Insecurity and exploitation
NCE has focused on the role of insecure work and labour exploitation but also sits on the Nottingham Financial Resilience Partnership to support its work to increase resilience in the city. This theme epitomises our role as a knowledge broker between up to date research and key policy debates helping to link together our new and emerging research insights with policy and decision makers.
Mapping the Drivers and Risks of Homicide
Partners: Andy Newton, James Hunter, Rich Pickford and Rowena Hill
Overview: Understanding the factors that may lead to homicide is a pressing policy topic. Working with colleagues at NTU and the Violence Reduction Partnership we are exploring the drivers and risk of homicide.
Duration: 1 year
Status: Active
Responsible Car Wash Scheme Evaluation
Partners: Rich Pickford, Ian Clark, Jack Barrett and Nidhi Sharma
Overview: Alongside the Work, Informalisation and Place Research Centre (WIP), NCE has undertaken an evaluation of differing models to tackle non-compliance in the hand car wash sector. This project charts a four site study and the impact each intervention had. It connects with a wider body of policy-engaged work on labour exploitation and the informal economy.
Duration: Less than a year
Status: Complete
Vulnerabilities to Modern Slavery? Predicting the presence and location of informalised workplaces in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic/co-led of Work, Informalisation and Place Research Centre
Partners: Ian Clark, James Hunter, Jack Barrett and Nidhi Sharma
Overview: NCE supported the bidding, delivery and impact dissemination of this AHRC project exploring informal work and the Covid-19 pandemic. It connects with a wider body of policy-engaged work on labour exploitation and the informal economy.
Duration: Less than a year
Status: Complete
RCWS Home Office Modern Slavery Prevention Fund
Partners: Rich Pickford, Ian Clark, James Hunter, Nidhi Sharma and Jack Barratt
Overview: NCE worked with colleagues in WIP and the Responsible Car Wash Scheme to develop and deliver a project that explored the most problematic hand car washes across three areas of the UK and how interventions and engagement affected them.
Duration: Less than a year
Status: Complete
Local Area Homelessness Classification (LAHC) Internal Knowledge Exchange bid
Partners: James Hunter, Rich Pickford, Richard Machin, Ian Mahoney, Eva Zemandl, Kelsey Bremman, Catrin Harris and Nidhi Sharma
Overview: LAHC has developed a cluster analysis tool to help understand which local authorities should be working together due to shared homelessness and housing characteristics.
Duration: Less than a year
Status: Complete
National Crime Agency Operations Aidant project
Partners: Rich Pickford, Ian Clark, Nidhi Sharma, Jack Barratt, James Hunter
Overview: Colleagues in WIP supported the National Crime Agency and partners to identify hand car wash locations across the whole of the UK to inform the summer 2022 Operation Aidant intensification which explored the link between serious and organised criminality and hand car washes.
Duration: Less than a year
Status: Complete
Minerva
Partners: Rowena Hill, James Hunter, Andy Newton, Irene Zempi, Lucy Betts and Rich Pickford
Overview: NTU colleagues have worked with Safer Essex on two successful STAR bids to explore and develop community based solutions to tackle violence against women and girls.
Duration: 1 year
Status: Active
Exploring the potential of a hand car wash licensing scheme
Partners: Ian Clark, Nidhi Sharma, Rich Pickford and James Hunter
Overview: Colleagues at WIP are working with NCE to explore the potential for a licences to operate model for hand car washes at a local authority level across the UK. This project is funded by the Institute for Knowledge Exchange Practice (IKEP).
Duration: 1 year
Status: Active
Out of the Ordinary
Partners: Rich Pickford, Chris Lawton, Paula Black, Sarah Burton, James Hunter and Daniel Wheatley
Overview: Out of the Ordinary explored the cost of living challenges of communities in places like Nottingham in 2017, building on the policy interest on Just About Managing families (JAMs).
Duration: 2 years
Status: Complete
Good Work Nottingham
Partners: Rich Pickford, Chris Lawton, Paula Black, Maria Karanika-Murray, Daniel Wheatley, Jack Rendall, Tom Vickers, Daniel King, Ian Clark, Kirsten Fazey, John Hudson, Magdalena Gilek, Zara Whysall, Mark Harris
Overview: Following the publication of the Taylor Review, NCE worked with a range of internal and external partners to explore how a place like Nottingham could become known as a good work city.
Duration: 2 years
Status: Complete
The Value of Breaks for Ordinary Working Families: an exploratory study
Partners: Paula Black, Rachel Harding, Jason Pandya-Wood and Atif Shafique
Overview: Following on from our work on ordinary working families, NCE worked with the Family Holiday Association to explore the value of short breaks for families who had little chance of a holiday.
Duration: 1 year
Status: Complete
Decent and Good Work in the Platform Economy: Private Hire and Taxi Work in Nottingham
Partners: Tom Vickers, David Dahill and Dominic Holland with Daniel King, Sharon Hutchings, Laura Garius and Jack Rendall
Overview: NCE supported the report design and policy engagement planning for this Work Futures project on private hire drivers in Nottingham which included the hosting of a policy roundtable and briefings.
Duration: Less than a year
Status: Complete
Working conditions and worker agency in e-commerce warehouses
Partners: Tom Vickers, Dominic Holland
Overview: NCE supported the report design and policy engagement planning for this Work Futures project on warehouse workers which included the hosting of a policy roundtable with international speakers and briefings.
Duration: Less than a year
Status: Complete