We collaborate with research and knowledge exchange partners organisations, locally, nationally, and internationally. We share large grants, co-organise public events and knowledge exchange seminars, host visiting fellows and exchange researchers for short-term or long-term visits.

We are also part of the university’s Research Priority Area (RPA) in Rights and Justice. A flagship initiative that is part of the 2015-2020 Research Strategy, this RPA brings together 700 staff members and 250 postgraduates from 19 campus research centres, including C3R, and is the world’s largest cluster of rights and justice scholars. 

Research partners

• Antislavery Literature Project, Arizona State University
• Centre for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi
• Department of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara 
• Gilder Lehrman Centre for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, Yale University
• Human Rights Centre, Queens University Belfast
• Institute for Black Atlantic Research, University of Central Lancashire
• Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University
• James Weldon Johnson Institute, Emory University
• Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University
• The Postcolonial Studies Centre, Nottingham Trent University 
• Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, Harvard University
• Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program, Harvard University
• W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, Harvard University
• Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull
• Centre for Conflict, Rights and Justice, Nottingham Trent University