An ESRC funded research project at the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds
Distinctive or Professionalised? Understanding the Postsecular in Faith-Based Responses to Trafficking, Forced Labour and Slavery in the UK A recording of the seminar can be found here. In this seminar we present findings from an ESRC funded research project that examined the role of faith actors in the UK in addressing modern slavery and human…
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Our article discussing how we can understand the roles of faith based organisations in anti-trafficking has been published open access in the journal Sociology. In the article, we draw on a mapping of modern slavery organisations’ faith or secular identities in their public communications, interviews, and analysis of how the websites of key faith based…
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We are pleased to launch our initial findings report ‘Faith responses to modern slavery’ at our conference in Sheffield, Friday 24 January 2020. The report argues that there is no one ‘Christian response’ to modern slavery, the picture is complex. A mapping of anti-modern slavery organisations and parliamentary debates reveals that faith actors and faith-based…
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Joanna Ewart-James, Executive Director, Freedom United We rely upon strong stories and eye-catching images when writing about modern slavery. Raising awareness of the issues and the prevalence of modern slavery is essential, but so often, as survivors of slavery tell us, the images and language used to tell these stories do not reflect them accurately…
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In this guest blog, Dr Yvonne Zimmerman, Methodist Theological School of Ohio and author of ‘Other dreams of freedom: religion, sex, and human trafficking‘ gives us a preview of her keynote at our conference on 24 January 2020 in Sheffield, UK. I was a graduate student when the issue of modern slavery, also called human…
Read MoreRights, dignity and religion: responding to ‘modern slavery’ St Mary’s Conference Centre, Sheffield, UK, Friday 24 January 2020 The UK Modern Slavery Act 2015, and similar legislation being pushed forward in many countries of the world, has led to a rapid expansion of responses to severe exploitation in recent years. This includes growth of…
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As we draw to a close on our extensive field work of the past two and a half years, we are taking stock of our progress in our quest to understand and explore the role of faith in shaping responses to anti-trafficking. Our focus has been on collecting data across three terrains of anti-trafficking practice: service…
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RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Job Reference Number: UOS022062 Contract Type: Fixed-term from 6 May 2019 until 31 March 2020 Department: Sociological Studies Salary: Grade 7, £31,302 – £39,609 per annum Closing Date: 23rd April 2019 Summary: Are you interested in working for a world top 100 University? The Department of Sociological Studies has a major international reputation for excellence in research…
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We are excited to announce that ‘Unhidden in Plain Sight‘ will be exhibited in the Sheffield Winter Garden 20-30 September 2018. We previously posted here about our project funded by the Festival of the Mind, to work with photographer Jeremy Abrahams, and anti-trafficking organisations Ashiana, City Hearts and Snowdrop. The project has undergone a name…
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Anti-trafficking imagery is designed to be troubling and arresting. Images used in anti-modern slavery campaigns and communications are hugely dominated by depictions of chains or ropes, or people with exposed flesh and marked skin. Dominant anti-trafficking images too often objectify and victimise the people the organisations using them seek to support. This risks ‘secondary exploitation’…
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