Press releases

A team of leading environmental experts, spearheaded by the University of Nottingham, have warned that the current war on plastic is detracting from the bigger threats to the environment.

Anti-slavery practitioners are warning that they have seen an increasing number of exploitation cases being reported during the pandemic.

Research by the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab has identified that slavery and human trafficking are present in 90 per cent of modern wars.

A new study by the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab has found a link between employment at Outland Denim's manufacturing facilities in Cambodia and a 'freedom dividend' for formerly enslaved young women and their peers.

Working-class women have borne the brunt of cuts to working hours as employers struggle to ride out the pandemic, according to new findings published today by social inequality researchers.

A new study by the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab, the Freedom Fund and Praxis has found that access to decent employment, education and knowledge of labour rights are critical for survivors to secure long-term freedom from trafficking.

Displaced people living in temporary settlements in Zimbabwe are to get help to protect themselves against COVID-19 in a new project led by education and sociology experts at the University of Nottingham.

An expert in penal reform at the University of Nottingham has won £1.3m in European Research Council funding to develop the first ever model of criminal justice detention regulation, which could help to tackle the current prison crisis in England and Wales.

Professor Ken Starkey has been awarded the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award, from the British Academy of Management (BAM) at this year’s BAM2020 Conference.

Researchers from Western University, Canada and the University of Nottingham, UK, are leading a new $100,000 study into teenage vaping in Canada, where high schoolers will be appointed as co-researchers to the project.