Rights Lab Visiting Professor in Migration, Business and Society

Email: tina.davis@nottingham.ac.uk

Dr. Tina Davis is part of our Rights Lab Business and Economies Programme, and works on identifying risks and patterns of forced and child labour, and developing responses.

Her research focuses on migration, labour exploitation, and business supply chains, including access to remedy for exploited migrant workers; recruitment practices and the exploitation of migrant workers; and climate change, forced migration and child labour in business supply chains. She works with business on research and practitioner guidelines that can impact supply chain practices in food production, produced the first empirical research on forced labour in Australia, and was part of a core advocacy group that was instrumental to the passage of the Australian Modern Slavery Act.

She also worked to help pass Norway's human rights due diligence law, the Transparency Act, and advised the Norwegian government on its design, as well as a global mapping for the Norwegian government with recommendations as part of its design for an international development programme tackling modern slavery. An award-winning documentary-maker, she directed the film Modern Slavery (now on Netflix), is a researcher and special advisor for the Coretta and Martin Luther King Institute for Peace in Norway, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Modern Slavery, and an inductee of the Martin Luther King Jr. Board of Sponsors at Morehouse College in Atlanta, USA. She co-edited the book, Slavery and Its Consequences: Racism, Inequity and Exclusion in the USA.