Dr Alicia Heys

Alicia is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Slavery at the Wilberforce Institute where she researches issues of policy, agency, representation and legal enforcement. She has conducted in depth research into the relationship between conflict and human trafficking, with a monograph published by Oxford University Press on the topic.

Alicia is particularly interested in bridging the gap between academia and practice, working with practitioners to shape and share her research. She is Chair of the Humber Modern Slavery Partnership and a Co-Investigator on the AHRC's Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre.

Alicia supervises PhD students looking at issues of modern slavery, exploitation, and exploitative migration.