The Rights Track

In Episode 8, guest host Zoe Trodd, Director of The Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham interviews regular Rights Track host Todd Landman about taking a human rights approach to researching and tackling modern slavery. They reflect together on why this is important to their programme of research aiming to end modern slavery and on the important and insightful conversations that The Rights Track has had about the work in the Series to date. 00.00 – 05.40 Discussion around quantitative analysis and why it matters in the field of human rights and anti-slavery research. Todd points out that there are aspects of lives (attributes) which can be quantified and that this: Adds precision to analysis Allows comparison between groups of people at different scales and across countries Allows researchers to explore the relationships between different attributes or variables leading to generalisations and predictions Zoe then asks what this means for the relatively young field of modern slavery research. Todd agr