Knowledge Exchange and Impact Awards 2024
Posted on Monday 5th February 2024
Delighted to see the work in the Rights Lab acknowledged at the University of Nottingham Knowledge Exchange and Impact Awards 2024.
WINNING PROJECT TEAM:
“Slavery from Space: Using Satellites for Human Rights and Sustainable Development” earned Prof Doreen Boyd and the project team Bethany Jackson, Edgar Rodríguez-Huerta, Albert Nyarko-Agyei, Dr Renoy Girindran, PhD(UK), Cristina Vrinceanu and Prof Giles Foody the Faculty of Social Sciences Award. Presented by the Faculty Dean Professor Jeremy Gregory.
Pixel by pixel, acre by acre, we have shone a light into modern slavery's darkest corner: the most hidden industries and prevalent forms.
The team delivered the world's first 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.
The 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.
⭐ Dr Helen McCabe, Andrea Nicholson and Lauren Eglen with the project "Putting the survivor voice a the heart of anti-slavery activism" was also a finalist in the same project category.
⭐ We also had "Rising Star" shortlisted nominations for Dr Bethany Jackson and Dr Lauren Eglen.
Great night and well done everyone.
