The Antislavery Usable Past
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Nottingham
Department Name: Sch of Politics & International Relation
Abstract
There are approximately 30 million slaves alive today. Around the world, including in the UK, these disposable people are held against their will, trapped in a situation of control such as a person might control a thing, and forced to work for no pay. This number is more than at any point in history and more people than were transported from Africa to the Western Hemisphere during the entirety of the Atlantic slave trade. It is a number greater than the population of Australia and almost seven times greater than the population of Ireland. It includes around 1.1 million enslaved people in Europe. Over the past 15 years, a growing movement against this new global slavery has achieved many successes, including new legislation, a small number of prosecutions, changes to company supply-chains, and increased public awareness. But it is repeating mistakes of the past. Around the world, it starts from scratch rather than learning from earlier antislavery successes and failures. Focused on urgent liberations and prosecutions, antislavery workers operate within short time frames and rarely draw on the long history of antislavery successes, failures, experiments and strategies. At the same time, the public reads about shocking cases of women enslaved for 30 years in London, children enslaved in rural cannabis factories, and the large number of slaves who mine the conflict minerals used to make our mobile phones and laptops. For many of us, this presence of slavery confounds our understanding of history: wasn't slavery brought to an end? Weren't the slaves emancipated? This confusion extends beyond the public to politicians, policy makers, human rights groups, and educators. Official responses to slavery cases often reflect this confusion, expressing more emotional outrage than clear thinking.
However, responding to recently-expressed interest by antislavery groups and policy makers, including the recent appeal by Luis C. DeBaca (Ambassador in the State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons) for scholars to translate the lessons of abolitionism for contemporary use, our project seeks to provide this movement with a usable past of antislavery examples and methods. We will bring to the present the important lessons from antislavery movements and policies of the past, and help translate those lessons into effective tools for policy makers, civil society, and citizens. As we identify, theorise and embed antislavery as a protest memory for contemporary abolitionism in this way, we will also emphasise that what earlier antislavery generations achieved was harder than what we face today, we don't have to repeat the mistakes of past movements, the voices of survivors are the best signposts to where we should be going next, and the lessons of past antislavery movements offer a way to 'care for the future'.
Throughout the project and across all its strands, we offer in the face of a mammoth task-ending the enslavement of 30 million people-a reminder of past antislavery achievements. For example, on the eve of the American Revolution, few Americans could envision a world in which slavery did not exist. Yet 100 years later, slavery did become illegal in the United States. This was an achievement that stemmed from the collective, varied and ever-evolving protest of countless slaves and abolitionists. Today we have a chance to end slavery, and to do so within our own lifetimes. This will be a watershed for humanity, a moment when we finally reject *the* great lie of history, that some people are sub-human, and embrace instead that great abolitionist truth-the truth that earlier abolitionists tried to teach us-that labour must not be forced and that people are not for sale.
However, responding to recently-expressed interest by antislavery groups and policy makers, including the recent appeal by Luis C. DeBaca (Ambassador in the State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons) for scholars to translate the lessons of abolitionism for contemporary use, our project seeks to provide this movement with a usable past of antislavery examples and methods. We will bring to the present the important lessons from antislavery movements and policies of the past, and help translate those lessons into effective tools for policy makers, civil society, and citizens. As we identify, theorise and embed antislavery as a protest memory for contemporary abolitionism in this way, we will also emphasise that what earlier antislavery generations achieved was harder than what we face today, we don't have to repeat the mistakes of past movements, the voices of survivors are the best signposts to where we should be going next, and the lessons of past antislavery movements offer a way to 'care for the future'.
Throughout the project and across all its strands, we offer in the face of a mammoth task-ending the enslavement of 30 million people-a reminder of past antislavery achievements. For example, on the eve of the American Revolution, few Americans could envision a world in which slavery did not exist. Yet 100 years later, slavery did become illegal in the United States. This was an achievement that stemmed from the collective, varied and ever-evolving protest of countless slaves and abolitionists. Today we have a chance to end slavery, and to do so within our own lifetimes. This will be a watershed for humanity, a moment when we finally reject *the* great lie of history, that some people are sub-human, and embrace instead that great abolitionist truth-the truth that earlier abolitionists tried to teach us-that labour must not be forced and that people are not for sale.
Planned Impact
Over the past 15 years the global antislavery movement has experienced exponential growth. There are now antislavery groups in most countries, ranging from the tiny and suppressed El Hor in Mauritania, to the small but powerful Norwegian Anti-Slavery Society, to the many British and North American campaigning groups each with more than 100,000 members, and the Walk Free campaign with more than 5 million registered supporters worldwide. Altogether there are likely to be 10 million people who think of themselves as antislavery activists. But the growth of this movement masks disorganization, widely different interpretations of the needed work, and a profoundly ahistorical consciousness. Our project will foster critical memory within the movement, reclaiming varied modes of protest from the narrow and nostalgic storyline of antislavery's past. By the end of our project, and during our follow-through year (5), we hope to observe and measure:
1. Early shifts in scholarship toward incorporating contemporary slavery and antislavery into studies of slavery more broadly (which usually end in the late 19th century).
2. Early shifts in scholarship toward debating the ideas of a usable past and protest memory, so that the field of Memory Studies has expanded from its current focus on trauma, memory-as-burden and nostalgia.
3. Changes in how antislavery organisations use imagery, from their current tendency toward sensationalist images of slave passivity and abolitionist paternalism to a liberatory aesthetic of slave rebellion and empowerment.
4. Changes in how antislavery organisations use slaves' voices, from their current tendency to just quote or paraphrase, to placing slave narratives at their heart of the movement: in their campaign materials, in their own strategies (for we believe narratives can be analysed for antislavery ideas and solutions), and even in their leadership structures (where former slaves could take a more central leadership role).
5. The incorporation of several other abolitionist lessons from our seminars and resources into NGO campaigns and approaches.
6. The adoption of the Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines by NGOs and governments as the standard against which to measure the global population of enslaved people and the global phenomena of slavery and trafficking.
7. An increased awareness on the part of policy makers of the lessons of the antislavery past as they confront and address the slavery of the present, as seen in legislation, regulation, and the support of civil society organisations.
8. Shifts in how our heritage partners tackle the topic of slavery, to incorporate more material on contemporary forms in their exhibitions and public programming.
9. The use of our Congo photographs exhibit by local antislavery groups in Congo, as part of their ongoing work against the enslavement of 500,000 people there today.
10. A collection of short films submitted to Unchosen by filmmakers that incorporate history as a result of our work on Unchosen's themed competition series.
11. The creation of sustainable profession-specific networks, for artists, historians and lawyers, each achieving impact in their specific fields.
12. The use of our resources in school teaching.
13. New knowledge and application of the usable past on the part of the antislavery workers who take our MA module.
14. Potential changes in how we will approach the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 2033, based on our documentation and analysis of how Britain commemorated the bicentenary of the ending of the slave trade in 2007 (the limitations and successes of that 2007 bicentenary).
15. Shifts in public knowledge about the antislavery past and present, via our regional public presentations to communities with strong historical links to past slavery and abolitionism.
16. Widespread dissemination of our open education resources and digital archives, via multiple link-backs, page views and downloads.
1. Early shifts in scholarship toward incorporating contemporary slavery and antislavery into studies of slavery more broadly (which usually end in the late 19th century).
2. Early shifts in scholarship toward debating the ideas of a usable past and protest memory, so that the field of Memory Studies has expanded from its current focus on trauma, memory-as-burden and nostalgia.
3. Changes in how antislavery organisations use imagery, from their current tendency toward sensationalist images of slave passivity and abolitionist paternalism to a liberatory aesthetic of slave rebellion and empowerment.
4. Changes in how antislavery organisations use slaves' voices, from their current tendency to just quote or paraphrase, to placing slave narratives at their heart of the movement: in their campaign materials, in their own strategies (for we believe narratives can be analysed for antislavery ideas and solutions), and even in their leadership structures (where former slaves could take a more central leadership role).
5. The incorporation of several other abolitionist lessons from our seminars and resources into NGO campaigns and approaches.
6. The adoption of the Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines by NGOs and governments as the standard against which to measure the global population of enslaved people and the global phenomena of slavery and trafficking.
7. An increased awareness on the part of policy makers of the lessons of the antislavery past as they confront and address the slavery of the present, as seen in legislation, regulation, and the support of civil society organisations.
8. Shifts in how our heritage partners tackle the topic of slavery, to incorporate more material on contemporary forms in their exhibitions and public programming.
9. The use of our Congo photographs exhibit by local antislavery groups in Congo, as part of their ongoing work against the enslavement of 500,000 people there today.
10. A collection of short films submitted to Unchosen by filmmakers that incorporate history as a result of our work on Unchosen's themed competition series.
11. The creation of sustainable profession-specific networks, for artists, historians and lawyers, each achieving impact in their specific fields.
12. The use of our resources in school teaching.
13. New knowledge and application of the usable past on the part of the antislavery workers who take our MA module.
14. Potential changes in how we will approach the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 2033, based on our documentation and analysis of how Britain commemorated the bicentenary of the ending of the slave trade in 2007 (the limitations and successes of that 2007 bicentenary).
15. Shifts in public knowledge about the antislavery past and present, via our regional public presentations to communities with strong historical links to past slavery and abolitionism.
16. Widespread dissemination of our open education resources and digital archives, via multiple link-backs, page views and downloads.
Organisations
- University of Nottingham (Lead Research Organisation)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Loyola University Chicago (Collaboration)
- Tougaloo College (Collaboration)
- Yolé! Africa (Collaboration)
- Independent Anti Slavery Commissioner (Collaboration)
- Being Human Festival (Collaboration)
- Museum of African American History (Collaboration)
- African and Caribbean Support Organisation Northern Ireland (Collaboration)
- Historians Against Slavery (Collaboration)
- University of Central Florida (Collaboration)
- Walk Free Foundation (Collaboration)
- International Slavery Museum (Collaboration)
- Freedom Fund UK (Collaboration)
- University of Central Lancashire (Collaboration)
- Yale University (Collaboration)
- Royal Institute of Philosophy (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
- Unchosen (Collaboration)
Publications
Al-Dayel N
(2020)
Not Yet Dead: The Establishment and Regulation of Slavery by the Islamic State
in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
Allain J
(2017)
El Derecho ante las formas contemporáneas de esclavitud
Allain J
(2017)
Contemporary Slavery: Popular Rhetoric and Political Practice,
Allain J
(2019)
The SAGE Handbook of Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery
Allain J
(2016)
Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution, written by Julia Gaffield
in Journal of Global Slavery
Allain J
(2017)
Routledge Handbook of Human Trafficking
Allain J
(2017)
White Slave Traffic in International Law
in Journal of Trafficking and Human Exploitation
Allain J
(2019)
Slavery and Its Obligations Erga Omnes
in The Australian Year Book of International Law
| Title | Co-director of Connected Communities AHRC project, Nottingham |
| Description | Assisted in the creation of Nottingham's first Black History Mural in Forest Fields/Hyson Green (depicts George Africanus.) |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Positive reception from Hyson Green community with discussions over new mural for the area. |
| Title | Contributor to Picturing Frederick Douglass Exhibition, the Museum of African American History, Boston |
| Description | Created exhibition of Frederick Douglass murals to be displayed at the Boston Museum of African American History with interactive touch screen displays for visitors to navigate through Douglass murals around the U.S., providing contextual information for each mural. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Exhibition was extended from ending in July 2017 until December 2017 because of popularity |
| Title | Curator of AHRC-Funded Connected Communities Project at the Utopia Fair Exhibition, Somerset House, London |
| Description | Connected to the AHRC-funded Connected Communities Grant, curated a pop-up exhibition for Somerset House's Utopia Fair in London. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | This pop-up exhibition was later displayed at the Nottingham Contemporary for The October Dialogues Conference, as well as the National Justice Museum, Nottingham for the Journey to Justice exhibition. |
| Title | Making Freedom video for MOOC nominated for the Learning on Screen Awards 2017 (Director Simon Barnett/Producer: Arthur Torrington both of University of Nottingham) |
| Description | Making Freedom is a video lecture from the MOOC course, Ending Slavery and was nominated in the Courseware & Curriculum In-House Award category for a video lecture from the MOOC course, Ending Slavery: ... |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | The film has reached over 9000 people internationally through the MOOC course Ending Slavery that ran on Future Learn in October 2016 and May 2017. |
| Title | Picturing Frederick Douglass |
| Description | An exhibition of 100 original photographs at Boston African American Museum drawn from my book Picturing Frederick Douglass (2015) |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | - Impact update to follow when the exhibition ends in 2017 |
| Title | Slavery, Culture and Collecting |
| Description | The latest display in the London, Sugar and Slavery gallery at the Museum of London Docklands highlights the connection to slavery of some of Britain's oldest cultural organisations. Slavery, culture and collecting follows slave owner and art collector George Hibbert, a prominent member of a large subsection of British society which derived its wealth directly from the slave economy. These figures were often active philanthropists, and are commemorated in memorials for their associations with charitable causes, while their connections to slavery are invisible even today. Hibbert was instrumental in building the West India Docks which now house the Museum of London Docklands. This connection positions the museum as an important place to think about the relationship between slavery and cultural heritage. The wealth generated by slavery was used to create cultural institutions such as museums, universities, art galleries and charities. Advocates of slavery would then use culture in their arguments for the continuing use of enslaved labour, on the grounds that Africans needed the "civilising influence" of Europe. Slavery, culture and collecting is delivered with the support of the Antislavery Usable Past project at the University of Nottingham. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The display contains a short film, as well as objects from the collection to encourage further debate around this challenging issue. |
| URL | https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london-docklands/whats-on/exhibitions/slavery-culture-and-c... |
| Description | The Antislavery Usable Past project explored how past antislavery activism might inform the present. We identified key elements of past antislavery movements that can form a "usable past" for today's movement to end global slavery, including in the areas of visual culture (murals and photography), definitions and concepts, survivor voice and narratives, material culture and heritage, notions of redress for victims, opinion building, historical leadership models, the role of military intervention in antislavery campaigns, and antislavery organisational culture. |
| Exploitation Route | The funding outcomes are now a key part of the UKRI investment in the Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre, of which two of this grant's institutions are part (Nottingham and Hull). |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | http://antislavery.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Antislavery Usable Past researchers received several prestigious awards, including the Queen's Anniversary Prize and a CMG in the Queen's New Year Honours for the PI. Media coverage of the project has included the Telegraph newspaper, BBC Radio, CNN, Al Jazeera, and North Korea Radio. The projec also generated numerous exhibitions and workshops worldwide, including a major exhibition at the Museum of African American History in Boston, and has launched the UK branch of the international organisation Historians Against Slavery. The project has impacted international law, through submissions to international courts, and a submission to the Joint Committee on the UK Draft Modern Slavery Bill that led to the project's involvement in consultations over the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015. The project also has influenced government policy across the world, with the application of one of its techniques by the UK Home Office, the governments of the Netherlands and Spain, and the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. Professor Bales has given evidence to a US Government review, a Cambodian Government review, and an Australian Government review, as the project's outputs were cited in a 2016 United Nations Report. The project has also impacted societal attitudes towards antislavery campaigning, including via its engagement of more than 10,000 learners from 150 countries in the first massive open online course (MOOC) about contemporary slavery. Now preparing for its third run, the course educates participants on the lessons of past abolitionism and asks them to help design a new blueprint for ending slavery by 2030. The course is free, open to anybody, and has been integrated into the professional development requirements of several NGOs and embedded in at least 5 undergraduate courses in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. It was shortlisted for the Learning on Screen Awards 2017. Building on the success of the course, the team has launched the world's first distance MA on contemporary slavery, aimed at training antislavery workers around the world, which includes a dedicated module on the Usable Past. On a European level: Professor Zoe Trodd is an adviser to the NO Project, an NGO based in Europe that campaigns against modern slavery. She worked with its director to refine a new campaign video about slavery in gold-mining, and to make additions to the organisation's Guidelines for Artists documents. Her involvement has influenced and the NGO's practice with an ensuing impact of changed public attitudes the issue of modern slavery. 2022 Follow-on Impact Report: We've been very pleased with the widening circles of impact from this project. Of course, as those circles widen they are harder to trace and document, but that is as it should be, ideas changed and evolved, fundamental scholarship leading to spin-offs, new approaches, new proposals, new insighrs become common knowledge and influence everything from discourse to law, but in ways that are not as visibly linked back to the original project. One of the products of the grant was the book The Anti-Slavery Usable Past: History's Lessons for How We End Slavery Today - a product of many of the collaborators in the project, we published this as a free e-book, and send it out to all known anti-slavery organisations in the world (nearly 3,000) as well as widely distributing it to students, academics, schools, etc etc. The response was strong and appreciative, our only regret is that we could only produce it in English. The ripple effect of those lessons in countries around the workd is not one we could chase and record in detail, but informal responses were strong. Likewise, the various datasets - contemporary slave narratives (VOICES: Narratives by Survivors of Modern Slavery), digital images of slavery in early 20th century Congo (Congo Atrocity Lantern Lecture), and contemporary responses to those early images (Exhibiting the Congo; and Photography and the Congolese Diaspora), the deep archive of images exploring how slavery is portrayed in Museums (Legacies on Display: Slavery in Museums); the only large-scale collection of public anti-slavery murals (Murals Image Collection with Descriptions and Locations), an archive of the local and national events and artifacts around the 1807 Abolition anniversary in 2007 (Remembering 1807), the challenging image collection curated by Congolese youth (Decomposing the Colonial Gaze), the resurrected and preserved early anti-slavery images from the 3rd global anti-slavery movement (Congo Antislavery Visual Culture), and the Alice Seeley Harris Archive - which in the project discovered and restored previously lost or unknown work by this remarkable late-19th century woman human rights photographer. All of these collections enjoy regular 'footfall' and usage. These are then complimented by on-line teaching resources as well as a permanent location for downloading the e-book. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Citation in the Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/HRC/36/43 |
| Description | Consultation with BBC radio documentary |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Zoe Trodd consulted with Snappin' Turtle Productions during their production of a BBC radio documentary about modern slavery, providing case studies of past antislavery figures for use during a segment that set historical and modern voices side by side. The one-hour documentary appeared on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat, titled The UK's Hidden Slaves in October 2016 and was rebroadcast in 2017. |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081mn77 |
| Description | Global Slavery Index quoted by Australian government in calling for their own Modern Slavery Bill |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Invited Participant, Roundtable, Modern Slavery in Supply Chains Reporting Requirements, Australian Attorney-General's Department, Melbourne, 10 October 2017. |
| Geographic Reach | Australia |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Joint Submission to the Attorney-General's Department, Australian Government, in regard to its Modern Slavery in Supply Chains Reporting Requirements - Public Consultation, (with Crane A, Horrigan B, and Rühmkorf A), October 2017. |
| Geographic Reach | Australia |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Joint Submission to the Foreign Affairs and Aid Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Parliament of Australia |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Amendments were made to new bill before parliament, and bill passed. |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/at-last-australia-has-a-modern-slavery-act-heres-what-youll-need-to-know... |
| Description | Joint Submission to the Foreign Affairs and Aid Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Parliament of Australia, in regard to its Inquiry into Establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia, (with Jean Allain, Heli Askola, Andrew Crane, and Marie Segrave), April 2017. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | Joint Submission to the Foreign Affairs and Aid Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Parliament of Australia, in regard to its Inquiry into Establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia, (with Jean Allain, Heli Askola, Andrew Crane, and Marie Segrave), April 2017. Covered widely in press and media, both within Australia and in the UK. Several keys points carried into the new legislation. Use of new measurement techniques, such as MSE, highlighted. |
| Description | Joint Submission to the Foreign Affairs and Aid Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Parliament of Australia, in regard to its Inquiry into Establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia. (with Askola H; Bales K; Crane A; Segrave M) April 2017. |
| Geographic Reach | Australia |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Joint Submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery in regard to the Questionnaire on Access to Justice and Remedy, (with Schwarz, K) March 2017. As a result: cited on two occasions in the Report of the Special Rapporteur, UN Doc. A/HR/36/43, 2017. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Description | Oral evidence before the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Parliament of Australia, in regard to its Inquiry into Establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia, Melbourne, August 2017 |
| Geographic Reach | Australia |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Publication of new methodology leads to request from foreign government department - "Dear Drs. Silverman and Bales, I'm a researcher at the Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute (HSSAI), a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As described by Dr. Picarelli, HSSAI is now conducting a pilot study on the potential use of the multiple systems estimation (MSE) technique to estimate the prevalence of human trafficking in the United States using federal data sets." |
| Geographic Reach | North America |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | The No Project |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Zoe Trodd is an adviser to the No Project, an NGO based in Europe that campaigns against modern slavery. She worked with its director to refine a new campaign video, about slavery in gold-mining, and to make additions to the organisation's Guidelines for Artists documents. |
| URL | http://thenoproject.org/ |
| Description | AHRC Connected Communities Festival |
| Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2016 |
| End | 07/2016 |
| Description | AHRC Network Grant, Geographies of Activism: Usable Pasts and International Futures |
| Amount | £41,467 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/P007066/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2017 |
| End | 12/2017 |
