Helen McCabe

Rights Lab Associate Professor in Political Theory

Email: helen.mccabe@nottingham.ac.uk

Dr. Helen McCabe (Politics and International Relations) leads the Rights Lab's work on forced marriage, as part of its Law and Policy Programme. Her research background includes the history of feminism and 'ideal' marriage, and she is working on a conceptual analysis and definition of forced marriage as a form of slavery today: the meaning, experience, prevalence, causes, consequences of forced and servile marriage, and how to end it. This includes work on lack of consent and the exercise of powers associated with property rights, work to map the existing legislation on forced and servile marriage globally, and an analysis of the definitions currently in use in international statues and domestic legislation.

In January 2020 Dr McCabe became an AHRC Early Careers Researcher Leadership Fellow with a project about forced marriage and modern slavery. Full Details are here

 Research and Projects

Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 on People Vulnerable to, or Already Experiencing, Forced Marriage

Survivor-Led Empowerment through Ethical Story-Telling and Image Creation

Survivor-Led Empowerment Through Ethical Story-Telling and Participatory Photography in Kenya

Understanding the Relationship between Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery

Survivors' Voices, Stories, and Images