Event Details

The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business would like to invite you to their Modern Slavery Knowledge & Action Hub event.

The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business has wide and varied research expertise focused on Modern Slavery. Their Modern Slavery Knowledge & Action Hub brings together this inter-disciplinary expertise seeking to better embed social sustainability within both global and local complex supply chains. This includes, but is not limited to, a focus on topics such as:

• Methods of detecting and remediating against modern slavery in global supply chains,
• Understanding the impact of modern slavery legislation which requires organisations to produce annual modern slavery statements, and
• Assessing the working conditions of migrant workers, and the social sustainability of the ‘left behind’ places where migrant workers have settled but have yet to flourish in both their workplaces and communities.

This event will bring members of the Hub together with a diverse range of organisations to begin shaping and developing future research agendas. To ensure that these future research efforts are closely matched to the challenges being experienced in practice there will be strong ‘practitioner’ participation on the day. This event will, therefore, provide you with the opportunity to shape future research avenues, express what is important to you, develop and grow your own network, and potentially contribute to future funding bids that you could be written in to.

There will be 3, hour-long, interactive sessions focusing on; ‘Worker Voice’, ‘Governance and Reporting and ‘Legislation and Regulation’. Each session will be hosted by a Lancaster academic and a partner organisation, please see the proposed agenda below. Our ambition is for projects to emerge within each of these ‘categories’ and/or projects that cut across all 3 areas. To support the early stages of project development there will be a small pot of funding available.

Agenda

09.30 - 09.50 Registration

09.50 - 10.00 Welcome and Introduction led by Distinguished Professor Linda Hendry at Lancaster University

10.00 - 11.00 Worker voice led by Dr Matthew Young; Research, Participation and Policy Manager at Causeway, and Dr Divya Jyoti; Lecturer at Lancaster University and Director

at Justice in Fashion.

11.00 - 11.30 Break

11.30 - 12.30 Legislation & Regulation led by Auréliane Froehlich; Programme Manager at Wikirate, Abigail Munroe; Senior Modern Slavery Analyst at Walk Free, and Dr. Mahmoud Gad; Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University.

12.30 - 13.15 Lunch

13.15 - 14.15 Governance & Reporting led by Freya Smith; Business Engagement Manager at Unseen and Professor Jan Bebbington; Professor at Lancaster University, the Rubin Chair in Sustainability in Business, and Director of the Pentland Centre.

14.15 – 14.30 Wrap up and next steps

14.30 Close

NB: This will be an invite-only event. Refreshments and lunch will be supplied.