Kate Garbers

Rights Lab Visiting Fellow in Policy Evidence and Survivor Support 

Email: kate.garbers@nottingham.ac.uk

Kate Garbers is a Visiting Fellow with the Rights Lab’s Health and Communities Programme. Within the Rights Lab she has worked on several research projects aimed at providing robust evidence for better policy-making, including a project about the benefits of work for modern slavery survivors, and the harm caused by not working, as part of collaboration between the Rights Lab and the Office of the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner; and a second project in partnership with the Anti-Slavery Commissioner's office about the re-trafficking of modern slavery survivors in the UK. Kate is a Founder and former Director of the anti-slavery NGO Unseen. As part of her Directorship, she contributed to the strategic and operational direction of the charity as part of Unseen’s leadership team and held responsibility for the organisation's survivor support services, research and development. Her focus was working directly with survivors, law enforcement agencies and governments on how to effectively tackle the issue of trafficking and modern slavery.

Research Projects

Access to Work for Victims of Slavery and Trafficking

Hope at Home