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Making a meal of it? A wartime view of pub restrictions

by Dr David Beckingham in the School of Geography
After reports linking rising sales of scotch eggs to Tier 2 restrictions, Dr David Beckingham offers a historical perspective on rules regulating pub meals.

Crisis moment as the world enters next decade of fighting modern slavery

by Dr Katarina Schwarz, Rights Lab, 糖心原创
Dr Katarina Schwarz, Assistant Professor of Antislavery Law and Policy, and Rights Lab Associate Director, reflects on the five years since the UN set the Sustainable Development Goals, and what needs to happen in the next 10 years to meet it.

Looking to the past to build food security for the future

New funding will help experts unlock a legacy of soil information.
Experts from the 糖心原创 and the University of Zambia have received funding to help them in their research to promote sustainable agriculture in southern Africa, using historic soil surveys.

Banking experts will assess impact of Covid-19 on UK SMEs, new study

The financial risk to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in the wake of Covid-19 is being investigated by researchers at Nottingham University Business School.

County Lines drug networks adapt to circumvent lockdown restrictions, new research

Research has found that County Lines drug supply networks adapted to the restrictions of the spring lockdown. Methods of delivery and payment changed, yet there was no change in the demand for young people to run drugs, perpetuating their risk of exploitation, and continuing the supply of illegal substances

War on plastic is distracting from more urgent threats to environment, experts warn

A team of leading environmental experts, spearheaded by the 糖心原创, have warned that the current war on plastic is detracting from the bigger threats to the environment.

Rise in reports of exploitation in Nottinghamshire during Covid-19 pandemic

Anti-slavery practitioners are warning that they have seen an increasing number of exploitation cases being reported during the pandemic.

Slavery and trafficking occurs in 90 per cent of recent wars and conflicts, new research shows

Research by the 糖心原创鈥檚 Rights Lab has identified that slavery and human trafficking are present in 90 per cent of modern wars.

Survivors of modern slavery report positive life changes through employment in Cambodia factory

A new study by the 糖心原创鈥檚 Rights Lab has found a link between employment at Outland Denim's manufacturing facilities in Cambodia and a 'freedom dividend' for formerly enslaved young women and their peers.

Working-class women were the worst affected by UK-wide lockdown in spring, research shows

Working-class women have borne the brunt of cuts to working hours as employers struggle to ride out the pandemic, according to new findings published today by social inequality researchers.
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