Alicia is a Lecturer in Modern Slavery at the Wilberforce Institute where she researches issues of policy, agency and representation. Her PhD looked at the relationship between conflict and modern slavery. Oxford University Press has contracted Alicia to develop this work into a monograph to be published in their Clarendon Series.
Alicia is a research fellow for the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre where she leads a workstream looking at the legal enforcement of modern slavery. She is currently co-investigator for an AHRC funded project researching the experiences of British survivors of modern slavery.
Alicia is particularly interested in bridging the gap between academia and practice, working with practitioners to shape and share her research. She is Chair of the Humber Modern Slavery Partnership and was principal investigator for an AHRC funded project developing training workshops for front line practitioners on responding to modern slavery.
Alicia supervises PhD students looking at issues of modern slavery, exploitation, and migration.
Research Interests
Modern slavery
Human trafficking
Supply chains and labour exploitation
Conflict and exploitation
National Referral Mechanism
Practitioner responses to modern slavery
Organised crime
