Caroline Emberson

Rights Lab Assistant Professor in Operations Management

Email: caroline.emberson@nottingham.ac.uk 

Dr Caroline Emberson is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management within the Operations Management and Information Systems department at Nottingham University Business School and a member the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab Business and Economies Programme. Her research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the charitable foundation Trust for London and the charity Anti-Slavery International and focuses currently upon modern slavery risk in long-term care. She has contributed to national and international public consultations by the Joint Committee on Human Rights; the Labour Market Inspectorate; the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration and the Home Affairs Select Committee, the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery and the Canadian Government. She has spoken about her work in English Adult Social Care at the House of Lords and designed and delivered national and regional workshops on the modern slavery risks in adult social care for local government and the NHS.

Research Projects

Better Work: Care Worker Vulnerability in London

Domestic Servitude: An Investigation of the Risk Arising from the Growth of Home-Based Personalised Care Services for An Aging UK Population

Estimating the Nature and Extent of Labour Exploitation among Domestic Workers in the UK

Evaluation of the By-Law Component of Anti-Slavery International’s Tanzanian Child Domestic Workers Project

Modern slavery risk assessment and due diligence in Adult Social Care