Professor Alex Balch

Professor Politics

    Research

    Immigration politics and policy

    Forced labour and human trafficking

    Research Grants

    The NRM and the changing visibility of modern slavery in the UK during the Coronavirus pandemic

    MODERN SLAVERY AND HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY EVIDENCE CENTRE (UK)

    August 2020 - September 2020

    Towards principles for equitable, lived-experience-engaged research and policy to address modern slavery: networking & co-design

    FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (UK), MODERN SLAVERY AND HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY EVIDENCE CENTRE (UK)

    September 2019 - March 2029

    African Programming and Research Initiative to End Slavery (APRIES)

    THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE'S OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (USA)

    October 2018 - September 2023

    Clothes, Chocolate and Children: Realizing the Transparency Dividend

    BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

    November 2017 - March 2019

    The Antislavery Knowledge Network: Community-Led Strategies for Creative and Heritage-Based Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa

    ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

    October 2017 - March 2022

    Emancipating the mind: History, Politics and Heritage

    BRITISH COUNCIL (UK)

    April 2017 - March 2018

    The Arab Spring – the view from Europe one year on

    UACES (UK)

    January 2012 - March 2012

    Organising the regulation of forced labour

    JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION (UK)

    December 2010 - March 2012

    Facilitating corporate social responsibility

    EUROPEAN COMMISSION

    September 2012 - December 2013

    The new agenda on Modern Slavery and Labour Exploitation in the UK

    JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION (UK)

    December 2014 - December 2016