Dr Mick Wilkinson
| Biography | Mick has been a Permanent Associate at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE), Hull, since its inception in 2006. Over the past 20 years he has taught across a range of disciplines: politics, social policy, development studies, gender & identity, sociology and criminology. In a previous life Mick was a Yorkshire miner and punk lyricist. His great passions are political history, countercultures and radical forms of expression in music, theatre and the arts. Presentations include: - ‘Reclaiming the agenda on immigration: forging positive narratives in a ‘small island’ nation.’ To Talking Heads, Headingly Enterprise & Arts Centre, Leeds, March 2020 - 'Challenging the border mentality: A time to revisit our commitment to the Refugee Convention.' To HEART/Leeds Festival of Ideas, May 2019 - 'Critical community engagement.' to FREEDOM TALKS: Big Picture Activism for Systemic Change led by Local Futures, Hull Freedom Festival, Sept. 2018 - 'Negligence Most Profound: HM Government culpability in the growth of modern slavery in the UK.' To Headingley Development Trust, (HEART) Leeds, Feb. 2018 - The rhetoric and the reality of tacking modern slavery in the Brexit era.' To U3A, Hunmanby, Nov. 2017 - 'Neoliberalism and the destruction of the Welfare State'. To Hull People's Politics Oct. 2016 - 'Migrant workers in the UK and in the region: the solidarity imperative'. To Hull Trades Council, Feb 2016 - 'Swimming against the tide: Destitution as an instrument of Government'. To Hull and East Riding Citizens Advice Bureau Advice Forward Partnership Conference, Hull University, Aug. 2015. - 'A Safety net shredded on the playing fields of Eton'. To Financial Inclusion Conference, Hull & East Riding CAB, Hull, Sept. 2014. - 'Not fit for Purpose: UK Government approaches to tackling trafficking for sexual slavery'. To University of the Third Age, Hull, June, 2014. - 'One step forward, two steps back. Who will protect the unprotected?' To the Forced Labour Monitoring Group policy forum ‘Forced labour: Current Issues and Debates' London, Jan. 2013 - 'Trafficking for the UK sex trade'. To the Inner Wheel Club, AGM, Hull, Jan. 2013 - 'Who will Protect the Unprotected? Trafficking and sexual slavery in the UK'. To ‘Modern Slavery, Women & Resistance,' International Women's Day Conference, Guildhall, Hull, March 2012 |
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| Research Interests | Research interests include: social justice; slavery in the 21st century; transnational organised crime; inequalities and social divisions; poverty and social exclusion; power, resistance and rebellion; migration; refugees and asylum; race, racism and multiculturalism. |
| Teaching and Learning | Postgraduate - Key Issues in Identity Politics - Development Studies Undergraduate - 'Race' and Social Justice - Inequalities, Social Divisions & Social Change - Modern Slavery - Transnational Organised Crime - Community & Youth Work: Politics, Policy and Action - Equality and Diversity: Policy and Practice |
| Scopus Author ID | 7401695931 |