Nominations for the Faculty of Social Sciences

Anterior cruciate ligament rupture is a sports injury that occurs up to six times more frequently in females than males. It has detrimental impacts on short- and long-term physical activity levels and musculoskeletal health.

Attempts to explain and remedy this disparity have focused on sex-based characteristics such as female anatomy, physiology and hormones,

The team developed a novel ‘gendered environmental approach’ published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine which has moved the conversation from a primary concern with women’s biology to an interest in environmental factors such as access to and experiences with sport and training.

It has been used by Football Australia and FIFPRO in their injury prevention and workload policies and we have delivered invited presentations to elite sport organisations, including the European Club Association, Crystal Palace FC and the UK sports institute.

Project team

University of Nottingham

Dr Stephanie Coen​

University of Manitoba, Canada​

Dr Joanne Parsons ​

University of Bath​

Dr Sheree Bekker

We have centred the survivor voice in work to end modern slavery including human trafficking and forced marriage, as well as other forms of violence against women and girls.

This has involved:

• supporting the creation of Azadi, a new, survivor-led NGO in Kenya
• co-developing, with survivors, new tools and methods for research and activism
• advising the Home Affairs Select Committee on ethically gathering evidence from survivors
• co-developing new definitions of Honour-Based Abuse
• developing understandings of forced marriage through survivor narratives.

We have translated these into educational tools and engaged the expertise of front-line staff to better understand prevalence, practice and the impact of government policy.

This work has impacted survivors through development of activism and survivor support organisations; third sector organisations through policy and practice via co-developed research; local government knowledge and practice via training programmes; and the public through exhibitions and education.

Project team

University of Nottingham team​

• Dr Helen McCabe
• Dr Lauren Eglen
• Dr Andrea Nicholson​

University of Birmingham

• Rowland Seymour​
• Liverpool John Moores University
• Hannah Baumeister ​
• Further contributors
• Karma Nivana, Azadi (Kenya)

The UN and 193 countries set the goal of ending modern slavery by 2030.

But if you can’t see a problem, you can’t generate solutions.

Pixel by pixel, acre by acre, we have shone a light into modern slavery's darkest corners: the most hidden industries and prevalent forms.

Since 2017 we have delivered the world’s first comprehensive geospatial analyses of modern slavery sites, mapping slavery’s forms and locations, extent and root causes, and established that nearly half of all the world’s slavery can be seen from space.

This work has fast-tracked interventions for multiple governments, intergovernmental groups and NGOs.

More people have come to freedom because the team has shown where and why slavery occurs and how best to eradicate it.

Launched during the 50th anniversary of the Space Race, this is the anti-slavery moon-shot.

Project team

• Professor Doreen Boyd

• Dr Bethany Jackson

• Dr Edgar Rodríguez-Huerta

• Albert Nyarko-Agyei

• Dr. Renoy Girindran​

• Cristina Vrinceanu

• Professor Giles Foody