| Description | COVID-19 Risk and Response: Impacts and Mitigations for Modern Slavery Victims, Survivors and Vulnerable Populations |
| Amount | £403,125 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/V011154/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 11/2021 |
| Description | Cascade Grant: New Nottingham |
| Amount | £6,179 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2016 |
| End | 08/2018 |
| Description | ESRC/AHRC TransNational Organised Crime Call. Project title: Modern Slavery: Meaning and Measurement |
| Amount | £99,935 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2016 |
| End | 05/2018 |
| Description | Grants for the Arts |
| Amount | £14,961 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | GFTA-00079254 |
| Organisation | Arts Council England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2018 |
| End | 10/2018 |
| Description | QR SDF Allocation for pilot project connected to 'Remembering 1807' digital archive |
| Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Hull |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | Research Priority Area Step-Change Funding |
| Amount | £299,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2016 |
| End | 07/2019 |
| Description | The Antislavery Knowledge Network, GCRF Network Plus Award |
| Amount | £2,000,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/R005427/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | The Impacts of COVID-19 on Modern Slavery in Transition: A Case Study of Sudan |
| Amount | £94,277 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/V01112X/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | UKRI SPF Funding: Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre |
| Amount | £10,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | UK Government Investments |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Title | Massive Open Online Course |
| Description | In October 2016 we ran the world's first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) about modern slavery. It was free and open to all, ran across four weeks, and involved a minimum of 5 hours learning activity a week. The description was: Why join the course? There are more slaves alive today than at any point in history. Around the world, nearly 46 million people are forced to work against their will for no pay. Responding to this challenge over the past 20 years, a new antislavery movement has shown us that a world without slavery is possible. Now is your chance to learn about this major human rights issue with the world's first massive open online course about contemporary slavery. Understand contemporary slavery You'll learn from experts at the cutting edge of human rights research, and you'll investigate the complex systems that sustain slavery today. You will consider: Different forms of slavery Ground-breaking research about slavery's measurement and definition Strategies for ending slavery at the local, national and international levels The roles of governments, businesses, technology, legislation and enslaved people themselves in ending slavery Explore the historical context of slavery The new UN Sustainable Development Goals now call for an end to global slavery by 2030, but how can we achieve this? To end slavery in the future, first we must look to the past. On the course we will look at the historical context of slavery and antislavery. What antislavery techniques have worked to date? Do past antislavery movements offer any lessons? Is historical antislavery a usable past for today's efforts? Learn from experts in the field This course is supported by the AHRC Care for the Future research grant "The Antislavery Usable Past" and features research and teaching from experts in human rights and in past and present antislavery. It is taught by Professor Kevin Bales, the world's leading expert on contemporary slavery and one of the leaders of the antislavery movement, along with Professor Zoe Trodd, a leading expert on antislavery, and Dr. Katie Donington, a slavery historian. You will have access to the most cutting-edge research available in this area and be part of brainstorming a new guide for ending slavery that covers every level, from the individual to the United Nations. On this course you have the chance to not only learn about slavery and antislavery, but also debate and shape solutions for the next phase of the contemporary antislavery movement. This course is an essential experience for anyone who wants to be part of a great human rights battle of our time. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | We reached 8000 learners, from at least 150 different countries (from all continents except Antarctica). Several NGOs (including one in Cambodia) asked their staff members to take the MOOC for staff development, and it was embedded in at least five undergraduate courses in the UK, US and Australia. In the last step of the MOOC, the learners came up with their own pledges for what they would do next in their lives towards ending slavery locally, nationally and internationally. As it was so popular, we run it again in May 2017 (rather than waiting another year). The MOOC has been shortlisted for the Learning on Screen Awards 2017. |
| URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/slavery |
| Title | Antislavery Legislation Database |
| Description | To assess the extent to which slavery and related forms of human exploitation have been prohibited in domestic law, the Antislavery in Domestic Legislation Project compiles the constitutional, criminal, and labour legislation of all 193 UN Member States, drawing provisions dealing with the following forms of exploitation from these texts: Slavery and the slave trade Servitude Institutions and practices similar to slavery Forced or compulsory labour Trafficking in persons From over 700 domestic statutes, more than four thousand individual provisions have been extracted and analysed to establish the extent to which each and every State has prohibited these practices through domestic legislation. Within the Antislavery Legislation Database, these provisions have been collated with a global mapping of States' commitments to relevant international instruments, to assist States in meeting their international obligations with regard to slavery and related forms of exploitation. Core international obligations to prohibit, and the definitions of these practices, are drawn from five core international instruments: The 1926 Slavery Convention The 1930 Forced Labour Convention The 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery The 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights The 2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Countries without slavery legislation are already responding with follow-up queries and requests for model law. |
| URL | https://antislaverylaw.ac.uk/ |
| Title | Antislavery Murals Collection for the Antislavery Usable Past digital archive |
| Description | This is first major collection of murals focused on slavery and antislavery. It currently brings together murals from the United States that depict historical slavery and antislavery, and will expand to include murals about both historical and contemporary antislavery, and from countries around the world. In this collection, we see the abolitionists emerge from community walls as ancestors for 20th-century social justice leaders and as a usable past for contemporary activism. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Launched December 2017 amid media interest. BBC interview for radio and this has been used by a lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and for a lecture for University of Nottingham students. It has been shared with a mural organisation in Washington D.C. to use in their future work. |
| URL | http://www.antislavery.ac.uk/solr-search?facet=collection:%22Murals%22 |
| Title | Archive of contemporary slave narratives |
| Description | Now as in the 19th century, the slave narrative is at the centre of abolitionism. More effectively than any other abolitionist writing in the 19th century, slave narratives detailed the brutality of slave life and highlighted the heroism of people who made their escape from bondage. Today, formerly enslaved people make themselves subjects of a story instead of objects for sale, and use narrative as a tool for ending slavery. This archive collects hundreds of contemporary slave narratives and makes them available to the public. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Use of the narratives by multiple NGOs to guide their campaigns and policy. |
| Title | Contemporary Narratives Collection for Antislavery Usable Past digital archive |
| Description | This archive gather together a major collection of testimonies by survivors of contemporary slavery. Inspired by the tradition of powerful nineteenth-century slave narratives, this collection puts survivors' voices and stories at the heart of antislavery activism in the belief that their opinions should be key to the formulation of antislavery strategies in the present day. The collection launched in 2016 with 50 narratives and continues to grow with a target of 500 in total. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The narrative collection is being used by NGO's and other organisations to give a voice to survivors of antislavery. They will be used to inform educational resources generated by the Antislavery Usable Past. |
| URL | http://www.antislavery.ac.uk/solr-search?facet=collection%3A%22Contemporary%20Narratives%22 |
| Title | Contemporary Slavery in Armed Conflict (CSAC) dataset |
| Description | We introduce a new dataset, Contemporary Slavery in Armed Conflict (CSAC), coding instances and types of enslavement in armed conflicts from 1989 to 2016, building on the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. CSAC currently covers 171 armed conflicts from 1989 to 2016, with the primary unit of analysis being the conflict-year. We identify different types of enslavement within these conflicts, and find that 87% contained incidence of child soldiers, 32% included sexual exploitation/forced marriage, 21% included forced Labor, and 14% contained instances of human trafficking. We note that enslavement is more likely to take place in internal armed conflicts. The use of enslavement in armed conflicts to support strategic aims is identified, and found in 16% of cases. Because this data coding exercise is novel, we highlight limitations and suggest areas for further research. We see the coding of slavery within conflict as a step toward generating greater understanding of when and how state and non-state actors use enslavement within conflicts, with the goal of learning how to mitigate and possibly eradicate slavery in warfare. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Dataset launched online in Autumn 2020, first analyses and "launch" article in Journal of Peace Research will be published in 2021. |
| URL | https://www.csac.org.uk |
| Title | Global Slavery Index Government Response Ranking |
| Description | Delivery of the 2019 government response ranking using new indicators designed by survivors - from Nov 2018 to March 2019, for launch at the UN in July 2019 by the Walk Free Foundation |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Global ability to understand government responses to modern slavery, with resulting actions on new legislation and policy |
| Title | Legacies on Display: Slavery in Museums |
| Description | This is first global, online collections of museums that permanently engage with subjects of slavery and antislavery in their interpretation. It currently brings together museums from twenty five countries around the world, including the UK, USA, Nigeria, Brazil and Australia. In this collection, we see the patterns of representation of these histories, designed by museums for a global audience. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The collection was launched in December 2018 with a workshop attended by academics, professional practitioners and postgraduate students, on the theme of digital humanities, at the Wilberforce Institute in Hull. This was followed by a demonstration of the collection to members of the public. Since its launch the collection has prompted enquiries from three institutions across the UK wanting to make use of its potential to network between organisations. |
| URL | http://www.antislavery.ac.uk/solr-search?q=legacies%20on%20display&facet=collection%3A%22Legacies+on... |
| Title | Remembering 1807 |
| Description | Remembering 1807 is a digital archive of commemorative activity from across the UK associated with the bicentenary of the Slave Trade Abolition Act (2007). The archive documents materials and information from large national projects and regional initiatives to local history projects and community-led events. Records and resources produced by the projects help us to understand the place of slavery, the slave trade and its abolition in the UK's public history and commemorative traditions. This is the only digital archive of its kind and provides an invaluable resource for scholars, students, archivists and members of the general public. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | There were two public launches associated with the development of this database and local press coverage. |
| URL | http://antislavery.ac.uk/remembering1807 |
| Title | Teaching Slavery |
| Description | How should we teach slavery and human trafficking? What methods should we use? What topics should we highlight? Are there any subjects which are 'off-limits' to certain audiences? This collection grapples with these questions and ultimately makes clear that we cannot avoid the brutalities of slavery when we teach the subject to our friends, colleagues, neighbours, or children. The length and breadth of the teaching resources displayed here cover sexual exploitation, slavery in supply chains, spotting signs of human trafficking at airports, slavery in food production (such as cocoa and the fishing industry), forced marriage, grooming, domestic slavery, slavery in gold mining and the carpet industry, the fashion industry and ecocide. 'Teaching Slavery' has been created in conjunction with Judy Boyle, the Founder of The NO Project who has developed 9 education resources for the Anti Slavery Usable Past. You will find each resource, with a short introduction to each one, highlighted here. These teaching resources will be included in the Masters Programme at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Please use the guides and resources in your own classrooms, to teach the next generation about slavery and its legacies. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Teachers are already using the lesson plans around the world. The resources have had over 5,000 downloads. The global British Council educational platform continues to promote it. |
| URL | http://www.antislavery.ac.uk/solr-search?facet=collection%3A%22Teaching%20Slavery%22 |
| Description | African and Caribbean Support Organisation of Northern Ireland |
| Organisation | African and Caribbean Support Organisation Northern Ireland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Organisation and hosting of a public event 'Dealing with the Past, Looking to the Future: An Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights and Justice'. The Antislavery Usable Past research team provided the infrastructure for the hosting of a collaborative event, as well as organising and promoting the public forum. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The African and Caribbean Support Organisation of Northern Ireland (ACSONI) provided valuable connections to the community of African and Caribbean people living in Northern Ireland, facilitating dialogue to engage local communities in the issues surrounding reparations. |
| Impact | A Public Forum hosted by the Antislavery Usable Past team in collaboration with ACSONI engaged the public with issues relating to the research of the team. The event brought members of the public and local African and Caribbean communities together with academics, prominent politicians and the Hon. Consul at the Consulate of St Vincent and the Grenadines in Northern Ireland together in a cultural event which fostered cross-community dialogue on the issue of reparations. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Being Human Festival |
| Organisation | Being Human Festival |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We organised a three-part series for the national Being Human Festival in November 2016, including an event on Nottingham becoming a slavery-free city. Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd were two of the main speakers at the event. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Being Human festival funded our three-part series, with venue costs. |
| Impact | The event launched a new Modern Slavery partnership in the city: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2016/november/making-nottingham-a-slavery-free-city.aspx |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Collaboration with Florida Abolitionist (Anti-Trafficking Coalition of Central Florida) in prevalence research, and U. of Central Florida |
| Organisation | University of Central Florida |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Trained NGO partners, local government, and local, state and federal law enforcement in MSE methodology, coordinated work with Criminology Dept, U. of Central Florida. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supply both insight into hidden crime AND data to used in prevalence research. |
| Impact | In the trial of MSE use in local areas, this collaboration highlighted the importance of, and significant challenges faced by, local NGO and law enforcement groups. While the original proposal called for this to be the location of the first trial MSE calculation, and despite assurances from Central Florida groups, they were ultimately unable to surmount data sharing and political concerns. This led to a 'no fault' end to the collaboration and a transfer of the area of focus to New Orleans. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Collaboration with Loyola University New Orleans, Modern Slavery Research Project, and New Orleans Anti-Trafficking Coalition |
| Organisation | Loyola University Chicago |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | trained local NGO coalition, and Modern Slavery Research Project staff in MSE methods. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Working together carried out first use of MSE statistics to generate reliable estimate of slavery prevalence in the United States. Partners gathered and shared data. |
| Impact | Publication in submission at this time. Key data already in use by local organisations for policy and practice planning. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Collaboration with Tougaloo College in establishing Inst. for the Study of Modern Slavery |
| Organisation | Tougaloo College |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Tougaloo College is a 'traditionally Black college' in the USA, it's campus is situated on the old Tougaloo Plantation outside Jackson Mississippi, a slave-based plantation that was converted into a college for freed slaves in 1867. It was a centre for the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Tougaloo faculty and students, working with Historians against Slavery and our teams from Nottingham, built up, within funding from the Mellon Foundation, an Inst. for the Study of Modern Slavery - the first in the United States. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They provided space, researchers, student interns, and some travel funding. |
| Impact | Conferences with representation from a number of TBCUs, reports to Mississippi government, other research outputs. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboration with Walk Free Foundation in the production of the annual Global Slavery Index |
| Organisation | Walk Free Foundation |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Our research team provides statistical support, writing, authorship, and needed media appearances both at the time of the annual launch of the Index, and year round in response to media inquiries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The key and largest in the millions of dollars paid to the Gallup World Poll for the surveys in many countries each year upon which the Index rests. Also the staff, research and statistical, that co-produce the Index. Plus the large cost of the Launch of the Index each year. |
| Impact | Annual editions of the Global Slavery Index (GSI), plus direct input, advice, and policy review to national governments who respond to the Index with requests for assistance. As of 2016, we have now signed a partnership agreement with the Walk Free Foundation to formally collaborate on the GSI at the University of Nottingham, led by Kevin Bales. The GSI is a country by country estimation of slavery's prevalence, together with information about the steps each government has taken to respond. It allows an objective comparison and assessment of both the problem and the adequacy of response in 167 countries. Kevin Bales, the grant PI, is the lead author on the index. The most recent GSI (2016) covered 99% of the world's population, and was supported by extensive on-the-ground research through the Gallup World Poll. The partnership allows the exchange of knowledge and expertise with our team, including access to Gallup data to enable secondary analysis and collaboration on the government response database. As the most robust metric available, the GSI's global reach in bolstering public awareness and support for policy and enforcement was evident in the awareness figures from the June 2016 launch: over 2000 traditional media articles, 250 million Twitter impressions, and more than 255,000 website viewings within a week of its release. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Collaboration with the Centre for the Study of International Slavery (University of Liverpool) |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Department | Centre for the Study of International Slavery |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Organisation of postgraduate research workshop 'Postgrads against Slavery: Ideas to Impact' |
| Collaborator Contribution | Organisational support and venue for postgraduate research workshop 'Postgrads against Slavery: Ideas to Impact' |
| Impact | Interdisciplinary postgraduate and early career researcher workshop hosted at the University of Liverpool |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboration with the Colonial Countryside Arts Council project, Dr Corinne Fowler, University of Leicester |
| Organisation | University of Leicester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | One of the project's expert historian. Over the course of the next 5 years: a) visiting one (or more) National Trust property/ies with a party of 10 child researchers between now and November 2018. b) attending a planning day at the University of Leicester to suggest useful research, essays, weblinks, podcasts and other sources for a writers' resource website at the beginning of March in 2018. c) advising commissioned writers by email or phone about the historical background to their new stories (in 2018-19) d) attending a workshop at the University of Leicester where commissioned writers present their work in progress (in September 2018) e) attending a conference (coinciding with Literary Leicester) in which 100 primary pupils present their findings and writing on 16 November 2018. f) attending literary festivals and black history month events in 2020. g) advising the National Trust on its 2022 Challenging Histories programme. h) writing a short, accessible commentary to accompany the Peepal Tree Press book of commissioned stories (this book will almost certainly be sold in National Trust shops during 2022). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Corinne Fowler won the funding and is coordinating the entire programme. |
| Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary project involving English Literature, History, Art History, Museum Studies, Art. The project will include the following outputs: children's conference, children's book (including essays by historians), advising National Trust on slavery links, workshops and events. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboration with the Freedom Fund on training for frontline workers and research on global challenges |
| Organisation | Freedom Fund UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration supported mental health trainings in late October 2016 in SE Nepal (basic awareness of mental health and self-care for frontline workers), as well as supporting a convening in dec. 2016 that reviewed what's been effective in anti-slavery interventions during the past year, and what might be changed or improved in the planning of rehabilitative and reintegrative work with slavery survivors in the coming year. Further joint fieldwork was carried out in two locations in Maharashtra: 1. villages with high levels of hereditary debt bondage slavery working in sandstone quarries (with resultant very high mortality from silicosis); 2. ground-truthing data and surveying of slave-base brick kilns in preparation for larer satellite based study of number and type of brick kilns in the "brick belt". |
| Collaborator Contribution | Freedom fund provided just at half the total budget, organised meeting and logistics, and this work feeds into collaborative development of both articles and joint grant proposals. |
| Impact | An ESRC GCRF Impact Accelerator grant grew from this work. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Historians Against Slavery |
| Organisation | Historians Against Slavery |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We have expanded this US-based organisation to the UK, bringing together UK historians into a network, with launch workshop, new speakers' bureau and a large conference scheduled for 2017 |
| Collaborator Contribution | US directors of Historians Against Slavery visited for the launch workshop, will host their biennial conference in Liverpool in 2017 (rather than at the National Underground Railroad Museum in Ohio), and welcomed us as an official UK sub-committee. |
| Impact | New UK-based branch of HAS 2017 conference Network map (digital) of UK historians Speakers' bureau New digital resource of slavery walking trails |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Independent Antislavery Commissioner Office |
| Organisation | Independent Anti Slavery Commissioner |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are providing research team members to work on two new joint projects: The first mapping of contemporary slavery research around the UK: http://www.antislaverycommissioner.co.uk/news-insights/help-create-uks-first-mapping-of-modern-slavery-research/ And the first mapping and analysis of modern antislavery partnerships around the UK: http://www.antislaverycommissioner.co.uk/news-insights/launch-of-research-into-uk-modern-slavery-partnerships/ |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Commissioner's office provides expertise, research collaboration, data and partnership links. |
| Impact | To be updated at the end of the projects (autumn 2017) |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | International Slavery Museum |
| Organisation | International Slavery Museum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are collaborating on an international conference in 2017 (at the museum's 10 year anniversary) and on new educational resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner has arranged an internship for one of our PhD students and is donating its space for free during our October 2017 conference. The ISM director spoke at our launch event for Historians Against Slavery UK, and has arranged a panel about the ISM's first 10 years for our October conference. |
| Impact | Biennial Historians Against Slavery conference: October 2017 |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Museum of African American History |
| Organisation | Museum of African American History |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Zoe Trodd curated an exhibition based on her book Picturing Frederick Douglass, which opened at the Museum in June 2016 and will close in December 2017. It is the first major exhibition of Frederick Douglass photographs, extends across two floors of the museum, and has attracted thousands of visitors since its opening. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The museum funded the exhibition, including all object loans, staffing, space, installation costs, interactive displays, new graphic panels, launch events, and schools programming. |
