Exploratory Workshops

WHAT WERE THE WORKSHOPS?

We hosted two exploratory workshops with stakeholders in Autumn 2021. The first aimed to understand and discuss what is meant by modern slavery and trafficking, what counts as an outcome, the nuances and feasibility of "recovery", who defines recovery, and to generate a very broad list of outcomes. In our second workshop, we looked at what should be in the scope of our research, how stakeholder outcomes differed with the outcomes identified thus far in our research, how we should group outcomes together and what happens once we have a core outcome set.

You can find a summary of the workshops here.

WHO WAS AT THE WORKSHOPS?

We had representatives from academic institutions, including the University of Nottingham, King’s College London, University College London, the University of Liverpool, Queen Mary University and the University of Bedfordshire. Also attending are experts by lived experience from organisations including Survivor Alliance and the Voice of Domestic Workers. Government representatives from the Home Office, Department for Health and Social Care, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and from the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner’s office attended. Finally, we had many participants representing non-profit organisations including Snowdrop, the Helen Bamber Foundation, the Salvation Army and the International Organisation for Migration
You can find a summary of the workshops here.

THE WORKSHOP FORMAT

The workshop included a mixture of short presentations, large group discussions and smaller group discussions. During the workshops, we had small group discussions in breakout rooms. During these discussions, we used the ‘padlet’ website (https://padlet.com /) to make notes on the discussions and allow people to contribute to the discussion anonymously. Padlet is an online post-it wall. It allows individuals (and large / small groups) to post their comments, questions, and resources in one place that is easily accessible to everyone from the group. Padlet works on any internet-enabled device, including: PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone.

THANK YOU

This workshop could not have happened without the input of a large array of supporters. Special thanks go to all our workshop facilitators including Finia Kuhlmann, Sabah Rafique, Siofra Peeren, Anjuli Kaul and Lena Mohamed. Thanks also, to Minh Dang and Bee Damara for putting in an extra long shift and running the post-workshop survivor debrief space.