Press releases

Staff at the University of Nottingham are to receive training from the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) to help them spot signs of modern slavery and labour exploitation.

Researchers in the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab, with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF US), have published a new report into modern slavery and the implications this activity may have upon ecosystems and the climate (and vice versa).

Professor Meryem Duygun, of the University Nottingham, has been conferred a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Children born today will face disproportionate increases in floods, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, and crop failures due to climate change.

Research led by the University of Nottingham has discovered two new species and a new genus of freshwater mussel in Borneo for the first time in almost 100 years.

A new study published today in Nature Food involving academics at The University of Nottingham calls attention to the need for better systems to track forced labour in food supply chains.

Professor Paul Roberts, a leading researcher and law teacher at the University of Nottingham has been made a Fellow of the prestigious British Academy.

New research has enabled economic experts to pinpoint the UK’s local authorities most in need of the government’s £4.8 billion Levelling Up Fund.

A consortium of modern slavery experts, led by the University of Nottingham, have assisted the Greek government to tackle a humanitarian crisis unfolding in the strawberry fields of southern Greece.

New research by the University of Nottingham has found that the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the issues faced by migrant workers in the UK Agri-Food (agriculture and food) industry, making them more vulnerable to exploitation.