| Impact | Large-scale exhibit New digital displays Schools and public workshops |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Re-presenting slavery: making a public usable past |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Institute of Education (IOE) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Katie Donington has built a network of scholars, public historians and activists interested in the ways in which slavery has figured in public history in Britain. Katie has created a website to publicise the network. She has organised one conference and three workshops to facilitate the brokerage of relationships between different network members. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Institute of Education partners waived their fees for speaking at the conference. They have secured the involvement of a network of teachers and students that they work with for a conference in 'Slavery and Education' taking place in June 2017. The Institute for Black Atlantic Research has contributed space for a workshop on 'Slavery, Emancipation and Art'. Director Lubaina Himid has waived her speaking fee for an archive session for the network. |
| Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration involving history, art, art history, cultural studies, education, sociology, museum studies and English literature. The outputs so far include a website and blog, a conference and three workshops. Katie is planning on submitting a book proposal based on the work of the network members. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Re-presenting slavery: making a public usable past |
| Organisation | University of Central Lancashire |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Katie Donington has built a network of scholars, public historians and activists interested in the ways in which slavery has figured in public history in Britain. Katie has created a website to publicise the network. She has organised one conference and three workshops to facilitate the brokerage of relationships between different network members. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Institute of Education partners waived their fees for speaking at the conference. They have secured the involvement of a network of teachers and students that they work with for a conference in 'Slavery and Education' taking place in June 2017. The Institute for Black Atlantic Research has contributed space for a workshop on 'Slavery, Emancipation and Art'. Director Lubaina Himid has waived her speaking fee for an archive session for the network. |
| Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration involving history, art, art history, cultural studies, education, sociology, museum studies and English literature. The outputs so far include a website and blog, a conference and three workshops. Katie is planning on submitting a book proposal based on the work of the network members. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Society of Applied Philosophy |
| Organisation | Royal Institute of Philosophy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Organisation and convening of the two day event 'From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Engaging the Maangamizi: Intergenerational Justice and Repair'. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Assistance and co-convening of the two day event 'From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Engaging the Maangamizi: Intergenerational Justice and Repair'. |
| Impact | Hosting of a two-day event which engaged with the public and with specialists on issues of intergenerational justice and reparations. The forum provided a rich opportunity for public, cross-community dialogue and connected the academic issues to these communities. The pre-conference workshop placed academics from different disciplines (primarily law and philosophy) in dialogue with reparations activists and scholar activists working at the grassroots level. It created seldom explored connections between these different actors, building upon the momentum established in 2015 at the 'Repairing the Past, Imagining the Future: Reparations and Beyond' conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Wheelock College. Hosting the event in collaboration with the Society for Applied Philosophy and in conjunction with their annual conference allowed for in depth engagement between philosophers, legal academics and activists that rarely occurs in conversations surrounding reparations. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Student Antislavery Group |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We launched a new student antislavery group at the University of Nottingham, which now fund raises for our partner Antislavery International, holds public events, and partners with us on engagement activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The students organise their own events, have built a large student membership, and employ social media for communication. |
| Impact | New student engagement Internship opportunities for students at Antislavery International in London Funds raised for Antislavery International, a registered charity |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Unchosen |
| Organisation | Unchosen |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We provided case studies about historical slavery for Unchosen's annual national film competition in 2016: http://unchosen.org.uk/films/film-competition-1/, in order that filmmakers could factor in a 'usable past' lens to their short films. In June 2017 we also co-host a national conference on child slavery with Unchosen. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Unchosen raises awareness of Modern Slavery by empowering individuals, communities and organisations to recognise the signs and take action. By screening films, it hopes that more people will be able to recognise the signs of slavery, and therefore more victims will be identified, more perpetrators prosecuted, and demand for services and products produced from slave labour will be reduced. They ran the film competition to which we contributed case studies, and are co-running our joint conference. |
| Impact | Film competition using historical case studies Joint conference |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Yale University Working Group |
| Organisation | Yale University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Jean Allain, Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd are now members of the new Gilder Lehrman Center (GLC) for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Working Group on Modern Day Slavery, Yale University (2016-19), a group of the world's 12 leading scholars of modern slavery. We will attend two meetings a year (March 2017, September 2017, March 2018 and September 2018) and work on specific outputs that will be collaborations between the Antislavery Usable Past and the GLC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Yale University funds travel (from the UK for Bales/Trodd and from Australia for Allain), accommodation and meals during the two-day workshops, meeting space on campus, and coordinates the organisation of the meetings. |
| Impact | Outputs to come in 2018 |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Yole!Africa - partnership for working with local communities in Goma (DRC) |
| Organisation | Yolé! Africa |
| Country | Congo, the Democratic Republic of the |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | I researched the work of the partners in order to make sure that their approach and methods were in line with the desired outcome for the project. I set up a meeting in North Carolina to discuss the project with the partners. Together we developed a new project and budget. We are co-producing an exhibition and education pack for use by local schools, colleges, universities, community organizations and NGOs. I am organising the Archives into the Future conference which we will speak at. I will arrange the NGO session at Antislavery International. I will arrange for the student ambassador from Goma to have a series of meetings with archives, museums, community groups and artists when she arrives in London. I have (along with Charlotte Lloyd) been responsible for managing the budget and financial aspects of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Yole!Africa have designed and implemented the workshop programme in Goma and Lubumbashi. They set up a new partnership with PICHA! Gallery in Lubumbashi for the second set of workshops. They have maintained contact with the students in Goma via a Facebook group which the students regularly submit their new photography to. They have recruited a University of North Carolina PhD student Carlee Forbes to work on developing the education pack, she also assisted with the workshop in Goma. They are co-producing the exhibition and educational materials. They are solely responsible for the production of the film. They have organised the Congo International Film Festival in 2017 and will do so again in 2018 when they will showcase the exhibition and educational resources. They are attending Archives into the Future and will speak on a panel. They will deliver an NGO workshop to Antislavery International. |
| Impact | The partnership is multi-disciplinary and involves history, art history, photography, film, art, and ethnography. Workshops for young people in Goma and Lubumbashi. An exhibition which will be displayed at the Congo International Film Festival in Goma in 2018. Education resources. 45 minute film. The exhibition, educational resources and film will be digitised and put on the online Antislavery Usable Past archive. Panel at Archives into the Future conference. NGO workshop with Antislavery International. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | "'There wouldn't be an America if it wasn't for Black people": Programme Review of the University of Nottingham's Black History Month Events" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Wrote summary article on Black History Month 2014 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.baas.ac.uk/usso/there-wouldnt-be-an-america-if-it-wasnt-for-black-people-series-review-of... |
| Description | "A View from the Arts: Race and Rights: Ferguson Part 4" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Wrote a response piece to the Ferguson riots, assessing how the movement uses historical protest strategies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/arts/2014/12/17/race-and-rights-ferguson-part-4/ |
| Description | "Black History Month: A Pulitzer Prize Winner on Campus" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Wrote article about forthcoming lecture with Professor Annette Gordon-Reed at the University of Nottingham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blackhistorymonth/2014/10/24/a-pulitzer-prize-winner-on-campus/ |
| Description | "Documentary Review: The Black Panther Party: Vanguard of the Revolution" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Wrote review of Stanley Nelson's 'The Black Panther Party: Vanguard of the Revolution". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.baas.ac.uk/usso/reviewblackpantherpartyvanguard/ |
| Description | "Emotions and American Protest" at European and British Association of American Studies (EBAAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave conference paper on the emotions of American protest in Black Power murals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | "The Legacy of Black Power Visual Culture in 1990s Hip Hop" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Wrote an article on the prevalence of a Black Power aesthetic in 1990s Hip Hop iconography. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.baas.ac.uk/usso/the-legacy-of-black-power-visual-culture-in-1990s-hip-hop/ |
| Description | #hiddeninplainsight (Hull) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Campaign #hiddeninplainsight to mark Anti-Slavery Day in the UK. Events was picked up by over 40 media outlets, including the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, the Independent, local radio and TV. Massive response via Twitter and Facebook. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | 'Addressing Antislavery in UK Museums: From Public Memorials to Active Campaign Spaces', paper delivered at the Federation of International Human Rights Museums annual conference, Winnipeg. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 100 museum professionals plus members of the public attended the Federation of Human Rights Museums Annual Conference where this paper was presented. The audience asked questions and displayed interest afterwords. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Antislavery in UK Museum: From public memorials to active campaign spaces', York, April 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented at the 'Difficult Heritage' conference at the Convent Bar Museum, York. The paper was attended by around 50 people who reported changes in their views, and asked questions afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Confronting past injustices by teaching 'forgotten' histories' workshop University College London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dealing with the legacies of past injustices necessitates a multi-pronged approach, of which teaching 'forgotten' histories is a vital part. This talk explored this issue using Local Roots/Global Routes, a collaborative project run by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project at UCL and Hackney Museum and Archives, as an example. The project explored Hackney's links to transatlantic slavery, helping to expand the history already being taught about abolitionists in the area to also reflect the presence of slave-owners and people of African descent. It did this through archival research, explorations of built heritage, and direct engagement with teachers and young people. In the process, the project also addressed constructs of the past that either ignored or distorted the histories of people of African descent, particularly the history of Africa before European contact and the role played by enslaved Africans in the fight against slavery. The audience was around 12 people, mainly educational researchers and practitioners. There was an interesting debate afterwards. The panel included a representative from the Institute of Education which has helped to strengthen an existing relationship as we started to make future plans for another project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/conflict-confrontation-and-justice-co... |
| Description | 'From Wilberforce to Modern-day Slavery' (Beverley) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to Beverley Civic Society, 12 May 2017. Small audience of about 25 people, all very engaged. Lively discussion afterwards. Some of those present subsequently came to the Wilberforce World Freedom Summit in September 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.antislavery.ac.uk |
| Description | 'Legacies on Display: Slavery in Museums' Launch: Workshop on Digital Humanities and Public Demonstration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | To coincide with the launch of the 'Legacies on Display: Slavery in Museums' online collection, I put together and led a workshop on the theme of digital humanities, with Dr Mary Wills. The workshop was attended by around 15 people - academics, postgraduate students and local professional practitioners from the heritage sector. This workshop was followed by a public demonstration of the collection, along with a relaunch of added content to the 'Remembering 1807' archive. Around 30 people attended this. Both events prompted questions and further discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Past Matters, Research Futures' Care for the Future ECR conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | I gave a paper about commemorations of slavery and abolition at a conference and networking event for Early Career Researchers doing research related to the AHRC Care for the Future theme. I engaged in wider discussions about themes of Care for the Future, partnership working between academic and non-academic organisations, and the challenges faced by the 'New Researcher'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | 'Reimagining the boundaries of antislavery: History, heritage and community engagement' Panel, Transforming Public History from Charleston to the Atlantic World, Avery College, Charleston, South Carolina, 14-17 Jun 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The international conference was a partnership of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World Program (CLAW), the Addlestone Library, and the Race and Social Justice Initiative, local, national, and international cultural heritage organizations, academic institutions, and historic sites. The presentation as part of the panel introduced the 'Remembering 1807' digital archive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://claw.cofc.edu/2017-conference-schedule/ |
| Description | 'Remembering 1807: a new digital archive of commemorative activity', Historians Against Slavery Conference, International Slavery Museum, 7-8 October 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The presentation was part of a panel to introduce the 'Remembering 1807' database, and was part of the programme of events to promote the newly launched digital archive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/2017-conference-october-7-8-2017/ |
| Description | 'Rethinking the Boundaries of British Anti-Slavery', Alderman Sydney Smith Lecture, University of Hull, October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Annual public lecture delivered to an online audience of c. 75 people from the UK, the US and Australia, with Professor Catherine Hall (respondent). Lecture wa followed by 30-minute discussion and invited questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | 'Slavery and Art' workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop is examining some of the different ways that slavery and its legacies have figured within the art world. The framework we are using is broad and considers issues of slavery, emancipation and identity, race and racism, institutions and collections, curatorial voice and authority. In partnership with the Institute for Black Atlantic Research at the University of Central Lancashire. We expect 40 participants including artists, curators, researchers, and interested members of the general public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'Slavery and Education' planning forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This meeting is a planning forum to discuss the development of an event to take place on Thursday 1 June 2017 at University College London. The main event will consider the ways in which slavery has been taught in both formal and informal learning environments. Bringing together historians, teachers (all levels / formal and informal), community groups, public history professionals, activists and students, this event will share different kinds of practice and approaches to the subject. It will also act as a brokering event to facilitate relationships between different institutions and individuals. The event is the start of the conversation and we hope for some concrete outcomes going forwards. The planning forum is a space in which different interested individuals can come together to help shape the form, content and legacies. The event and its offshoots should meet a need - we hope that in bringing together different perspectives we will formulate something that is useful to different groups. This event is in partnership with the Institute of Education, UCL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'Slavery and Public History' Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop explored how different kinds of public historians and organisations have represented Britain's historic role in both slavery and its abolition. Throughout the day we heard from museum and heritage professionals, community historians and academics - there was plenty of opportunities to ask questions and jdebate. There was an open session for people to discuss new projects and ideas giving participants a chance to see how they might help each other and get involved. A walking tour of Liverpool allowed participants to see first hand how the history of slavery has shaped the city of Liverpool. There were 41 participants. The feedback was very positive - people commented on the usefulness of making new contacts and hearing about new projects. Katie recruited new members to the network associated with this workshop 'Re-presenting slavery: making a public usable past.' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'Slavery, memory and citizenship' conference, University of the West Indies, Jamaica |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and Its Diasporas, York University, Toronto in collaboration with The Faculty of Humanities and Education, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston Jamaica, presented the Seventh Annual Summer Institute: "Slavery, Memory, Citizenship" at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica between 7-14 August, 2016. The objective of this summer institute was to analyse and reflect on the experiences and memories of slavery; the research, pedagogies and representations associated with enslavement; and the implications of its legacies for claims for full citizenship, all in historical and contemporary contexts. My paper was well received and the audience asked lots of questions. I built up good contacts with researchers at universities in Canada and the West Indies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://tubman.info.yorku.ca/research/summer-institute-2016-slavery-memory-and-citizenship/ |
| Description | 'Social History: Legacies and Prospects' Society History Society Plenary Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Karen Hunt chaired a discussion on social history and its future, with a panel of the University of Manchester's Professor Penny Summerfield, Anglia Ruskin University's Professor Rohan McWilliam and the University of Nottingham's Dr Kate Donington. A video of this discussion was posted on YouTube and has been seen 330 times. The audience was approximately 200 for the event. There was a lively discussion and debate around the issues raised and some further enquiries about finding out more about the public engagement work I have done. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRhsvYILb4Q |
| Description | 'Unspeakable things unspoken: Transatlantic slavery - a public conversation' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This conference examined the ways in which slavery has figured in public history in Britain. It considered how academic history has shaped public perceptions of slavery and how public debate has challenged and inspired scholarship. It gave critical attention to the ways in which slavery and colonialism has shaped both our public and academic history institutions. Given the increasing emphasis on 'impact' within university research agendas the event offered new possibilities for building relationships across academic and public history. Public history was conceived of in its broadest sense and speakers were invited from among museum and heritage professionals, artists, community historians, activists, academics, poets, performers and educators. There was an evening of performance, conversation and music that will explore transatlantic slavery and its legacies through the work of renowned Jamaican poet Jean 'Binta' Breeze and guest artists and musicians. The second day was a half day workshop focused on local history activism in Nottingham and the East Midlands. There were 120 attendees. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive with people citing a variety of different reasons for enjoying the event. Many people commented on the value of bringing together different disciplines, individuals and organisations involved with the public representation of slavery. The conference was organised by Katie Donington. Jean Allain and John Oldfield participated as chairs for two panels on 'Reparations' and 'Race' respectively. Mary Wills, Rebecca Nelson and Hannah Jeffrey all acted as facilitators. Hannah also tweeted throughout the day and engaged in online conversations with people who were viewing the conference through the live feed as well as audience members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.octoberdialogues.org/ |
| Description | 'William Wilberfoce and the Abolition of Slavery' (Grimsby) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk at Grimsby branch of The Historical Association. Small audience of about 35 people. Very engaged and a lively discussion afterwards that range from historical slavery to the contemporary world. Positive feedback afterwards and one request from a teacher to help re: teaching of slavery in schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.antislavery.ac.uk |
| Description | - "Looking Back on the Centre for Research in Race and Rights Events," Black History Month Blog, University of Nottingham, November 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Wrote a summary blog piece on the success of Black History Month 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/peopleandculture/2016/11/07/looking-back-centre-research-race-rights-e... |
| Description | - "Walls of Protest, Walls of Pride: America's Mural Protest from Black Power to #BlackLivesMatter" at the conference "From Abolition to Black Lives Matter: Past and Present Forms of Transnational Black Resistance," at the Transnational American Studies Institute, Johannes- Gutenberg, Mainz, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave presentation on murals of the Black Lives Matter movement and how this borrows on from a tradition that invokes an antislavery memory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 2017-18 Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Keynote at University College London: "Ending Modern Slavery." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | A Monument of Blackness: The Role of Murals in the Black Freedom Struggle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk at the conference: Black Atlantic Authorship and Art: An International Symposium, National Library of Scotland and University of Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | AHRC Case Study on The Antislavery Usable Past |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The AHRC published a case study on their website co-written by Professor Zoe Trodd about the Antislavery Usable Past project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/research/casestudies/the-antislavery-usable-past/ |
| Description | AHRC Early Career Researchers 'Past Matters, Research Futures', Royal Society, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I delivered a conference paper 'Red rubber in sepia: slavery, memory and representation in the Democratic Republic of Congo' for Early Career Researchers. I received useful feedback on the project and there was a brief discussion of some of the issues raised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Advice/Content for Chelsea Garden Show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I helped to design and provide content for the Modern Slavery Garden which won both Gold and the BBC / RHS People's Choice Award at the 2016 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-36367792 |
| Description | Advocacy to the G20 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with leading practitioners dealing with antislavery consider the means of getting such issues on the G20 agenda. Meeting included Kevin Hyland, the UK Antislavery Commissioner, The Freedom Fund, Walk Free, Transparency International, United Nations University, Save the Children and Anti-Slavery International. I was invited in my capacity as Special Advisor to Anti-Slavery International |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | African American Activist Walking Tour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In December 2018, I wrote and organised a historic walking tour of central London, focusing on six sites associated with African American activism. The tour was very popular, and I had excellent feedback regarding the content and delivery. I am currently planning to undertake the walking tour for a second time, as well as develop another walking tour that focuses on African American literary activism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Africans in Yorkshire (Hull) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Address/workshop re: anti-slavery usable past at organising event for 'Africans in Yorkshire', funded by the National Lottery Fund, 19 February 2016. Approximately 40 people present, mainly local historians and archivists. Events prompted widespread debate and discussion and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | After Slavery? Labour and Migration in the Post-Emancipation World conference, University of Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | This was an international interdisciplinary conference to explore the emergence of global patterns of labour and migration in the post-emancipation world. I spoke on 'Identifying a usable past for tackling modern slavery: heritage, memory and activism', looking at ways in which commemorations of slavery and abolition have incorporated contemporary slavery. The talk assessed how representations of slavery are revised and contested, and provoked discussions between academics, heritage professionals, representatives from third sector organisations, and members of the public present about the relationships between commemorations, public histories and social memory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://afterslaveryconference.wordpress.com/about/ |
