


“Consumers have a powerful role to play in the fight against modern slavery, but due to a lack of awareness, understanding or motivation, this potential is yet to be realised.”
-Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Annual Report 2020-21
About
Michal, Andreas and Deirdre are an international team who have been working collaboratively for over a decade. They have a significant body of research on modern slavery that focuses on understanding consumer-citizen perspectives to support action and underpin policy on modern slavery and related environmental impacts, including, climate change.
Michal Carrington

Michal Carrington is the Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Business & Economics and an Associate Professor of Marketing. Michal's research interests focus on ethics and morality in consumption and markets, and with Andreas and Deirdre, she has a significant body of research exploring consumer perspectives of modern slavery – the ‘demand side’ of the modern slavery chain. Michal’s research is widely published in top-tier international marketing and management journals, and Michal is a section editor at the Journal of Business Ethics.
Andreas Chatzidakis

Professor of Marketing and Consumer Culture at Royal Holloway University of London. Andreas's research focuses on the broader intersection(s) of consumption with ethics and politics. It has been published in numerous journals, and in books such as Gendering Marketing (with P Maclaran), Contemporary Issues in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour (with P Maclaran, E Parsons and R Ashman) and Consumer Ethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (with D Shaw and M Carrington). He is a co-editor in chief of Marketing Theory, a journal specializing in conceptual and critical approaches to marketing and consumer behaviour. He is also member of the Care Collective, author of the Care Manifesto (Verso, 2020), now translated in 14 languages. He has a significant body of research on modern slavery in collaboration with Michal and Deirdre.
Professor Deirdre Shaw

Professor of Consumer Ethics and Sustainability at Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. Deirdre has researched the area of consumption ethics throughout her career, publishing on the subject in a range of international journals; contributing to books and non-academic publications and giving invited talks, supervising PhD researchers in this area and advising policy, business and third sector. She is Associate Director for the University of Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Solutions. In collaboration with Andreas and Michal, Deirdre has a significant body of ongoing research on modern slavery.
Research
Reports



(2021) Addressing Consumer Awareness and (in)action Towards Modern Slavery. Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre.
(2020) Modern Slavery From Production to Consumption
(2018) Consuming Modern Slavery.
Journal Articles
(2021) Consuming worker exploitation? Accounts and justifications for consumer (in)action to modern slavery. Work, Employment and Society.
Other Articles
(2021) Modern slavery: how consumers can make a difference. Conversation.
(2018) We all buy slave-made products: here’s how we avoid feeling guilty. Conversation.
