Rights Lab

The University of Nottingham's Rights Lab is the largest group of modern slavery researchers, and home to many leading modern slavery experts. The Rights Lab has four research programmes: Measurement and Geographies; Health and Communities; Law and Policy; and Business and Economies. Through these programmes, the Rights Lab delivers new and cutting-edge research that provides rigorous data, evidence, and discoveries for global anti-slavery efforts. The Rights Lab produce academic publications, reports, and briefings on a broad range of relevant topics, such as modern slavery prevalence estimations, the impact of immigration policies on human trafficking, regulation and governance gaps in the detection of labour exploitation, methods for preventing exploitation, and more. They produce video case studies, podcasts, toolkits, maps, and more, and also provide services for developing strategic responses to modern slavery risk, deep analysis and risk assessments, and best practice recommendations.