| Description | Al Jazeera interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interviewed about impact of forced migration on modern slavery and women's rights |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | All day workshop on slavery and the environment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this scoping workshop our aim is to bring together academic researchers who are working at the interface of modern slavery, environmental destruction, and climate change. This is a new and rapidly evolving field of study that seeks to better understand the relationship between human and environmental (in)security. The workshop will begin to address the evidence gap surrounding this nexus. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ambition Widening Particpation Teaching Session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Delivered a session on 'Nottingham's local histories of slavery and abolition' for the University of Nottingham's 'Ambition' Widening Participation programme. There were 11 student in attendance. The students were actively engaged especially with the material on cases of modern slavery in Nottingham. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Anti-Slavery Day Event, Hull |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I gave an introduction to the Antislavery Usable Past project at an afternoon of free events for the general public to mark Anti-Slavery Day in Hull, organised by a collaboration between Wilberforce House Museum, the Humber Modern Slavery Partnership and the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation. The talk provoked questions about the project and the links between historical studies of slavery and the contemporary anti-slavery movement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.antislaveryday.com/2016-events/ |
| Description | Antislavery Culture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Public talk and panel debate for Childreach International, "Taught, Not Trafficked: 'Sold; Screening" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.childreach.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=1680&reset=1 |
| Description | Antislavery Protest Memory |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Paper at the University of Nottingham Memory Studies conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Antislavery Usable Past RENKEI Summer School session, University of Liverpool, 24 August 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | International summer school hosted by the Centre for the Study of International Slavery, University of Liverpool. Taught a session on the Antislavery Usable Past project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Antislavery Usable Past Website, Blog and Social Media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A project website, Facebook community page and Twitter account have been operating since 2015 and continue to build a following. Our developing blog contains articles from July 2015. Through our online presence, we interact with a mix of audiences, from the interested general browser, to professional organisations and practitioners, academic and student audiences and media. Through these channels we share the idea and application of an antislavery usable past; we disseminate research outcomes and reflections and we promote events and activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017 |
| URL | http://www.usablepast.ac.uk/usablepast/index.aspx |
| Description | Antislavery Usable Past digital archive and blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Digital web based archive containing collections generated by the research project and a blog ('About the Project') for external engagement of news, events and achievements |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.antislavery.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Antislavery Usable Past project panel for the Centre for the Study of International Slavery, Liverpool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Three members of the Antislavery Usable Past team - Katie Donington, Rebecca Nelson and Mary Wills - spoke about the project and their own research at a seminar organised by the Centre for the Study of International Slavery at the University of Liverpool. Mary Wills spoke on 'Commemorating slavery and abolition in the UK: heritage, memory and activism', Rebecca Nelson on 'The Many Faces of the Modern Museum' and Katie Donington on 'Red rubber in sepia: slavery, memory and representation in the Democratic Republic of Congo'. There were around 20 people there. There was an interesting discussion of the issues afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Antislavery in Historical Perspective |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Keynote talk at Tougaloo College, Mississippi, at a Modern Day Slavery Conference. The event helped to launch a new Institute for the Study of Modern Slavery, the first in the United States. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.tougaloo.edu/humanities-week |
| Description | Appearance on panel discussion Radio 4 Belfast 11 Feb 2018 - with Cardinal and the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Discussion generated by presentation of special report on modern slavery to the Pope on the previous day. Hour long discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09r7f3g |
| Description | Article in Nottingham Evening Post : University of Nottingham create first ever archive to document how street art has played a part in the anti-slavery movement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nottingham Evening Post newspaper article entitled "University of Nottingham create first ever archive to document how street art has played a part in the anti-slavery movement". Published 3 December 2017. Article relates to the launch of the murals archive by Antislavery Usable Past that are an output by PhD student Hannah Jeffery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/university-nottingham-create-first-ever-869113 |
| Description | Article posted on website The Conversation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 1000 word article on news and investigative journalism site on links between modern slavery and environmental destruction. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/modern-slavery-is-destroying-the-environment-to-meet-demand-for-shrimps-... |
| Description | Article, 'A review of the National Museum of African American History and Culture,' published in the Social History Curator's Group Newsletter, Issue 79 (October 2017): 16-17 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The article outlines my research trip to the NMAAHC in Washington DC, undertaken in June 2017, the connotations of this visit for my PhD research and museum practice more generally. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Attended the 'Slavery and Education Planning Forum' organised by Dr Kate Donnington at the Institute of Education, UCL, London. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a planning forum for a future event on the theme of 'Slavery and Education' working with other academics, teachers and professional practitioners from across the UK and internationally. Around 20 people attended, and debates were held on the role of education in encouraging engagement with historical slavery, the challenges of this work and ideas about future standards of practice. The result was a planned programme for a workshop on 'Slavery and Education' to be held in June 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | BBC East Midlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Promoting my digital archive "Walls of Slavery, Wall of Freedom", which is first major collection of murals focused on slavery and antislavery, on BBC East Midlands. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | BBC East Midlands Today |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Discussed my digital archive, Walls of Slavery, Walls of Freedom with BBC East Midlands Today, broadcast on the six o'clock news. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | BBC Radio Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Promoting my digital archive "Walls of Slavery, Wall of Freedom", which is first major collection of murals focused on slavery and antislavery, on BBC radio Nottingham. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | BBC Radio programme - 1 hour in length |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | From BBC website: The UK's Hidden Slaves BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra's Stories Radio 1 Stories hears from young people who were trafficked and enslaved in the U.K. These people bravely speak out against their former slave owners and traffickers to tell their stories. Presented by Radio 1's Dev. We may have thought the U.K. abolished slavery but it is still happening in brothels, farms, construction sites, car washers, nail bars and even on your street. Victims are usually vulnerable individuals, often captured when they're young and may never know a life of freedom. Slaves can be controlled on an international scale by their traffickers and slave holders. And yet this crime is hidden from the police and the public. We will hear what really goes on in this criminal underworld operating in the U.K. as former slaves speak out for the first time. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081mn77 |
| Description | BBC radio interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with BBC Radio Nottingham about the new version of the slavery series Roots, and its relevance for contemporary antislavery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02bn3sj |
| Description | BBC radio interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with BBC Radio Nottingham about the Ending Slavery MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), ahead of its launch in October 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02bn3sj |
| Description | Becoming the World's First Slavery-Free City |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Public event to launch a two-year programme for the city of Nottingham to become slavery-free |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2016/november/making-nottingham-a-slavery-free-city.a... |
| Description | Black History Murals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public screening and debate at the New Art Exchange, Nottingham, for Black History Month, including presentation of our new local mural (Nottingham's first black history mural) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.nae.org.uk/page/black-history-month-at-nae/1014 |
| Description | Blog - The iron in the ivory tower: dealing with Georgetown's legacies of enslavement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog on the Georgetown's attempts to deal with historical ties to enslavement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.slaveryandpublichistoryuk.com/blog/the-iron-in-the-ivory-tower-dealing-with-georgetowns-l... |
| Description | Blog and News post about Inaugural Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introducing colleagues and the university community to the field of modern slavery studies. Strong response from students wanting to study more and take courses, and from colleagues wanting to engage in joint research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/researchexchange/2017/02/03/professor-kevin-bales-science-can-help-end... |
| Description | Blog on FutureLearn on how the numbers of modern slaves are calculated. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In this post, Professor Kevin Bales, one of the lead educators on the University of Nottingham's course Ending Slavery, looks at how we can best measure global slavery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://about.futurelearn.com/blog/measuring-modern-slavery/ |
| Description | Blog, 'A Museum for all Americans,' published on the 'Re-presenting slavery: making a public usable past' website. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This blog outlined my impressions of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC, after my research trip there in June 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.slaveryandpublichistoryuk.com/blog/july-14th-2017 |
| Description | Blog, 'A Valuable experience at the International Slavery Museum,' ASUP wordpress site. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog looks at the placement experience from time at the International Slavery Museum and reflects on the challenges facing museums working on antislavery history today. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://blog.antislavery.ac.uk/2017/01/26/a-valuable-experience-at-the-international-slavery-museum/ |
| Description | Blog, 'Antislavery heritage and new histories in Hull,' published on the Heritage Consortium website. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog discusses the placements I have undertaken at the International Slavery Museum, and with Hull's Heritage Learning team as part of my PhD process. It reflects on the importance of heritage in relating historic antislavery to the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.heritageconsortium.ac.uk/2017/04/19/antislavery-heritage-and-new-histories-in-hull/ |
| Description | Blog, 'RACE AND BRITAIN- A RESEARCH AGENDA OR PUBLIC HISTORY?' published on the King's College London website. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Having won a bursary to attend the King's College, 'What is Contemporary British History Now?' Conference, I was asked to write a blog about an aspect of the day. This blog outlines one of the debates had following a panel on 'Race'. It links the issue of race to public history fields, as well as research agendas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://kcbh.kcl.ac.uk/2017/09/21/nelson/ |
| Description | Blog- 'A New Curriculum for Hull- Usable Past in Action' on ASUP website. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog looks at the new, place-based curriculum developed by Heritage Learning for the city of Hull, and the key role Wilberforce and the city's antislavery past has in this new resource. It is a showcase of the usable past in action for both heritage professionals and teachers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://blog.antislavery.ac.uk/2017/03/ |
| Description | Blog: '"Gentlemen Slavers" and other themes of wealth and enrichment in the Remembering 1807 archive' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog to raise awareness of the Remembering 1807 archives, and particularly the theme of heritage organisations tackling difficult questions about Britain's role in slavery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://blog.antislavery.ac.uk/2018/10/12/gentlemen-slavers-and-other-themes-of-wealth-and-enrichmen... |
| Description | Blog: 'A Museum for All Americans' on the Antislavery Early Research Association website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This is a blog reflecting on a research visit to the National Museum of African American History, in Washington DC. Undertaken as part of my PhD research for my ASUP-funded PhD examining how the museum engaged with antislavery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://antislaveryera.com/category/blog/page/1/ |
| Description | Blog: 'Digital Project Launch: Legacies on Display' on the Antislavery Usable Past Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a blog written to coincide with the launch of the 'Legacies on Display: Slavery in Museums' online collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Blog: 'Examining the place of transatlantic slavery in Britain's public memory' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A blog examining the place of transatlantic slavery in Britain's public memory and discussing the relevance of 'Remembering 1807', the digital archive of commemorative materials from 2007 (the bicentenary of the 1807 Abolition Act), part of the Antislavery Usable Past collection of online resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://wilberforceinstitute.uk/2021/01/07/examining-the-place-of-transatlantic-slavery-in-britains-... |
| Description | Blog: Testimonies from the front line of nineteenth-century British abolitionism |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article to publicise new monograph on Liverpool University Press blog |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Book Launch event in Oslo Norway |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | My book #SlaveTech, co-authored with Catharina Drejer was published by a Norwegian think tank - with first launch event for the book at a large event in Oslo. Attended by government officials and policy makers/civil society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://skaperkraft.no/publikasjoner/bok/bok/article/1493384 |
| Description | Book discussion of Donington, Hanley and Moody, Britain's history and memory of slavery (Liverpool University Press, 2016), University of Oxford, 24 May 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard alehouses to country estates. Today, its financial, architectural and societal legacies remain, scattered across the country in museums and memorials, philanthropic institutions and civic buildings, empty spaces and unmarked graves. Just as they did in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British people continue to make sense of this 'national sin' by looking close to home, drawing on local histories and myths to negotiate their relationship to the distant horrors of the 'Middle Passage', and the Caribbean plantation. This collection brings together localised case studies of Britain's history and memory of its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, and slavery. Editor and author Ryan Hanley (Fellow in History, University of Oxford) joins an expert panel to discuss these essays, ranging in focus from eighteenth-century Liverpool to twenty-first-century rural Cambridgeshire, from racist ideologues to Methodist preachers, examining how transatlantic slavery impacted on, and continues to impact, people and places across Britain. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Building an Antislavery Research Agenda |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nottingham Trent University research day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Centre for the Study of International Slavery at the University of Liverpool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | I introduced the Antislavery Usable Past project at a seminar organised by the Centre for the Study of International Slavery at the University of Liverpool, and then spoke about 'Commemorating slavery and abolition in the UK: heritage, memory and activism'. This provoked questions and discussion about the ways in which commemorative practice can offer a platform for campaigns against contemporary slavery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Clapham's Saints and Sinners - Local History Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This talk used Clapham's local history of slave-owners and abolitionists to engage the Clapham Society with some of the themes raised by the Antislavery Usable Past project. There were around 40 people in attendance. Audience members were very engaged and asked lots of questions. They reported that they were largely unaware of the presence of slave-owners in Clapham and it complicated their view of the local history. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://claphamsociety.com/news/a-talk-in-clapham-by-dr-katie-donington/ |
| Description | Closed consultation meeting with the OSCE/ODIHR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Consultant in a closed consultation meeting hosted by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. Consultation concerned the OSCE/ODIHR National Referral Mechanism Handbook, and discussions fed directly into changes to the new edition of this Handbook--a tool which reaches policymakers and practitioners across the OSCE's 57 Participating States and beyond. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | Co-ordinator for Black History Month 2016 at the University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Organised Black History Month event titled 'Beyond the Wall: Murals as Activism' at the New Art Exchange, Nottingham which was a film screening of 'Beyond the Wall' followed by a panel discussion on the efficacy of murals, as well as a celebration of Nottingham's first Black history mural. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Co-ordinator for Black History Month 2016 at the University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Organised a lecture to be given by Professor Manisha Sinha from the University of Connecticut titled The Slave's Cause |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Co-organiser for workshop 'Scholarship with Survivors' University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Co-organised an event that connected scholars and academics of contemporary slavery with survivors of contemporary slavery to ensure survivor voices are central in this line of research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Co-organiser of a workshop 'to explore current projects and future directions for digital heritage projects in and around Hull' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 20 participants from the University of Hull, Hull Museums, Hull History Centre and Hull Heritage Learning attended a workshop to hear presentations and engage in discussion about digital heritage projects in and around Hull. The workshop sparked questions and debate, and provided opportunities for participants to make connections for future collaborations based around digital heritage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Collaborating to End Slavery by 2030 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Staff Development training for Campaigns Officers about modern slavery |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Comentary - 'Remembering Racism: Will History Fall with Rhodes?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Commentary on the Rhodes Must Fall movement brought to public attention and fostered a dialogue with key figures in the movement. Commentary to be used as a teaching resource by external actor. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://blog.antislavery.ac.uk/2016/05/27/remembering-racism-will-history-fall-with-rhodes/ |
| Description | Commentary - 'From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Engaging the Maangamizi: Intergenerational Justice and Repair' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Report on the conference hosted as part of the Antislavery Usable Past project for the general public to keep the activities of the grant team in the public eye. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://blog.antislavery.ac.uk/2016/07/01/from-the-transatlantic-slave-trade-to-engaging-the-maangam... |
| Description | Commentary - Knowing the Chains: Corporate Reporting under the Modern Slavery Act |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Commentary on corporate reporting under the Modern Slavery Act to raise public awareness. Request for material to be used as a teaching resource in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://blog.antislavery.ac.uk/2016/12/30/knowing-the-chains-corporate-reporting-under-the-modern-sl... |
| Description | Community Heritage Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Our BAME Community Heritage Day in June 2016 brought together Midlands-based Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community groups to share their historical research and to discuss with academics and heritage representatives how heritage venues present BAME histories. Community and academic participants presented their research findings through talks and small exhibitions, heritage organisation representatives presented good practice examples, and all engaged in roundtable discussions about the presentation of BAME histories. It developed a series of "triplet" relationships, where an academic, a community/activist representative and a heritage representative committed to working together on changing a specific presentation of BAME history in heritage venues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/c3r/news-events/current-events/bame-community-history-a... |
