Current research

Exploring the nature and impacts of technology-facilitation commercial sexual exploitation

Building on work conducted in collaboration with the OSCE’s Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, this field of study explores the use of modern communications and information technologies, such as the internet, social media platforms, smartphones, and other digital tools, to engage in various aspects of human trafficking and sexual exploitation, with a particular focus on the Irish context.

North/South partnership

The All-Island Partnership to End Sexual Exploitation

A collaborative project in partnership with Belfast & Lisburn Women’s Aid, funded by Community Foundation Ireland – All-Island Fund

This partnership project is designed to address issues of prostitution and trafficking across the whole island of Ireland by means of a series of knowledge-exchange and dissemination events and opportunities aimed at enhancing both policy and practice responses to tackling sexual exploitation, in collaboration with a range of key stakeholders both North and South.