Deadline: 12-Nov-21
The Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (Modern Slavery PEC) is accepting applications to produce high quality impactful evidence on the role of wider legal and policy frameworks on modern slavery and identify strategic opportunities to redesign policies to better safeguard against modern slavery.
Applications are invited to focus on the UK, including on one or more of its constituent countries. Alternatively, they could focus on other jurisdictions, when there is an identifiable interest or benefit for the development of UK policy, for example UK international development policy.
The Modern Slavery PEC is seeking to fund a portfolio of projects that cover a range of legal/policy areas. Applicants can choose to focus on one area, combine more than one, or include others not listed, providing strong justification is given.
Objectives
- The objectives for the research will be set by the research teams, but they should include, at a minimum, the generation of key findings and recommendations for policymakers or other key decision-makers in relation to modern slavery.
- Applicants are strongly encouraged to include in their objectives the identification of strategic ways in which policies that do not currently directly or adequately address modern slavery can be redesigned to better safeguard against modern slavery and reduce modern slavery risk
Focus Areas
The call looks to fund research that provides new evidence on the role of current legal and policy frameworks in the following areas and the ways that they operate in relation to modern slavery:
- immigration and asylum
- labour market regulation and governance
- law and policy on sex work
- safeguarding policy and practice in health and social protection
- criminal justice, e.g. drug policies
- international development and foreign policy
- other areas proposed by researchers with clear justification
Funding Information
- The full economic cost of your project can be up to £250,000 (at 100% fEC) and projects can last for a maximum of 12 months. AHRC will fund projects at 80% fEC.
Eligibility Criteria
- All projects must be led by a UK higher education institution or approved research organisation eligible to receive UKRI funding, and projects must be carried out in collaboration with at least one UK based third sector organisation. In accordance with the Modern Slavery PEC’s strategic objective of facilitating collaboration, successful teams will also work in collaboration with the Modern Slavery PEC throughout the project to ensure alignment with their objectives and to maximise impact.
- Project teams are encouraged to include partnership with professionals from relevant areas (referred to as ‘Project Partners’) e.g. businesses, government agencies, international organisations etc. Indeed, it is expected that Project Partners will be sought from those nonacademic stakeholders with a direct interest in the research/policy outputs.
For more information, visit https://modernslaverypec.org/latest/call-research-links-modern-slavery-wider-laws-policies