| Description | Conference (York) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Keynote address, 'Rethinking the Boundaries of anti-Slavery', at conference at York St John, 23 June 2016. Approximately 30 people present. Address provoked lengthy debate and discussion and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Convened 'From the Tranatlantic Slave Trade to Engaging the Maangamizi: Intergenerational Justie and Repair' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with David Archard, the PI on the Care for the Future's Exploratory Award entitled "Generating Justice: The social, legal, political and ethical issues of ensuring justice across generations", Prof Jean Allain and Katarina Schwarz hosted a two-day event on 29 and 30 June 2016, entitled: From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Engaging the Maangamizi at Queen's University Belfast. The first day of the event featured a Public Forum - an Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights and Justice co-hosted with the African and Caribbean Support Network of Northern Ireland (ACSONI) entitled Dealing with the Past, Looking to the Future. A pre-Conference Workshop entitled Historical Injustice and Reparations took place on the second day, co-hosted by Dr Jeremy Watkins (QUB Philosophy) and coinciding with the Royal Institute of Philosophy's Annual Conference of the Society of Applied Philosophy held in Belfast. The Public Forum focused on community engagement, working with ACSONI to reach out to the local African and Caribbean communities as well as the broader public. Scholar activists, academics, and public officials from across the UK and Ireland were brought together to discuss research, activism, and policy with the participants. Presenters engaged with the feedback, questions, and views of the public, creating multilateral discourse. Irish experiences of colonialism and anti-imperialism were acknowledged, building solidarity between people of African descent in Northern Ireland and the Irish Catholic community. This solidarity was recognised as being crucial to dealing with racial violence and discrimination within Northern Ireland. The Public Forum was framed around the question 'what is the Maangamizi?' introducing a concept developed by scholar-activists of African descent into both the public and academic discourse. The Maangamizi - the African holocaust of chattel, colonial, and neo-colonial enslavement perpetrated by Europeans and their prodigy - is a term central to many reparations and justice movements seeking to address the suffering of people of African descent. Guest speakers included internationally acclaimed reparationist, advocate and radio broadcaster Esther Stanford-Xosei, Dr Nathaniel Tobias Coleman, Dr Kwesi Tsri, Dr Christopher Stange - Hon. Consul for St Vincent and the Grenadines to Northern Ireland, Minister of Finance Mairtin O'Muilleor MLA, Michael McEachrane, and Elly Odhiambo. The pre-Conference Workshop sought to settle the Maangamizi into the academic discourse through constructive dialogue between mainstream academics, scholar activists, and representatives from the Public Forum. Participants presented academic papers on issues relating to intergenerational justice and repair, with particular consideration of the place of marginalised communities and persons within their research. The importance of engaging with the voices of those people was consistently highlighted, and the ideas and language of activist communities was discussed and incorporated into the scholarship. Rather than simply seeking to disseminate information to the public, this two day event promoted active engagement of both the public, activists, and academics, enriching the academic discourse through consideration of concepts developed by scholar-activists. The Forum also helped to engage a broader audience with issues associated with the past, whilst respecting for the voices of marginalised persons and their contributions. The event created a unique opportunity for the development of networks including academics, scholar-activists, activists, public officials and members of local communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Paper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave paper entitled, '"Unarmed People Are Slaves': Using 19th Century Abolitionist Aesthetics in the 1960s Radical Movement" at Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, Hull, October 16-17, 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Conference Paper - Anti-Slavery and Trafficking PhD School, Masaryk University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Conference paper titled 'Historical Wrongs, Contemporary Rights: Reconsidering Reparations for the Maangamizi' presented at the Anti-slavery and Trafficking PhD School organised by the Antislavery Usable Past and Utrecht Network, hosted at Masaryk University, Brno. The presentation sparked in depth discussion with established academics and PhD researchers working in the field, and fostered the development of a community of likeminded early career researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Paper - From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Engaging the Maangamizi: Historical Injustice and Reparations Conference, Queen's University Belfast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference paper titled 'Wrong to Remedy: Evolving Law to Redress Historical Injustices' presented to an audience of academics, reparations activists and members of the public sparking a rich dialogue between different actors in the field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Paper - Human Rights Centre Postgraduate Conference, Queen's University Belfast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Conference paper titled 'Redressing the Past in Post-Colonial States: Historical Injustice and International Reparations' presented to a wide audience of PhD Candidates from across Europe and to academics. This event sparked dialogue between postgraduate researchers and established academics, and the discussion session on the paper created meaningful dialogue on the issues explored. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Paper, 'Antislavery in the Museum: From nostalgic memorial to active campaign space,' at the CLAW annual conference 'Transforming Public History From Charleston to the Atlantic World', College of Charleston, SC. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 30 professional practitioners and academics attended the ASUP panel, 'Reimaginging the Boundaries of Antislavery: History, Heritage and Community Engagement' on which I gave a paper about the development of engagement with antislavery in UK museums over the past century. This prompted questions and discussion afterwards about the role of museums in representing antislavery, the challenges faced by museums doing this, and the difference in narratives between UK and US institutions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Conference Paper, 'Commemorating Challenging Histories: Antislavery in Museums,' Challenging Histories Network Conference, Cardiff University. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Around 60 academics, students and heritage professionals attended a talk on the development of museum interpretation and antislavery. There were lots of interesting questions and discussions afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Paper, 'Legacies on Display: Antislavery in Museums,' University of Hull, History Postgraduate Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 20 students were in the audience for this presentation on the development of antislavery in museums over the last century. This led to questions and discussions after. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Paper, 'Reviewing the Campaign: Antislavery in Museum Interpretation,' Teeside University, Heritage Consortium Annual Conference (AHRC funded) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 40 postgraduate students, academics and heritage professionals attended this presentation about the research project. This led to questions and further discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Paper, 'The Antislavery Usable Past,' Social History Curators Group Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 60 people attended the presentation which debated the role of ethics in discussions of antislavery as a topic of museum interpretation. This raised questions and further discussions, and several attendees followed up with emails stating they were thinking about changing their own current practise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Presentation, Liverpool: '1807-2007 in Historical Perspective' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation at Historians Against Slavery Conference, ISM, 7-8 October 2017. Presentation was pat of a panel on 'Remembering 1807', designed to introduce the new database of the same name. About 40-50 people present, including students, practitioners and members of the general public. Panel provoked a lively discussion and requests for further information. Events was part of ongoing promotion of 'Remembering 1807'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.antislavery.ac.uk |
| Description | Conference paper at INOSAAR conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Conference paper presentation at the INOSAAR international conference in Porto Novo, Benin. The presentation 'Reconsidering Legal Redress for Historic Injustice: The Impact of Multiple Modalities of Reparatory Justice in International Law' made a notable impact on conference discussions, as the only legal contribution in a conference in which participants and attendees (including local royalty) were deeply engaged in the issues under discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Conference presentation at Critical Modern Slavery Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conference paper titled 'Reconceptualising the definition of slavery and the maangamizi: the colonial contours of slavery in international law' presented at the Critical Modern Slavery conference hosted at the University of Hull, sparking questions and discussion, with audience members reporting change in perspectives on the issue. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Contribution of online resources to the Museum of the Royal Navy's Black History Month 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Contribution of online resources to 'Black History in the Royal Navy', part of Black History Month 2020 at the Museum of the Royal Navy, including a blog, short film and roundtable discussion about the Royal Navy's anti-slave-trade operations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.nmrn.org.uk/black-history-month |
| Description | Contributor to "Memory and Activist Art" week as part of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on 'Ending Slavery: Strategies for Contemporary Global Abolition' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Created digital archive map titled 'Murals of Race, Resistance and Abolition' that was used in a MOOC course titled 'Ending Slavery: Strategies for Contemporary Global Abolition,' with 7,000 participants from across the world. Gave individual responses to participant's questions and queries on various murals, their function and their value. Received over 6,000 views on the digital archive map from 52 countries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/slavery/1/steps/122989 |
| Description | Contributor to Faculty Teaching Institute on Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American at the Museum of African American History, Boston |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Provided teachers from the Boston area with materials about the importance of anti-slavery murals as a tool for unofficially preserving history, as well as the contemporary impact of Frederick Douglass's memory and legacy in African American communities. Shared digital mural map, 'Murals of Race Resistance and Abolition,' as a tool for teachers to discuss the power of art in public memory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Creator of 'Murals of Race, Resistance and Abolition' Digital Archive Map |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Creator of a digital map that brings together, for the first time, a collection of all U.S. murals connected to themes of abolition, anti-slavery history, Black Power, black protest and resistance. This has been a successful learning tool for the general public, as well as undergraduate students at the University of Nottingham in a first year module called 'Approaches to American Culture,' and a Level 3 module at Brigham Young University, Utah titled 'Freedom and Slavery |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/hanjeffers.p1mje5fp/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiaGFuamVmZmVycyIs... |
| Description | Curator of 'Murals of Resistance and Abolition' for 'Anti-Slavery Then and Now' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Creating an extensive digital archive of every US-based mural pertaining to slavery, abolition and anti-slavery resistance. The archive will be the first instance where all these murals of the past and present are brought together under the theme of 'Anti-Slavery.' The collection will also highlight the efficacy of murals as a protest tool in raising awareness of slavery and contemporary slavery, whilst also offering suggestions on how to create community murals around the world. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| Description | Curator of American Studies Innovations: Postgraduate Reading Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Currently run a monthly postgraduate reading group where we discuss topics relating to race, rights and slavery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Database Launch at UN |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Antislavery Legislation Database Launch 12 February 2020, 10-11:30AM Conference Room 8, United Nations Headquarters Join us for the launch of the Antislavery Legislation Database, a resource compiled by Professor Jean Allain (Monash University) and Dr Katarina Schwarz (Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham) to improve global access to anti-slavery legislation worldwide. This comprehensive, interactive online database maps all UN Member States' domestic legislation against international anti-slavery commitments, covering slavery, the slave trade, servitude, forced labour, institutions and practices similar to slavery, and human trafficking. It provides an important new resource for policy actors, researchers and advocates. It further serves as a touchstone to monitor States' commitment to taking 'immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking' by 2030, as captured in UN Sustainable Development Goal 8.7. Speakers Professor Jean Allain, Associate Dean, Monash University. Dr Katarina Schwarz, Associate Director (Law and Policy Programme), the Rights Lab and Assistant Professor of Antislavery Law and Policy, University of Nottingham. Ambassador (ret.) Luis C.deBaca, Senior Fellow, Yale MacMillan Center, and former US Ambassador-at-large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Dr Laura Gauer Bermudez, Director of Evidence and Learning, Global Fund to End Modern Slavery. Moderator Dr James Cockayne, Director, United Nations University Centre for Policy Research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/antislavery-legislation-database-launch-tickets-89133999191 |
| Description | Decolonising the Archive: Congo Antislavery Visual Culture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In March 2019, I discussed the Congo Antislavery Visual Culture project and specifically the work Yole!Africa had produced for ASUP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Delta 8.7 Online Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Contriubution to an online symposium hosted on the United Nations University Center for Policy Research and Alliance 8.7. knowledge platform, Delta8.7. In this Symposium, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequesnces provides an overview of her September 2019 thematic report presented to the UN Human Rights Council. Delta 8.7 invited Ms Nat Paul from the National Survivor Network, Dr Laura Gauer Bermudez and Sindhu Sagar from the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS) and Dr Katarina Schwarz from the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham to reflect on and respond to the Special Rapporteur's report and introduction. The Special Rapporteur, in turn, responded to their contributions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://delta87.org/2019/10/symposium-tomorrows-slavery-today/ |
| Description | Demonstration of Remembering 1807 digital archive at Leeds West Indian Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of the 'Remembering 1807' digital archive to a group of researchers from Leeds West Indian Centre who had contributed materials from their project in 2007 for inclusion in the collection. The group were pleased with the results and reported they would spread the word about the digital archive among users of the Centre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Demonstration of Remembering 1807 digital archive at the launch of 'Legacies on Display: Slavery in Museums' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of the Remembering 1807 archive at a public launch event for the 'Legacies on Display' digital collection at the Wilberforce Institute, Hull. The audience included members of the general public, who expressed an interest in using and contributing to the collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | DigitalGlobe ENGAGE EMEAR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talk to industry: "Slavery from Space." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Distinguished World Affairs Lecture, Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Additional talks while there at: University of Utah Hinckley Institute forum, Weber State University, Utah Valley University, Brigham Young University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKXf1GwaASc |
| Description | Draw for the Future |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public event, with talks and performances, to unveil a new Black History Mural iin Nottingham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.nae.org.uk/page/pathways-mural/1004 |
| Description | Empires of Charity workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A talk at the University of Warwick's Poverty Research Network workshop, looking to explore the relationship between systems of charity and imperialism. I spoke about the British anti-slavery cause in nineteenth-century West Africa, provoking questions about how abolitionism can become intertwined with concepts of imperialism, philanthropy and humanitarianism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/research/poverty/events/empirescharity |
| Description | Ending Global Slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | TedX talk, live with video recording available online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ending Global Slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | University of Nottingham College of Benefactors dinner keynote |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Ending Global Slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Global Perspectives EMDoc PGR Conference Keynote |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Ending Modern Slavery. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 2017-18 Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture, University College London, for International Women's Day and Women's History Month. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ending Slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Address to the Forward Institute Change Maker Workshop by Zoe Trodd |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Ending Slavery MOOC engagement (May 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The second time that the world's first ever massive open online course about contemporary slavery in partnership with FutureLearn was run (May 2017). A four-week course delivered by experts at the cutting edge of historical and contemporary human rights research. Free and open to anyone - there were 1000+ learners on teh second iteration. The course is designed to try and increase awareness of slavery and the strategies used to combat it. The participants were engaged, read the material and took part in online dialogues with each other and with the facilitators. I facilitated for the week focused mainly on historical material. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/slavery |
| Description | Ending Slavery MOOC engagement (October 2016) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The world's first ever massive open online course about contemporary slavery in partnership with FutureLearn. A four-week course delivered by experts at the cutting edge of historical and contemporary human rights research. Free and open to anyone - there were 7000 participants. The course is designed to try and increase awareness of slavery and the strategies used to combat it. The participants were engaged, read the material and took part in online dialogues with each other and with the facilitators. I facilitated for the week focused mainly on historical material. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/slavery |
| Description | Engaged Research for Ending Slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Conference keynote at "The Grand Challenge of Sustainability" conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Event, 'Wilberforce House Speaks: Campaign and Resistance,' at Wilberforce House Museum, Hull. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The event, run in conjunction with Heritage Learning and Hull Museums, delivered guided tours of Wilberforce House Museum to 65 people over the day. It was the first time anything like this had been held at the museum, with interpretation brought to life by actors and musicians. The aim of the day was to highlight the nuanced nature of the abolition campaign, and the work still to be done to address slavery in the modern world. Questions and discussion after the tour focussed on the role of the public in the antislavery campaign today, the degree to which enslaved people were responsible for their own emancipation and the work museums can do to engage public further. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Expert training on modern slavery and trafficking for the Government of Guernsey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The government of the Bailiwick of Guernsey asked for help to: train local law enforcement, social services staff, housing staff, social security staff, child protection staff, members of the Guernsey 'parliament' and NGO partners in how to identify and address cases of human trafficking and modern slavery. As the Bailiwick is not covered by UK law, it also asked for advice on how to write its own new legislation to address trafficking and slavery. We provided to expert trainers, one for law enforcement and one for frontline services, we assisted them in planning their own taskforce and plan for how to deal with emergency cases. We agreed to continue advising legislation writers as they formulate new laws to address this crime. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Featured story on the the PBS TV programme 'Global Perspectives'. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This is a serious interview current events 30 minute programme with John Bersia, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. It is syndicated through the US Public Broadcasting System reaching an audience in the low millions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.pbs.org/video/2365948911/ |
| Description | Freedom X (Hull) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Address, 'William Wilberforce: Lessons from the Past, at Freedom X, Hull, 19 November 2016. Approximately 200 people present. No discussions but subsequent emails from people wanting more information and a request from the organisers to give an expanded version of the same talk, possibly as a Wilberforce Lecture, under the auspices of the Wilberforce Lecture Trust (Hull City Council). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Gave evidence to Air Space Tribunal - Tribunal inquiring into issues relating to moving towards a new human right to protect the freedom to exist without physical or psychological threat from above |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Description:The Airspace Tribunal: towards a new human right to protect the freedom to exist without physical or psychological threat from above - first in a series of Tribunals taking evidence toward moving a new right within the UN framework. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Global multiple platform launch of Global Slavery Index |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This launch included ALL of the options listed above under the 'select one' engagement activity. Its impact includes ALL of the options below under 'What do you consider was the most significant outcome/impact of this activity?' I've highlighted 'decision made' since governments altered policy based on this Launch. Topline outcomes: - Substantial global coverage across principal wires, broadcasters, print and digital media. In excess of 2000+ top line media articles across all core markets lead by Brazil, India, USA, United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy and Germany (*excludes regional and local coverage) - Key coverage secured in key global and important national broadcasters media such as BBC World, CNN, Channel News Asia, NDTV India, South Africa Broadcasting Corporation, O Globo Brazil, Sky News, Al jazeera - All main wires ran with the story including Associated Press, Press Association, Reuters, Bloomberg, Australian Associated Press as well as the main national wires covering the French (Agence France Press), Spanish (EFE), Portuguese (Lusa) and German (DPA) language markets - Key global and regional print media included The Hindustan Times, The Times, The Guardian, South China Morning Post, New York Times, Forbes, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, El Pais, Der Spiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, La Repubblica - 201 Million Twitter impressions over the 48 hour launch period - Most popular tweets and re-tweets were by Bill Gates, Hilary Clinton, Russell Crowe, Richard Branson, AP, and UN Women - Media mentions in 159 countries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Guest Lecture on 'Memory and Resistance in Visual Culture,' for 'Slavery and Liberation' Anti-Slavery Usable Past MA Module, Department of Politics, University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Filmed in a Q & A setting discussing the efficacy of murals as a form of education, for an online taught masters programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Guest Lecturer, 'Slavery, Abolition and Resistance,' Level 3 module, Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave a a guest lecture on how an anti-slavery memory is incorporated into community murals in the US, focusing on murals of the Black Power Movement, but also ending with a discussion on murals of #BlackLivesMatter. Students gave visual analysis to murals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Guest Speaker on undergraduate module 'Representing Slavery, Abolition and Resistance' (University of Nottingham) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I gave a guest talk about commemorating slavery and abolition in the UK, with examples from the 2007 bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. This provoked questions and discussion relating to the seminar's themes of exhibiting slavery, museums and heritage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Heritage Plaque to Ida B. Wells |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 11 February, I worked with Nubian Jak Heritage Organisation to unveil a heritage plaque to formerly enslaved activist Ida B. Wells in Birmingham. We had a min. of 50 attend the unveiling, including a live Skype chat with one of Wells' descendants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Historians Against Slavery Conference 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This year Historians Against Slavery (HAS) held its biennial conference outside of the United States for the first time at the International Slavery Museum (ISM) in Liverpool, UK. The two-day conference was part of a series of events during the 10th Anniversary of the ISM and also marked UK Black History Month 2017. It was co-hosted by the Antislavery Usable Past project along with HAS, the ISM, and the Centre for the Study of International Slavery (University of Liverpool). Connecting past with present, the conference aimed to deepen dialogue and collaboration between scholars, teachers, activists and community representatives, and build coalitions for antislavery scholarship and activism. This was achieved by bringing together a distinguished body of leading scholars, museum professionals and antislavery activists from around the world, reflecting on cutting-edge scholarship and debating practical examples of how history can inform contemporary efforts to end the enslavement of 40.3 million people worldwide.The conference generated a lot of interest. It was free to attend and delegates registered via the Eventbrite platform. Those who registered learnt about the conference via Historians Against Slavery publicity, the International Slavery Museum website and social media, the organisers' twitter feeds, the Antislavery Usable Past project and other channels. 120 people attended the event including speakers and the team. The delegates included representatives from UK and international universities; a variety of NGOs and antislavery organisations; schools; public bodies; students and interested members of the public.This successful event challenged perspectives on the use of the history of slavery within today's antislavery movement. By holding the event at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool the delegates were surrounded by meaningful historical representation and also celebrated the 10th anniversary of the museum. The overall response was very positive and provided an opportunity for people involved or interested in the modern slavery movement to network and share thoughts, responses and ideas with others. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/2017-conference-october-7-8-2017/ |
| Description | Historians Against Slavery and the Usable Past |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to launch the UK branch of the international organisation Historians Against Slavery, at the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/2016/05/has-uk-off-to-a-terrific-start/ |
| Description | Historic present, past tense: Making public history / making history public, seminar paper, Reconfiguring the British seminar, Institute of Historical Research, 21 Oct 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar paper on the representation of slavery and empire in museum culture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.history.ac.uk/events/event/14593 |
| Description | History education and transatlantic slavery, British Academy Workshop, Museum of London in Docklands, Jun 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Transatlantic slavery and its abolition continues to be taught widely in secondary schools across Britain. This workshop is designed to give teachers and other education professionals access to current academic scholarship and new pedagogical approaches to teaching this history. The event will contribute towards building a network of educators to offer leadership for the transformation of teaching and learning about transatlantic slavery in our schools and other educational environments. This workshop will be an opportunity to share ideas and to think about the development of guidelines for effective practice and scholarship that can be available to schools in the coming year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.slaveryandpublichistoryuk.com/blog/review-history-education-and-transatlantic-colonial-sl... |
| Description | Home Office NRM review |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Consultant in an expert meeting in the review of the UK's National Referral Mechanism, with discussions feeding directly into the Home Office review of the National Referral Mechanism and planned changes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hosted a two-day event: From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Engaging the Maangamizi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hosted, in Belfast, a two-day event: From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Engaging the Maangamizi The first day was an open invitation to the African and Caribbean diaspora of Ireland to engage in discussions in regard to the wrong visited upon Africa over the last 500 years. This was co-hosted with the African and Carribean Support Network of Northern Ireland. On day two an academic conference was held with the the Royal Institute of Philosophy's Society of Applied Philosophy in which consideration were given to reparative justice and the issue of reparations. This two day event was a follow-on from the AHRC funded Reparations and Beyond Conference held at the University of Edinburgh in November 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://blog.antislavery.ac.uk/2016/07/01/from-the-transatlantic-slave-trade-to-engaging-the-maangam... |
