line practice, with particular reference to emerging challenges in the implementation of the UK’s 2015 Modern Slavery... Read More about An idea whose time has come? : modern slavery, multiple streams approach and multi-layer policy implementation.

Lipstick on a pig?: appreciative inquiry in a context of austerity (2018)
Book Chapter

This chapter reflects on the implications of constructing research which aims to be critical, relational and transformative in organisations under financial pressure due to austerity. It finds that apreciative inquiry can assist in establishing coll... Read More about Lipstick on a pig?: appreciative inquiry in a context of austerity.

Big change, little change?: punctuation increments and multi-layer institutional change for English local authorities under austerity (2017)
Journal Article

This paper draws on new institutionalist theories to consider how we might characterise the process and outcomes of change occurring in English local government as a result of the UK’s austerity policies. It uses national and local empirical data to... Read More about Big change, little change?: punctuation increments and multi-layer institutional change for English local authorities under austerity.

Negotiating Austerity and Local Traditions (2016)
Book Chapter

Despite 30% cuts in English local government budgets since 2010, alongside rising demands for services, there has been little outward sign of crisis. On the contrary, political protest has been muted, public satisfaction remains steady and no local... Read More about Negotiating Austerity and Local Traditions.

Local governance under the Conservatives: super-austerity, devolution and the ‘smarter state’ (2016)
Journal Article

Through their ambitious devolution programme, the Conservatives show a new assertiveness in relation to restructuring the local state, in contrast to the laissez-faire approach of the previous Coalition government. Although the Coalition piloted devo... Read More about Local governance under the Conservatives: super-austerity, devolution and the ‘smarter state’.