Dr Sabina Lawreniuk
Principal Investigator

Sabina is a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham and current holder of a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (2022–2026). She works on the promotion of workers’ rights and women's rights in the global garment and footwear industry, with a long-term area focus on the political economy of Cambodia. Her past projects include work exploring women’s trade union representation (funded by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship 2017–2020), COVID-19 impacts (funded by the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund 2020–2022) and climate change (funded by the British Academy 2021–2022) in Cambodia’s garment industry. Sabina is project lead for our research sites in Cambodia and the UK. For updates follow her on Twitter @SabinaLawreniuk.

Dr Katharina Grueneisl
Research Fellow

Katharina is an urban and economic geographer and postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham. Her research examines urban transformations, relations of work, and economies of circulation, with a focus on the garment and used clothing economy in Tunisia and Jordan. Katharina is project lead for our research sites in Jordan. For updates follow her on Twitter @katharinagrneis.

Dr Olivia Howland
Research Fellow

Olivia is an anthropologist and an artist specialising in visual methodologies, gender, and health related fields. Her work in Kenya and Tanzania has covered livelihoods, indigenous medicines, informal alcohol brewing, WASH and One Health. Olivia uses and explores novel and visual methods in her work, which is primarily ethnographically informed, as well as working with transdisciplinary study design and reflexive techniques. Olivia is project lead for our research sites in Ethiopia. 

Prof Nikolaus Hammer
Co-Investigator

Nik is Professor in Work and Employment in the University of Leicester School of Business. He also is a CoI in a leading global network on globalisation and work (crimt.org). Nik’s research focuses on work and employment in global value chains. He has led a key research project on supply chain relations and working conditions in UK garment manufacturing (funded through the Ethical Trading Initiative). Nik regularly engages with government bodies as well as national and international media on the fashion value chain. His current research examines the enforcement of minimum labour standards in the apparel value chain. 

Gráinne Fay
PhD Candidate

Gráinne is a PhD candidate in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham. Focusing on labour justice, her research looks at occupational health and safety in Cambodia’s garment industry. Using feminist approaches to political economy and political ecology, her work makes visible the intimacy of violence embedded in global supply chains.