| Description | How to End Slavery: The Rights Lab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | All-Campus Research Roadshow, repeat multi-venue talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Imagining the Creole, School Talk, Latymer Grammar School, London, 21 October 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | School curriculum enrichment session examining the history of slavery and race in Jamaica and Britain. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Improving Policing on Modern Slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Day long meetings working with local and regional police forces on improving their response to modern slavery |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ingenious Antislavery Ideas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Ingenuity18 Ideas Summit: keynote talk and afternoon workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ingenuity18 Ideas Summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at industry event: "Ingenious Antislavery Ideas." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past, University of York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | I participated in a workshop at the University of York exploring public understandings and uses of the past, and practices of public history. In discussions I introduced the work of the Antislavery Usable Past project and the research involved in creating the 'Remembering Slavery 1807-2007' digital archive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/ipup/events/conferences/ipup-international-workshop/ |
| Description | International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (webinar) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar by Hannah-Rose Murray for the Survivor Alliance about the historical legacies of the global slavery trade and how our contemporary antislavery movement needs an awareness of history for a survivor-led movement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | International Law Association Bienniel conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conference paper presented at the International Law Association's bienniel conference in Sydney, Australia 'Prohibiting Slavery, Criminalising Enslavement: The Failures of the International Regime Governing Human Exploitation'. This sparked lively questioning and discussion amongst the audience of international lawyers, academics, legal practitioners, and other interested stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | International Society of Barristers Annual Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote titled "The Freedom Blueprint." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Interview and filming with lead Dutch newspaper and news outlet on methodological advances in slavery measurement. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hour interview (filmed) turned into feature article in main newspaper and an online film on the issue. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/01/19/waarom-er-nu-403-miljoen-slaven-zijn-a1588994?utm_source=SIM&ut... |
| Description | Interview with Grid online magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In-depth interview of 1450 words focussing on my work on the relationship between modern slavery and environmental destruction. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.gridphilly.com/grid-magazine/2016/3/28/our-generation-could-stop-the-horror-of-slavery |
| Description | Interview with Peter Beauount, the Guardian |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview linked to early 2018 slavery and trafficking events and political initiatives |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Interviewed by Guardian on release of UK government audit report on Home Office efforts to enforce anti-slavery legislation Dec 18 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview included in Guardian article on on Audit Office review of Home Office anti-slavery work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Joint Submission to the Foreign Affairs and Aid Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Parliament of Australia, in regard to its Inquiry into Establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia, (with Jean Allain, Heli Askola, Andrew Crane, and Marie Segrave), April 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Joint Submission to the Foreign Affairs and Aid Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Parliament of Australia, in regard to its Inquiry into Establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia, (with Jean Allain, Heli Askola, Andrew Crane, and Marie Segrave), April 2017. Covered widely in press and media, both within Australia and in the UK. Several keys points carried into the new legislation. Use of new measurement techniques, such as MSE, highlighted. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Joint launch of Walk Free/Rights Lab/ILO/IOM global estimtes at UN General Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Launch of first-ever collaborative prevalence estimates between UN, Walk Free (including Notts Rights Lab), ILO, and IOM - ending years of disputed numbers. Google shows 1.5 million hits on this specific launch and topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_574717/lang--en/index.htm |
| Description | Katie Donington, 'Review of Roots (2016)', BBC History Magazine (Mar 2017). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Review of the new TV production of Roots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/roots-a-necessary-portrayal-of-transatlantic-slavery/ |
| Description | Katie Donington, 'Should historical place names be changed to fit modern values?', BBC History Magazine (May 2017). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Three historians discuss the legacies of Edward Colston in Bristol within the context of the debates surrounding the removal of historic statues in both the UK and the USA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/should-historical-place-names-be-changed-to-fit-modern-v... |
| Description | Keynote - National Conference Gangmasters Licensing Authority |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introducing new statistical techniques and other breakthroughs to the sharp end of slavery detection and response - key government agency with enforcement powers, but needful of statistical backup and guidance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Keynote Address, annual International Trust Conference (Thompson-Reuters) 15 Nov 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Keynote on breakthroughs in slavery research methodologies, key result was that within minutes of keynote Trust Conference trended to Number 3 for entire UK on twitter as hundreds tweeted and re-tweeted slides from my presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.trustconference.com/videos/i/?id=319075a4-42c4-461c-8df3-877e07a3cdd3&confYear=2017 |
| Description | Keynote CogX Conference London 21 June (Annual Meeting of Artificial Intelligence Experts) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to speak on use of new measurement techniques in antislavery work, plus our use of AI in slave location detection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Keynote Freedom Fund Int'l Slavery Day Conference, London, 2 Dec. 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference with international representation of CEOs, politicians (the Sec of State for Overseas Development spoke after me); large NGOs, significant philanthropists (4 individuals there each represented more that £1billion in assets). Freedom Fund is the largest funder and largest group that intervenes and liberates slaves in the world. I sit on the Board of Trustees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Keynote Speech, Legatum Institute/Freedom Fund Conference 2 Dec. 2016 Tackling Slavery to Promote Freedom and Prosperity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | High level conference hosted by Legatum Institute - @ 150 in attendance including Sec. of State for Development; Baroness Stroud; several MPs; CEOs of international human rights groups; Princess Mabel of Netherlands, etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.li.com/events/tackling-slavery-to-promote-freedom-and-prosperity |
| Description | Keynote address St Lake City World Affairs Forum, introduced by Attorney General. Also filmed and released online. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | While a public event, the audience of about 300 people included many of the State's leading officials, as well as key philanthropists and academics. Surrounding the event were a series of other media interviews. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKXf1GwaASc |
| Description | Keynote at LUSH Summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | LUSH is an international cosmetics company dedicated to slave-free supply chains, their Summits bring together hundreds of NGOs with their employees. My keynote brought together the issues of modern slavery, supply chains, environmental destruction, and how new research methods were addressing these. Presentation was filmed and will be posted, but has not been posted as of this entry, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Keynote, national conference: "Meeting the challenge: ending slavery by 2030" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote talk to the "Meeting the challenge: ending slavery by 2030" national conference at U. of Nottingham Nov 9 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Launch of 'Remembering 1807' database (London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This event took place at London Docklands Museum on 20 September 2017. The audience was made up of practitioners and members of the general public, the majority of the them from the BAME community. The events consisted of an introduction and launch by members of the ASUP team. Professor Catherine Hall also spoke, There was a very lively discussion afterwards. This was followed up by a personal meeting with Arthur Torrington, co-chair of the Windrush Trust and a prominent member of British black community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.antislavery.ac.uk |
| Description | Launch of 'Remembering 1807' database (Hull) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This event took place at the Wilberforce Institute in Hull on 29 August 2017. Guests included Professor James Walvin and Lord John Prescott. The event consisted of an introduction/launch and discussion -- which created considerable interests and further requests for information. Flyers were subsequently distributed via the local branch of the Historical Association and there have been requests to present the archive in local schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.antislavery.ac.uk |
| Description | Launch of Global Slavery Index 2018 - United Nations New York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Launch of 2018 Global Slavery Index at United Nations New York - the launch included formal event in the UN, series of other meetings with UN depts, media, NGOs, presentations to sub-groups, and a number of media interviews. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/beacons-of-excellence/rights-lab/news/2018/july/global-slavery... |
| Description | Launch of Historians Against Slavery UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In April 2016 we launched a UK branch of the international organisation Historians Against Slavery (HAS). We invited 30 historians based in the UK, as well as the US directors of HAS, two of our key partners - the director of the International Slavery Museum and the director of Antislavery International - to come to this inaugural workshop. We had sessions on the contributions of historians to the work of the heritage sector and to the work of antislavery NGOs, as well as a session on digital projects we might do together. We followed up with a request to members for profiles (for a new HAS-UK database), contributions to our major HAS conference, and network ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/2016/05/has-uk-off-to-a-terrific-start/ |
| Description | Lawyers Guild Hour Radio Show (USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Radio programme for lawyers, interviewed about recent work on UK legislation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lead organizer of a heritage plaque to Ida B. Wells, with the Nubian Jak Heritage Plaque Scheme and English Heritage, 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Project that includes the unveiling of a plaque in memory of African American activist Ida B. Wells who visited Britain in 1893 and 1894 in collaboration with the Nubian Jak Heritage Association.This will also involve other public engagement activities including workshops, lectures and teaching resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Lecture for MA Heritage & Education at Bishop Grosseteste University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 7 MA students attended a lecture delivered on the theme of 'Consuming Heritage', which sparked questions and significant discussion afterwards, and the course convenor reported increased interest in the topic, with students going on to include this in their assessments and utilise resources produced from this project, such as antislavery.ac.uk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Legislation database workshop with US governmental agencies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on the Antislavery in Domestic Legislation database and platform with US governmental agencies hosted by the US State Department. Actors from a variety of key agencies were present, with possibilities for future collaboration and engagement discussed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Liaison in the preservation of Cityarts Workshop/CITYarts Inc. archives to the New-York Historical Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Successfully assisted in the protection and preservation of Cityarts Workshop/CITYarts Inc. archives to the New-York Historical Society. These archives contain information on the inception of anti-slavery murals. Met with current director of CITYarts Inc., Tsipi Ben-Haim, to assess the archive collection (from 1968-present) and offer advice on their value, whilst also highlighting the specific materials/files researchers are interested in. Co-authored a letter of support to the New-York Historical Society outlining the importance of archiving the materials in their institution, and as such, the archive collection is currently being process for permanent housing in the Patricia D. Klingsenstein Library at the New-York Historical Society |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Long interview on Rights Track Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interview/host reported changed views, and strong feedback from audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.rightstrack.org/episode/4 |
| Description | Lush Summit - Panel on Mica Production and Supply Chain 14 Jan 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The mineral mica is used in cosmetics, but also has a 'dirty' origin of child labour and slavery in the main export country - India. Panel discussion including business executives and supply chains specialists on how best to reduce exploitation in mica supply chain. Panel was filmed but has not yet been posted. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with Arthur Torrington (London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Arthur Torrington CBE, co-founder of the Windrush Foundation, in London, 20 November 2017, to discuss 'Remembering 1807' and ASUP more broadly. This meeting was part of follow-up discussions with members of the local black community following the launch of 'Remembering 1807' at London Docklands Museum (20 September 2017), designed to explain the wider purpose of the ASUP Project and to explore how we might work together to promote our work among the black community in London. Following the meeting there was a further email correspondence with Arthur Torrington that led to some amendments (really clarifying statements and some first lessons from the project) to the ASUP website. These discussions are ongoing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.antislavery.ac.uk |
| Description | Meeting with Arthur Torrington (Windrush Foundation Co-Founder) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Arthur Torrington CBE, co-founder of the Windrush Foundation, in London, 20 November 2017, to discuss 'Remembering 1807' and ASUP more broadly. This meeting was part of follow-up discussions with members of the local black community following the launch of 'Remembering 1807' at London Docklands Museum (20 September 2017), designed to explain the wider purpose of the ASUP Project and to explore how we might work together to promote our work among the black community in London. Following the meeting there was a further email correspondence with Arthur Torrington that led to some amendments (really clarifying statements and some first lessons from the project) to the ASUP website. These discussions are ongoing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with legislative drafting team, Bailiwick of Guernsey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Bailiwick of Guernsey is re-writing its laws on sexual offences, with an eye to passing laws equivalent to the UK Modern Slavery Act of 2015, this session with legislative drafters explored a series of topics relevant to contemporary slavery - consent, appropriate penalties, role of supply chain inspection, links to money laundering, intersection with migration, etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Modern slavery panel discussion on BBC World |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion on modern slavery on BBC World Impact Minds programming, which sparked communication from actors around the world on the topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Multiple Systems Estimation (MSE) webinar in collaboration with Freedom Collaborative |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This live webinar's objective was to educate listeners on how Multiple Systems Estimation (MSE), the statistical estimation tool, can support and galvanize the fight against modern slavery and human trafficking. Participants will gain an understanding of how MSE has been used in the past, and how NGOs and others can engage with this simple technique to calculate a reliable estimate of modern slavery in a given area. A recording was made to be downloaded following the live webinar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | National television program (USA) entire broadcast devoted to grant activity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Kevin Bales, author of Blood and Earth, discusses his experience as a researcher and abolitionist in the first of a three part series on modern slavery." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://video.wucftv.org/video/2365711807/ |
| Description | Nationally broadcast (USA) television program devoted to this grant. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Third in a 3-part series on this research, filmed on 1 Feb 2018, not yet broadcast. Will be available on website below after broadcast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://video.wucftv.org/video/2365948911/ |
| Description | Nationally broadcast television program. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Second episode in 3-part series on modern slavery:meaning and measurement. "Kevin Bales, Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Nottingham, discusses the problem of slavery in the 21st century and his research effort to figure out the exact numbers of people in slavery." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://video.wucftv.org/video/2365948911/ |
| Description | Networking vfisit to Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Freetown, Sierra Leone, 24-29 January 2016, organised by Hull City Council and the University of Hull. Visit included meetings and discussions with heritage organisations, academics at the University of Sierra Leone, government ministers, DFID, schoolteachers and representatives of the British Council. Discussions with University and Minister for Heritage and Education prompted lengthy (and continuing) discussions about heritage, the anti-slavery usable past and combatting contemporary slavery that subsequently led to a expression of interest involving the universities of Hull, Liverpool and Nottingham to the AHRC's GCRF programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Newspaper article featuring research outputs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In a Nottingham Post article titled "Three arrests over immigration offences as police crack down on slavery" I was interviewed and provided three paragraphs of background and framing information to the local crime. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.nottinghampost.com/three-arrests-over-immigration-offences-as-part-of-police-anti-slavery... |
| Description | Nottingham Citizens Annual Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Speech to 800 members: "A Slavery-Free City." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Nottingham Stands Against Slavery event - 20 June 2017 - University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Around 40 people including local activists, frontline social workers and faith leaders attended the Nottingham Stands Against Slavery event to hear from the expert panel and discuss three of Unchosen's short films. The level and quality of debate was very high, with detailed questions and analysis from both the audience and panel members. The evening concluded with an introduction from Dr Alison Gardner to the 'Slavery-free Communities' programme in Nottinghamshire, together with an invitation for the audience to make contact and explore in more detail how they might get involved. The main aims of the event were to raise awareness of modern slavery to the community of Nottingham, increase public awareness of modern day slavery and to strengthen community responses through increasing engagement between partners and wider public. In connection to this conference the 2018 Marsh Awards for Community Activism in Combating Slavery for Collaboration was awarded to Dr Alison Gardner for her work on organising and speaking at this event on behalf of Antislavery Usable Past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://blog.antislavery.ac.uk/category/commentaries/ |
| Description | Nottingham in Parliament |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd presented their research to policy makers and NGOs in the UK Parliament, as part of a one-day 'takeover' of the Houses of Parliament by the city and university of Nottingham. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/nipd/2016/10/21/commons-speaker-welcomes-regional-take-parliament/ |
| Description | One-day course on Slavery and Human Exploitation at The Hague Academy of International Law, Peace Palace, The Hague |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented a one-day course on "Slavery and Human Exploitation: History and Current Challenges" at the Advanced Course on International Criminal Law on Migration and Human Trafficking of The Hague Academy of International Law at the Peace Palace in The Hague in June 2016. The Hague Academy is the most prestigious international law centre of learning and attracts policy makers and others to its courses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.hagueacademy.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Flyer-Advanced-Course-on-International-Crimin... |
| Description | Online article: 'Royal Navy sailors were appalled by conditions on slave ships, but those they 'rescued' rarely experienced true freedom' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Online article for 'The Conversation' news website to publicise my monograph 'Envoys of Abolition' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/royal-navy-sailors-were-appalled-by-conditions-on-slave-ships-but-those-... |
| Description | Open Campus (University of Hull) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on 'Wilberforce and the anti-slavery usable past', 26 November 2016. Approximately 80 people present. Events provoked lengthy discussion and debate and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Organisation of the Archives into the Future: Decolonising the Archive workshop, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organised by the Antislavery Usable Past project, the 2019 Archives into the Future workshop examined the issues surrounding 'Decolonising the Archive'. Around 65 delegates exchanged ideas on themes associated with decolonisation in a varied programme that included short presentations from archivists, librarians, curators, community activists, academics, artists and educators. The event promoted lively debate and enabled attendees to make valuable contacts, inspiring future activity. Feedback from participants reported that the workshop was "Extremely well organised with impressively diverse range of speakers, from archives and museums to community activists, rather than just academics" and "... thoughtfully, critically and compassionately created the context for exciting and productive new dialogues". It was praised for its "very nuanced discussions of 'history' as not just an academic discipline, but a way we understand the world". When asked, "has it changed your perspectives?", respondents replied, "Yes, I now feel its important to take responsibility as a researcher to not just acknowledge power inequalities, but actively acknowledge and resist these constraints in representation, and work to engage relevant communities on their terms, not mine", and, "100%. It helped me see broader themes/challenges in the sector and gave me many ideas and new contacts. Also gave me ideas for ways my role [as museum guide] can help encourage debate and discuss our own practices/language we use in my museum." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/archives-into-the-future-decolonising-the-archive-tickets-54846827337 |
| Description | Outreach to Attorney General, State of Utah |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meetings and discussions, ongoing, with the Attorney General of the State of Utah on how to achieve reliable prevalence measure of slavery crime in his state. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | PGR Network Event (Brno) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | PGR Network event, Brno. 21-23 November 2016. Workshop stimulated widespread debate and discussion. There were also opportunities for mentoring PGR students and providing expert commentaries of their own contributions and wider issues related to slavery and abolition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Panel Presentation: Ida B. Wells |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of the heritage plaque unveiling to Ida B. Wells, I gave a short speech on Wells' legacy in the British Isles, including Birmingham, where the plaque was erected. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Panel with Princess Eugenie and Hon. Caroline Haughey on technology and modern slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | @100 International and national attenders for Tech Tackles Trafficking event in London - foundational meeting of new orgnasation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2018111564600/princess-eugenie-reveals-big-announcement-anti-s... |
| Description | Panel with UN Special Rapporteur on tomorrow's slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion on 'tomorrow's slavery today' with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, hosted by the United Nations University at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, sparking questions and discussions and increased engagement around critical issues discussed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Paper at Digital Humanities Early Careers Forum at Sheffield University (DHECF) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This event was a one-day conference organised by the Digital Humanities Early Career Forum, designed to showcase current research in the digital humanities and create a network of early career researchers in the field. I spoke about the creation of the Antislavery Usable Past's 'Remembering Slavery, 1807-2007' digital archive collection. The talk provoked discussions between the postgraduate students and heritage professionals present about the relationships between commemorations and public histories, and provided ideas and advice regarding the project's presentation of digital resources to audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.dhecf.group.shef.ac.uk/programme/ |
