Bethany Jackson

Contact

• workRoom A11 Highfield House
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Bethany.Jackson1@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I am a Research Fellow for the Rights Lab (A Beacon of Excellence) - housed within the 'Ecosystems and the Environment Programme' - with my work focusing on the environmental impacts of modern slavery in a number of ecosystems. I completed a BSc in Geography (2013-2016), and a PhD in Geography (funded by the Rights Lab, as part of the 'Data and Measurement Programme' supervised by Professors' Doreen Boyd and Kevin Bales) (2016-2020) both at the University of Nottingham. My research now focuses on a mixed methods approach to understanding the modern slavery-environment nexus, particularly via the application of remotely sensed data. Prior research has focused on a number of sectors including brick kilns, fish-processing, and fishing. My current research interests lie in the research of the impact of the nexus within the forestry sector and associated industries.

Expertise Summary

Remote Sensing, Modern Slavery, Forestry, Aquaculture, Environmental Degradation, Climate Change

Research Summary

My current research primarily focuses on the connection between modern slavery and tree loss, following a global assessment undertaken as part of my PhD. My current work in this area focuses around… read more

Recent Publications

• DOREEN BOYD, BERTRAND PERRAT, XIAODONG LI, BETHANY JACKSON, TODD LANDMAN, FENG LING, KEVIN BALES, AUSTIN CHOI-FITZPATRICK, JAMES GOULDING, STUART MARSH and GILES FOODY, 2021. Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. 8, 111
• BLACKSTONE, NICOLE TICHENOR, NORRIS, CATHERINE BENOIT, ROBBINS, TALI, JACKSON, BETHANY and DECKER SPARKS, JESSICA L., 2021. Risk of forced labour embedded in the US fruit and vegetable supply NATURE FOOD. 2(9), 692-+
• JACKSON, B., BOYD, D. S., IVES, C. D., DECKER SPARKS, J. L., FOODY, G. M., MARSH, S. and BALES, K., 2020. Remote sensing of fish-processing in the Sundarbans Reserve Forest, Bangladesh: an insight into the modern slavery-environment nexus in the coastal fringe Maritime Studies.
• JACKSON, BETHANY, SPARKS, JESSICA L. DECKER, BROWN, CHLOE and BOYD, DOREEN S., 2020. Understanding the co-occurrence of tree loss and modern slavery to improve efficacy of conservation actions and policies CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. 2(5),

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Current Research

My current research primarily focuses on the connection between modern slavery and tree loss, following a global assessment undertaken as part of my PhD. My current work in this area focuses around Brazil and other forest environments.

Current projects I am also involved with focus on the sustainability of food supply from a labour perspective, the impacts of climate change on forced marriage, and the quantification of the modern slavery-environment nexus.

Past Research

My PhD focused on the intersection of modern slavery and environmental degradation on three sectors and three varying scales: fish-processing (local scale), brick kilns (regional scale), and tree loss/forestry (global scale). The thesis primarily assessed this impact via the application of remote sensing and was a case study example of the connections that can be made to investigate the impacts of modern slavery.

• DOREEN BOYD, BERTRAND PERRAT, XIAODONG LI, BETHANY JACKSON, TODD LANDMAN, FENG LING, KEVIN BALES, AUSTIN CHOI-FITZPATRICK, JAMES GOULDING, STUART MARSH and GILES FOODY, 2021. Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. 8, 111
• BLACKSTONE, NICOLE TICHENOR, NORRIS, CATHERINE BENOIT, ROBBINS, TALI, JACKSON, BETHANY and DECKER SPARKS, JESSICA L., 2021. Risk of forced labour embedded in the US fruit and vegetable supply NATURE FOOD. 2(9), 692-+
• JACKSON, B., BOYD, D. S., IVES, C. D., DECKER SPARKS, J. L., FOODY, G. M., MARSH, S. and BALES, K., 2020. Remote sensing of fish-processing in the Sundarbans Reserve Forest, Bangladesh: an insight into the modern slavery-environment nexus in the coastal fringe Maritime Studies.
• JACKSON, BETHANY, SPARKS, JESSICA L. DECKER, BROWN, CHLOE and BOYD, DOREEN S., 2020. Understanding the co-occurrence of tree loss and modern slavery to improve efficacy of conservation actions and policies CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. 2(5),
• BETHANY JACKSON and JESSICA L. DECKER SPARKS, 2020. Ending slavery by decarbonisation? Exploring the nexus of modern slavery, deforestation, and climate change action via REDD+ Energy Research & Social Science. 69, 101610
• BOYD, D. S., JACKSON, B., WARDLAW, J., FOODY, G. M., MARSH, S. and BALES, K., 2018. Slavery from Space: Demonstrating the role for satellite remote sensing to inform evidence-based action related to UN SDG number 8 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 142(August 2018), 380-388
• BETHANY JACKSON, KEVIN BALES, SARAH OWEN, JESSICA WARDLAW and DOREEN S. BOYD, 2018. Analysing Slavery through Satellite Technology: How Remote Sensing Could Revolutionise Data Collection to Help End Modern Slavery Journal of Modern Slavery. 4(2), 169-199