| Description | Paper presented at the International Network of Scholars and Activists for Afrikan Reparations conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented at the inaugural conference of the INOSAAR network with significant discussion and future planning for the network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Paper presented at the Neglected Methodologies of International Law conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented at the 'Neglected Methodologies of International Law' conference hosted at the University of Leicester, sparking discussion and the possibility of publication of an edited volume. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Parliamentary Hearing on Work and Sex Trade Supply Chain |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Asked to be main 'witness' on Parliamentary Working Group Inquiry on modern slavery with special reference to enslavement into sexual exploitation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Participation in Expert Working Group - Global Slavery Index |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Three day meeting of Expert Working Group supporting the Global Slavery Index. Led introduction of Multiple Systems Estimation to the Global Index, also worked on the merger of Index numbers with ILO prevalence numbers to achieve single global prevalence numbers based on agreed, shared, and transparent methodologies. Work was especially in preparation of the launch of the joint numbers at the UN General Assembly in Sept 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Participation in public event - 'Unspeakable things unspoken: Transatlantic slavery - a public conversation' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Participation in 'Unspeakable things unspoken: Transatlantic slavery - a public conversation' held at the Nottingham Contemporary and organised as part of the 'Re-presenting slavery: making a public usable past' network grant. Rich dialogues across sectors engage with issues relating to slavery and involved actors from a wide variety of backgrounds in the discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Participation in public event - Slavery and Public History Workshop - International Slavery Museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participation in the Slavery in Public History Workshop as part of the 'Re-presenting slavery: making a public usable past' network sparking broad discussions on issues of representation and commemoration of slavery. Discussion across multiple sectors helped enrich interaction and cooperation between different actors and to build relationships across different fields. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Partnerships and Knowledge Exchange for Ending Slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Australian Research Council workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Paths to Freedom, local history event, Newington Green Church, 30 Sepetmber 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hackney and the global journey from slavery to abolition, past and present. On the eve of Black History Month we invite you to join us for a series of lively talks and discussions focusing on slavery within a historical and global context. Paths to Freedom offers the opportunity to delve into Hackney's rich historical past to uncover it's global connections and links to slavery and its significance within the anti slavery movement as well as the chance to reflect on the role women and black people played in the abolition. With talks from leading academics and representatives from Antislavery International we will also explore slavery in our modern world with a panel discussion on 'Combating Contemporary Slavery, as well as proudly hosting The Benjamin Franklin House Annual Lecture on 'Franklin the Abolitionist'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paths-to-freedom-tickets-37310828693# |
| Description | Picturing Frederick Douglass |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Conference paper at the British American Nineteenth Century Historians conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Postgraduate Research Forum, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 15 postgraduates and their supervisors attended this forum, organised by myself, to share interdisciplinary research on slavery, both historic and contemporary. I presented on my own work, delivering a paper 'Legacies on Display: UK Museums and Antislavery.' Questions were asked afterwards about the role of the museum in tackling contemporary slavery, the links between academia and the heritage sector and the way in which museums choose to engage with the topic of antislavery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Premier of new general release film on human trafficking - panel discussion after showing with Producer. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | European premier of new (Hollywood made) film on human trafficking in Brussels, after discussion on stage with film producer. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Speaker for an interactive workshop where I showed my digital archive map, "Murals of Memory and Abolition" to students and the general public. Purpose was the show murals as a tool for raising aware of contemporary and historic slavery. Sparked a lot of questions and interesting insight. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation - Hman Rights Centre Postgraduate Research Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation titled 'Repair, Redress or 'Justice'? An Exploration of the Boundaries of Judicial Remedies for Grave Injustices in International Law' presented as part of the QUB Human Rights Centre Postgraduate Research Series at Queen's University Belfast. The presentation sparked in depth discussion on the legal issues in question and furthered understandings of the ideas presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation - School of Law Research Presentation Series, University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation titled 'Enslavement, Emancipation, Reparation: International Law in Transition' as part of the School of Law Research Series at the University of Nottingham. The presentation introduced academics and postgraduate students to new ideas concerning historical slavery and reparations, and sparked heated and in depth debate on the legal issues at hand. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation Home Office Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Annual Home Office conference on International Policing - informed professionals of latest work on modern slavery; met privately with Home Secretary (May) to brief her. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation and consultation with staff at Facebook HQ Dublin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Facebook needs help with their content and outward facing policies concerning tech crime, human trafficking, and modern slavery - I met with 40-50 staff and several side meetings with executives to help guide their responses to these issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper delivered for Wisbech & Fenland Museum's Articles for Change conference 'Cambridgeshire's Abolitionists' on the subject of 'A Century of Campaigning: Abolitionists and Anti-slavery Ideas in British Museums'. This sparked questions and discussion, and several audience members followed up afterwards about developments in their own projects based on ideas shared. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at Conference on child vulnerability in the aftermath of natural disasters (with an emphasis on human trafficking) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference attended by a small number of senior academics and stakeholders - my presentation addressed the relationship between natural disasters and human trafficking, the policy implications, and how new statistical methods could be utilised, as well as what previous anti-slavery movements might tell us. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at Falling Wall Conference Berlin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Falling Walls is the TED of Europe. All talks are filmed in high quality and published. Falling Walls is a unique international platform for leaders from the worlds of science, business, politics, the arts and society. It was initiated on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. Inspired by this world-changing event on 9 November 1989, the question of every Falling Walls gathering is: Which walls will fall next? Falling Walls fosters discussion on research and innovation and promotes the latest scientific findings among a broad audience from all parts of society. The Falling Walls Foundation, a charity, is generously supported by the German Ministry for Education and Research, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Helmholtz Association, the Berlin Senate and numerous other acclaimed academic institutions, foundations, companies, non-governmental organisations and prominent individuals. Its publishing partners include Nature and Scientific American (I met individually with the Ed. in Chief of both these journals while there). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.falling-walls.com/videos/Kevin-Bales-10661 |
| Description | Presentation at Falling Walls Conference Berlin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The German government each year hosts a conference with invited speakers to address key global issues that can be understand or approached by breaking down walls between disciplines. I was invited to speak about the trans-disciplinary approaches to modern slavery, and included the introduction to new measurement techniques. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://falling-walls.com/videos/Kevin-Bales-10661 |
| Description | Presentation on breakthroughs in anti-slavery research methods at Hull Freedom Summit 28 Oct 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote at Hull Freedom Summit (part of Euro-City of Culture) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation to EU Country representatives facilitated by QCEA in Brussels |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to EU Country representatives facilitated by QCEA in Brussels. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation to International Book Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Keynote talk/presentation to Gorzia (Italy) International Book Festival - participation included three TV interviews; two radio interviews; 2 newspaper interviews |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation to Nexus Partnerships (New York City) on breakthroughs in slavery research methodologies 29 Jan 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nexus Institute and Partners is a large group of professionals supporting and directing anti-slavery efforts (and other human rights efforts) primarily in New York. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation to Scottish Parliament - Event on Modern Slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and discussions with Scottish Parliament - featured speaker at Parliamentary inquiry event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation to launch the Remembering 1807 digital archive at the Museum of London Docklands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the launch event for the 'Remembering 1807' digital archive, a new resource to map all the events and activities that took place in 2007 to mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. The audience included heritage professionals and members of community groups who wished to learn more about using the archive and contributing to it. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://antislavery.ac.uk |
| Description | Presentation to launch the Remembering 1807 digital archive at the Wilberforce Institute, Hull |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the launch event for the 'Remembering 1807' digital archive, a new resource to map all the events and activities that took place in 2007 to mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. The audience included heritage professionals who wished to learn more about using the archive and contributing to it. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://antislavery.ac.uk |
| Description | Presentation/talk GILDER LEHRMAN CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SLAVERY, RESISTANCE & ABOLITION 20th ANNUAL CONFERENCE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on "what works" to the GILDER LEHRMAN CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SLAVERY, RESISTANCE & ABOLITION20th ANNUAL CONFERENCE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://glc.yale.edu/events/conferences/past-glc-conferences/2018-annual-conference |
| Description | Press release by University of Nottingham to publicise launch of mural archive - Using street art to help fight modern slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press release by University of Nottingham to publicise launch of mural archive - 'Using street art to help fight modern slavery'. Date published: 28 November 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://mms.tveyes.com/MediaView/?c3RhdGlvbj02MTcwJlN0YXJ0RGF0ZVRpbWU9MTIlMmYwMiUyZjIwMTcrMTglM2EwOCU... |
| Description | Protest Memory and the Movement Against Contemporary Slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Public talk at King's College London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Public Engagement; Connected Communities Festival (Somerset House, London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A small exhibition was put together on the theme of murals and their role in putting forward Utopian ideas. These were researched, written and printed. The display was then put on at Somerset House over a weekend. Whilst there mass public engagement was undertaken with the general public, and an activity to create a mural of utopian ideas was run. There was over 1000 visitors over the whole weekend and lots of interesting discussions and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2k8U_fYJGw |
| Description | Public Lecture- 'Legacies on Display: Antislavery in Museums' (WISE, Hull) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A ten minute summary of the PhD research project was delivered to a general public audience, as well as peers, as part of the wider public lecture programme at the institute. Around thirty people attended, and there were questions and discussions afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Seminar; 'The Many Faces of the Modern Museum through Interpretation of Antislavery,' Centre for the Study of International Slavery, University of Liverpool. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Twenty-five people listened to the presentation on the role of museums today, reflected through their work on antislavery both as a historic and a contemporary issue. There were lots of interesting questions and discussions from that. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Public Talk at Yale University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Public talk and workshop at Yale University, Gilder Lehrman Center called "Research to Help End Slavery by 2030." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Public Talk, 'Museums and the Fight Against Contemporary Slavery,' Hull Heritage Open Days (WISE) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 30 people attended this public talk, part of the city-wide Heritage Open Day programme, which outlined the research project. There were lots of interesting questions and discussions following it. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Talk, 'The Longest Fight; Antislavery Past and Present,' The Tolbooth Museum (Aberdeen) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Around 40 people attended a lunchtime talk about antislavery history and the relevance this has to antislavery campaigns today, as part of the museum's wider programme of public engagement. This led to lots of interesting questions and discussions with many people remarking they had learned new things. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public debate with Annie Kelly from The Guardian, 2 September |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This event was planned as a tent talk during Hull's annual Freedom Festival and consisted of an open discussion with Annie Kelly from The Guardian. C. 60 people attended this talk, which provoked a lot of questions and debate -- in fact, the session overran and had to be halted by the organisers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Public talk at BPP Law School, Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Public talk on slavery delivered at BPP Law School in Leeds, with active engagement and interest by students attending on how they could become involved in antislavery work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Public talk at UPenn |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop and presentation for the University of Pennsylvania, Field Center about "Transdisciplinary Research on Modern Slavery." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Public talk for faith groups in Texas. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A meeting of faith based organisations concerned with human trafficking and slavery in Woodlands Texas, asked to be keynote speaker. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public talks, group discussions, meetings with leadership, classroom visits - Vassar College, New York 30 Jan. 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Large public talk, plus meetings with President of College, classes and close work with local anti-slavery group at Vassar College. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Race and Gender: The Creole in Historical Perspective - School Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | I delivered a lecture to students at Latymer Grammar School in Edmonton, London. The students were studying Jean Rhys's text The Wide Sargasso Sea - the lecture offered contextual information on the changing ways in which the figure of the Creole woman had been imagined over time. The students were fully engaged and asked a range of thoughtful and perceptive questions during the debate afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Race, slavery, image, engagement: Teacher training CPD session for the National Portrait Gallery, London, 16 November 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Join us to explore the challenges of effectively working with the emotive subject of race, slavery, imagery and it's impact, specifically focusing on the role that portraits, and the National Portrait Gallery Collection in particular, can play in supporting teaching in the classroom. Key speakers talk exclusively to teachers about their work, raising questions and offering strategies and lines of enquiry for the classroom (including use of language and creative approaches to sensitive history). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://my.npg.org.uk/single/SelectSeating.aspx?p=4894 |
| Description | Radical Histories / Histories of Radicalism, Conference and Public History Festival, Queen Mary's University London and the Raphael Samuel History Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This international event commemorated twenty years since the death of the leftwing social historian Raphael Samuel and forty years since the founding of History Workshop Journal. The event explored radical approaches to the past and histories of radical ideas and action through lectures, panels, performances, screenings, workshops and exhibitions. The event was hosted by Queen Mary University of London and organised by the Raphael Samuel History Centre. It engaged a diverse audience, and brought together practitioners of many varieties of historical research, curatorship, writing and performance, from both inside and outside the academy. Other venues and partners for the event include Bishopsgate Institute, the London Metropolitan Archives and Tower Hamlets Local Studies Library. My paper explored the public history project 'Local roots / global routes: the legacies of slavery in Hackney'. The audience engaged in a lively discussion afterwards we were invited to repeat the paper at the Public History Seminar at UCL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/radical-historieshistories-of-radicalism-a-major-conference-public... |
| Description | Radio Interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An hour long interview programme, 'Voices and Views' - I was the only guest, so an in depth exploration of my work - on KCMJ radio in Colorado. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Radio Interview Denver Colorado USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview on topical human rights program discussing slavery and trafficking |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Radio Interview on 'Top of Mind with Julie Rose' current events and investigative journalism 30 minutes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | From radio station website: Guest: Kevin Bales, Co-Founder of Free the Slaves, Professor of Contemporary Slavery, University of Nottingham, UK. Worldwide, there are more than 40-million people in slavery - and it's happening right here in the US and just about every other country on the planet. It's hard to believe. But research into the problem has uncovered evidence that we all might be contributing to the problem when we buy certain kinds of frozen fish or shrimp at the supermarket, for example. And furthermore, the slavery involved in the production of those items is also contributing to massive degradation of natural resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.byuradio.org/episode/b5be42f2-749a-479a-af1b-b4cd90cd1bb0/top-of-mind-with-julie-rose-ame... |
| Description | Re-presenting slavery: making a public useable past website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The website contains information on new scholars, heritage practitioners, and community historians working on the subject of slavery. It provides details of current and past projects that link academic and public history together. We have complied resources that we hope will be useful to people interested in doing their own research whether that is for family, local or schools history projects. The blog presents new research being generated by the network members that engage with issues of history, memory and representation across a broad field of social, cultural, economic, legal and political history. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.slaveryandpublichistoryuk.com/ |
| Description | Red rubber in sepia: Slavery, memory and representation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, conference paper, Historians Against Slavery, International Slavery Museum, 8 October 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This paper focuses on a collection of 509 photographs produced by British missionary Alice Seeley Harris. A selection of 60 of her images were used in the Congo Atrocity lantern show. In the early 20th century, the show toured Britain raising awareness of the abuses occurring in the Congo Free State under King Leopold II. Rooted in the relationship between humanitarianism and empire, the paper is centrally concerned with issues of representation; the ways in which past antislavery visual culture sustained racialised tropes that, far from anti-colonial, were bound up with the imperial project. This paper will discuss some of the theoretical and practical issues of digitally archiving and exhibiting these images and the curatorial and community-based strategies employed to negotiate them. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/2017-conference-program-2/ |
| Description | Red rubber in sepia: Slavery, memory and representation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, conference paper, Past Matters, Research Futures: An AHRC Care for the Future ECR Conference Royal Society, London, 12-13 December 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Past Matters, Research Futures will showcase the exciting research conducted by Early Career Researchers (ECRs) related to Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past, one of four strategic research themes supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). ECRs are represented in the theme in a variety of ways, and are recognised as playing a key role in its development, dynamism and legacy. ECRs researching in fields with strong links to the theme, but who are not funded within the theme, are also invited to apply. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/newsevents/events/calendar/early-careers-conference/ |
| Description | Reimagining the Boundaries of Anti-slavery: History, Heritage and Community Engagement (College of Charleston, South Carolina) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at conference in Charleston, South Carolina: 'Transforming Public History from Charleston to the Atlantic World'. This was a large international conference with multiplier parallel sessions. Those present at this panel included Lonnie Bunch, Director of the National African American and Culture Museum in Washington, DC. The session prompted a lively discussion afterwards and requests for information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.antislavery.ac.uk |
| Description | Reimagining the boundaries of antislavery: History, heritage and community engagement, panel, Transforming Public History from Charleston to the Atlantic World, Avery College, Charleston, South Carolina, 14-17 Jun 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In partnership with various local, national, and international cultural heritage organizations, academic institutions, and historic sites, the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World Program (CLAW), the Addlestone Library, and the Race and Social Justice Initiative are proud to release the schedule for the 2017 Transforming Public History From Charleston to the Atlantic World conference to be held at the College of Charleston June 14-17, 2017. This international conference will host nearly 200 public history professionals, scholars, educators, librarians, archivists, and artists in workshops, roundtables, panels, and individual papers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://claw.cofc.edu/2017-conference-schedule/ |
| Description | Reparations seminar presented at the WISE Institute, University of Hull |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar presented at the WISE Institute followed by discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Research for Ending Slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Nottingham US Alumni Event, New York |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Research to End Slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the UN Voluntary Trust Fund by Zoe Trodd and Katarina Schwarz |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Roundtable on Histories of Empire, Modern British Studies conference, University of Birmingham, 6 July 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This roundtable brings together historians from different periods, regions and approaches to ask questions about how empire should be understood within modern British history. Some of the questions to be explored will include: the different turns in imperial history and how our own work relates to them; questions of empire and heritage, community outreach and the role of museums; ideas about how to communicate imperial history to the public and how to counter existing celebratory histories/silences in public discourse about empire; the ways in which teaching and researching British imperial histories can be a radical political act; and how to think about the echoes of empire in contemporary British politics and culture. We will also welcome contributions from the audience and further questions exploring topics along these lines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://mbsbham.wordpress.com/roundtable-on-histories-of-empire-the-past-in-the-present/ |
| Description | School Session, 'Slavery: Primary Evidence' at WISE, Hull and Wilberforce House Museum, with St Mary's College, Hull. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 30 sixth form students studying the Transatlantic Slave Trade for their history A-level coursework attended WISE and had a guided tour of the Wilberforce House Museum, looking specifically at the way in which the museum has made use of its collections as primary evidence in its interpretation of the slave trade and abolition movement. Afterwards, pupils put together presentations and discussed the role of museums in presenting this history to the public, the use and limitations of objects as primary evidence for historians and the challenges in interpreting the history of slavery and antislavery for the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Seminar paper -- 'Anti-slavery Politics in the Age of Reform' -- at Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull, April 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar presentation to academic, postgraduates and general audience at Wilberforce Institute, as part of its regular open seminar series. About 40 in attendance. Presentation provoked questions and discussion afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Seminar presentation on anti-slavery activism and opinion-building in Brussels, October 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar presentation at workshop in Brussels on legacies of colonialism, 23 October 2019. Invited audience of approx. 20, including EU officials, academics and museum curators. Presentation provoked question and discussion afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Seminar, 'Teaching Slavery: the necessities and the challenges,' at WISE, Hull. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 8 postgraduate students attended the research-led seminar at the Wilberforce Institute where I outlined some of the issues and findings from my own research and professional practice. We then had discussions on the challenges associated with teaching on slavery, both contemporary and historic, guidelines for best practice and potential networks that could be developed to address the issue further. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Series of talks at Upsalla University Sweden |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Upsalla University is the premier university in the world for conflict education, policy support, and activism. Talk focussed on both how to use social research methods to further such work, my own research findings on the nexus of slavery and armed conflict, and what lessons might be learned for current action against slavery from the usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Series of talks at Wageningen University (Netherlands) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Wageningen University is the premier university in the world for environmental education, policy support, and activism. Talk focussed on both how to use social research methods to further such work, my own research findings on the nexus of slavery and ecocide, and what lessons might be learned for current action against slavery from the usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Series of talks/seminar with business leaders, Norway |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The event, Speaking For Freedom, Bales was the main speaker. The main topic was slavery in the supply chains and ethical trade/production.Speaking in two sessions for approximately 20-25 minutes each on supply chains and the use of new technology to discover victims and prevent exploitation. Second event: was a lunch seminar for politicians and business leaders in Bergen. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Slave-ownership and philanthropy, conference paper, Bluecoat 300: Charity, Philanthropy and the Black Atlantic, International Slavery Museum, 24 Nov 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Like many 18th century Liverpool institutions, Bluecoat was built to a large degree with funds derived from the expanding port. Recent research by Sophie Jones into the founding years of the school suggests that at least 65% of regular subscriptions were derived directly from trading in slaves or related industries. While slavery is often presumed to be counter to or distant from the 'virtuous realm' of philanthropy, this symposium takes Bluecoat as a symbol of a more challenging, contradictory history. It will explore how Transatlantic slavery filtered through and shaped charity, philanthropy, religion, education, philosophy, culture, literature and art. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/events/view/events/3695 |
| Description | Slavery and Abolition: Clapham's Local History, talk to the Clapham History Society, 28 November 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk exploring the history of pro and anti-slavery campaigners living in the Clapham area during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Slavery and Abolition: Then and Now |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Legatum Institute hosted an event called Slavery and Abolition: Then and Now that brought together Frank Field, MP, chair of the Modern Slavery Bill Evidence Review; Nick Grono, CEO of the Freedom Fund; and project investigator John Oldfield. The event examined how the experiences of 19th century abolitionists can help us to tackle human trafficking and forced labour today. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Slavery and Education, Working Group meeting, University College London, 18 March 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Working group meeting to plan for the conference on slavery and education at the Museum of London in Docklands. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Slavery and Education, workshop paper, INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF SCHOLARS AND ACTIVISTS FOR AFRIKAN REPARATIONS (INOSAAR), Workshop for Activists and Scholars, We Are 366, London, 21 October 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop is about how best to contribute to building the INOSAAR and its advancement of the Afrikan Reparatory Justice through the Arts and Humanities and education, and specifically the grassroots concept of 'edutainment'. It will examine critically the use and misuse of the arts and humanities and discuss how they can be used, on the one hand, to promote creative, emancipatory multicultural and intercultural forms of global justice education that serve to dignify Afrika and, on the other hand, racist Afriphobic miseducation that reinforces 'mental enslavement' and the killing of minds (or 'mentacide'). This workshop will seek to identify best 'Sankofa' practices (a philosophical concept relating to ways of advancing restitutions in the present by drawing from the best in the past in order to create a brighter future) and efforts within and beyond the International Social Movement for Afrikan Reparations (ISMAR) and the Peoples' Reparations International Movement (PRIM). In particular, it will seek to identify efforts that promote (self-)empowerment, consciousness raising, (self-)emancipation and creativity with a view to contributing to building the INOSAAR through the arts and humanities and education. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Slavery and Public History UK Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Slavery figures across a range of public histories - we can find traces of this history in our museums, country houses, maritime and industrial heritage, statues, street names, churches and graveyards. In Britain the public history of slavery has been dominated by events that took place in 2007 during the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade. Although this period provided a space for reflection and much needed funding for people and organisations to research and represent this history, the commemorations were dominated by the issue of abolition. Slavery has a much longer history and far reaching legacies. This project explores some of the new directions that historical research and public history have taken since 2007 and the ways in which this has helped to shape our understanding of slavery. We believe that this history can be served better by working across institutions and disciplines to promote the sharing of new research, ideas, projects and public platforms. We hope that this project will encourage people to connect and explore the possibilities of working together to make sure that everyone has access to the latest research whether it is produced in universities, museums, libraries, or at home by you. Find out more about : New scholars, heritage practitioners, and community historians working on the subject of slavery Projects that link academic and public history Resources for family, local or schools history projects New research and practice on slavery, history, memory and representation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018 |
| URL | http://www.slaveryandpublichistoryuk.com/ |
| Description | Slavery and Satellites |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Our research led to the discovery of new slavery sites in Bangladesh, which was reported in the Telegraph, including an interview with Kevin Bales. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/10/23/satellites-reveal-child-slave-camps-in-unesco-prote... |
| Description | Slavery and public history, British Academy Workshop, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, 8 Feb 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Museums, country houses, the streets we walk down and the places we call home - they all have stories to tell us about the past. This workshop will explore how different kinds of public historians and organisations have represented Britain's historic role in both slavery and its abolition. Throughout the day we will hear from museum and heritage professionals, community historians and academics - there will be plenty of opportunities to ask them questions and join in the debate. There will be an open session for people to discuss new projects and ideas giving participants a chance to see how we might help each other and get involved. A walking tour of Liverpool will allow participants to see first hand how the history of slavery has shaped the city of Liverpool. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.slaveryandpublichistoryuk.com/blog/review-slavery-and-public-history-workshop-at-the-inte... |
| Description | Slavery in Conflict |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and disucssion of tthe 'Contemporary Slavery in Armed Conflict CSAC Dataset (1989-2016)' at Richmond University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Slavery walking tour training session with the London Blue Badge Guides |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Training session for the London Blue Badge Tour Guides who were interested in developing walking tours based on London's local history of slavery, abolition and the historic African presence. The tour guides were very receptive to the session and asked lots of questions. They intended to develop walking tours based on this material. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Slavery, emancipation and art, British Academy Workshop, Institute of Black Atlantic Research, UCLAN, Apr 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Art has a long and tangled history in relation to slavery, abolition, emancipation and cultural resistance. Both pro and anti slavery campaigners used art to make public political statements. Slave-based wealth was used to purchase and preserve cultural treasures - some of which can be found in our national and regional galleries and museums today. The legacies of both slavery and empire include complex and often unequal cultural entanglements. Artists and art institutions have been both complicit in and also resistant to slavery and its legacies. For the Black Arts Movement issues of slavery, colonialism, race and racism were key and they used art practice to challenge, subvert and deconstruct ideas of 'blackness'. This workshop will explore issues of slavery, resistance, emancipation, identity, race and racism, institutions and collections, curatorial voice and authority. Speakers include established and emerging artists, curators and academics and the emphasis of the day will be on debate and discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.slaveryandpublichistoryuk.com/blog/review-slavery-emancipation-and-art |
| Description | Speaking at Beyond Borders Int'l Festival Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The purpose of the festival is to promote Scotland in the world and the world in Scotland. It's a place for people who have like-minded ideas to come together and discuss them in a tranquil and neutral environment. It is an annual large-scale show case of current events and culture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.reviewsphere.org/news/the-world-in-a-weekend-beyond-borders-international-festival/ |
| Description | Stay safe from slavery conference - 21 June 2017 - Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | University of Nottingham's Right's Lab partnered with the NGO Unchosen to host the Stay Safe from Slavery Conference on 21st June 2017. Unchosen organised the Stay Safe from Slavery conference to explore new innovative ways of the prevention of Modern Slavery in the UK. The aims of the conference were to ask - how can we protect the vulnerable? How can we stop those who are homeless, refugees, migrants or children in care from falling victim to exploitation? To look at the new approaches in this field? It was a very successful conference, with high calibre speakers from organisations including The Gangmasters Licensing Authority, Stronger Together, The Passage, Migrant Help, Universities of Nottingham and Westminster. 100 people including speakers and the team attended the event. The audience included: Police from different communities; Leicestershire, Nottingham, Derbyshire, Humberside, Nottingham City Council, Cheshire East Council, Refugee charities, Church of England, Salvation Army, Comic Relief, OXCAT, BACA charity, SMART, P3 charity, Leftover Magazine, Bedfordshire against Modern Slavery, Framework, Warrington Borough Council, Focus Independent adult social work, Skylark Church, Health Equity Unit, Stop the Traffik, Medaille Trust, Geding Borough Council. The afternoon sessions were particularly informative and brought new findings about prevention and generated many extremely positive comments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://blog.antislavery.ac.uk/category/commentaries/ |
| Description | Survivor Knowledge: Learning from Lived Experience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Roundtable hosted by Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center on survivors' lived experience and research, featuring Zoe Trodd |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | TV interview for East Midlands today - Hannah Jeffery (PhD student) on the launch of the mural collection archive |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | PhD student, Hannah Jeffery, talked about the use of anti-slavery murals to eradicate slavery on East Midlands Today on the launch date of the mural archive collection by the Antislavery Usable Past. Broadcast: 2 December 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://mms.tveyes.com/MediaView/?c3RhdGlvbj02MTcwJlN0YXJ0RGF0ZVRpbWU9MTIlMmYwMiUyZjIwMTcrMTglM2EwOCU... |
| Description | Taking a Lead in Antislavery Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Arts Faculty Research Leadership Programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Talk on Ida B. Wells: School Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On the day of the heritage plaque unveiling to Ida B. Wells, I gave a 30minute assembly to Oasis Woodview Academy, on Wells and her legacy. The school produced artwork and poetry, which was then displayed at the plaque venue (next door to the school). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk on Modern Slavery to New Forest Rotary Club, 1 February 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Online presentation to members of local Hampshire Rotary Club. c. 28 members in attendance, including members from other clubs. Questions and discussion afterwards,. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Talk on Modern slavery to Bideford Rotary Club, 11 February 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Online presentation to local Rotary, followed by questions and discussion. c. 30 in attendance, including members from other clubs. Lively response and reaction and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Talk on Modern slavery to Southampton Magna Rotary Club, October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 20 minute online presentation on modern slavery to local Southampton Rotary Club, followed by questions. C. 45 members in attendance, including members from other national and, in one case, international clubs. . Lively responses and requests for further information. also invitations to speak at other Rotary Clubs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Talk to Annual Yearly Meeting of Belgian and Netherlands Quakers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Quakers are strong supporters and practitioners in anti-slavery work - talk led them to new findings and practices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Talk to the Quakers of Yorkshire (and others) 21 Oct 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Led to an article in The Friend (internationally read Quaker magazine), also a large number of A-level students in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | The Abolitionist Camera |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Paper at the British Association for American Studies conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | The Antislavery Usable Past |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Translating Cultures and Care for the Future, Joint GCRF Awards Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | The Antislavery Usable Past |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The American Studies Annual Lecture at the University of Manchester |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | The Crossing Screening - Evening Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following the successful school event during the day, I organised another screening of The Crossing to the general public. We had a discussion about slavery and the film with the film's sound technician, Professor Rob Toulson. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The Crossing Screening for Local Secondary School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | In January 2019, I organised a screening of The Crossing, an antislavery film directed by Shreepali Patel. The screening was for 50 Year 10-11 students at a local secondary school, NUAST. After the screening, we had a 40 minute discussion of contemporary slavery, the film and its impact on the students. I had excellent feedback from both the students and the teachers: the latter remarked how the students were discussing the film days after the event, and were amazed that modern slavery still existed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The Freedom Blueprint |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Public talk for the University of Hertfordshire's Connect Series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.herts.ac.uk/connect/events/2016/the-freedom-blueprint-how-we-end-contemporary-slavery |
| Description | The Freedom Blueprint: How We End Contemporary Slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | National Museum of Justice |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | The Impact of Migration Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited to be the keynote speaker for the Impact of Migration conference for the University of the Third Age. There were around 200 attendees. The lecture 'Slavery and the making of modern Britain' sparked a 45 minute debate with lively audience discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | The Rights Lab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Address at the Post-Slavery Mental Health" conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | The Rights Lab: How We End Slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Royal Society, London, university research strategy launch with the Minister for Education. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | The Slavery-Free Campus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Address to the SUPC Responsible Procurement Annual Meeting (online) by Zoe Trodd |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The Ties That Bind: Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Reform (lecture) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Event co-hosted by Liverpool University Press and the University of Liverpool about John Oldfield's book - The Ties that Bind, an innovative study that explores the close affinities that bound together anti-slavery activists in Britain and the USA during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, shedding important new light on the emergence of a vibrant and broad-based political culture that forced abolition to the centre of public debate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The anti-slavery usable past, history and colonialism, Amsterdam, 12 January |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at University of Amsterdam. c. 20 students, mainly postgraduates, attended this event, which prompted questions and lengthy debate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The anti-slavery usable past, history and colonialism, Lisbon, 6 November |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop presentation to students at University of Coimbra (Lisbon campus). c. 15 students attended the event -- questions and lengthy discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | The anti-slavery usable past, history and colonialism, Warsaw, 13 September |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk to conference on 'Empire, Colonialism and Heritage' at the University of Warsaw. C. 15 people attended this event, mainly made up of postgraduate students. The hour-long session sparked questions and lengthy debate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Transdisciplinary Research for Ending Slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Yale University, Gilder Lehrman Center, workshop with the Modern Slavery Working Group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | United Nations University Code 8.7 Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Multiple talks at the UN Headquarters on the theme of "Science to Tackle Slavery." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Unspeakable things unspoken: Transatlantic slavery - a public conversation, British Academy Conference, Nottingham Contemporary, 12-13 Oct 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This conference examined the ways in which slavery has figured in public history in Britain. It considered how academic history has shaped public perceptions of slavery and how public debate has challenged and inspired scholarship. It gave critical attention to the ways in which slavery and colonialism has shaped both our public and academic history institutions. Given the increasing emphasis on 'impact' within university research agendas the event offered new possibilities for building relationships across academic and public history. Public history was conceived of in its broadest sense and speakers were invited from among museum and heritage professionals, artists, community historians, activists, academics, poets, performers and educators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.octoberdialogues.org/october-dialogues-2016.html |
| Description | Walls of Protest, Walls of Pride: Murals of the Black Community" on panel "Black Lives Mattered: New Formulations of African American Community in the 1960s," British Association of American Studies (BAAS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented a paper on the emergence of antislavery memory in murals of the 1960s. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Wilberforce World Freedom Summit (Hull) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Wilberforce World Freedom Summit: Eradicating Contemporary Slavery took place in Hull on 29-30 September 2017. Speakers included: The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd; Baroness Scotland, Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations; John Kufuor, ex-President of Ghana; Kevin Hyland, the UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner; Nick Grono, Chief Executive, The Freedom Fund; Owen Tudor, TUC; Lord Haskins; Professor Kevin Bales; Shaun Sawyer. National Police Lead on Modern Day Slavery; Paul Gerrard, Co-op Group; and Aidan McQuade, Anti-Slavery International. There were c. 120 present at each day of the summit and c. 250 at the summit dinner in Hull's City Hall, at which John Kufuor was awarded the first Wilberforce World Freedom Medal. Participants included members of the general public, local sixth-formers, practitioners and academics. The two-day conference sparked questions and discussion and, from feedback, resulted in wide networking, partiality between local businesses, the police and policymakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.hull2017.co.uk/whatson/events/wilberforce-freedom-summit/ |
| Description | William Wilberforce and the British Anti-Slavery Movement: A Transatlantic Perspective |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lecture delivered to local Hull organisation working on human rights, slavery and trafficking, focusing on opinion-building in transatlantic perspective. Large audience of approx. 100 people. Lectured prompted question and some discussion, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Workshop Co-organiser for 'Postgraduates Against Slavery: Ideas to Impact' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Having established a postgraduate network of 40+ scholars from all over the world studying historic and contemporary slavery, I co-ran a conference amongst inter-disciplinary postgraduate scholars where we discussed transdisciplinary approaches at tackling contemporary slavery through research across fields such as American Studies, History, Law, Business, Social Sciences, Geography and Heritage Studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Workshop Co-organiser for 'Postgraduates Against Slavery: Ideas to Impact', University of Liverpool, Liverpool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Having established a postgraduate network of 50+ scholars from all over the world studying historic and contemporary slavery, I co-ran a conference amongst inter-disciplinary postgraduate scholars where we discussed transdisciplinary approaches at tackling contemporary slavery through research across fields such as American Studies, History, Law, Business, Social Sciences, Geography and Heritage Studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Workshop on contemporary slavery in historical perspective, Hull, 6 March 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 15 postgraduates students and invited guests, among them Professor David Richardson, met to discuss contemporary slavery in historical perspective. Workshop sparked questions and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Workshop on digital humanities / launch of 'Legacies on Dispaly' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on digital humanities held to coincide with the launch of 'Legacies on Display', an ASUP digital database put together by Rebecca Nelson, one of our PhD students. c. 15 people attended the workshop and c. 25 attended the launch. Both events prompted questions and further discussion,. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Yole!Africa: Catalogue Transcend |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of a partnership working with local communities in Goma, Yole!Africa produced a catalogue showcasing their artistic outputs resulting from collaboration with ASUP. The magazine is called 'Catalogue Transcend', and includes some images from the Alice Seeley Harris Archive alongside modern interpretations of these photographs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Yole!Africa: Film |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Resulting from collaboration with ASUP and Dr. Katie Donington, Yole!Africa (a community arts organisation based in the Congo) worked with the Alice Seeley Harris Archive to reactivate historical memory and create an artistic film showcasing the impact the project had on the local community. The film tells the story of the project, and some of the photographs from the Archive: some were exhibited in the public marketplace in Goma, and others were displayed in a museum exhibition to teach citizens about the history of slavery and abolitionist activity in that area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018 |
| Description | Yole!Africa: Student Photography Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of a partnership working with local communities in Goma and collaboration with ASUP, Yole!Africa worked with students to produce a series of photographs inspired by some of the images from the Alice Seeley Harris archive. Some of these historic images were used to reactivate historical memory and recover the lost history of slavery and abolitionist activity in the Congo. Some of these photos were included in another output for this project, Catalogue Transcend (listed separately on Researchfish). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |