The Centre for Transformative and Global Justice is committed to ensuring that our research is policy-relevant, and leads to positive social and environmental change, with a focus on rights and accessible justice. We do this through strategic advocacy efforts, lobbying and campaigns to influence policies, legislation, and practices at local, national, and international levels. The focus of our transformative impacts ranges from the local, as with our work combatting knife crime and understanding its impacts on communities, to the global, as evidenced by our research on international procurement practices and due diligence. In essence, we work to reduce all forms of violence: violence against individuals, violence against communities and violence against the environment.
This work directly contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
- Our development of international guidelines and the Safe Schools Declaration for the protection of schools and universities from military use during armed conflicts, endorsed by more than 100 states, supports Quality Education (SDG4).
- Our research on the global electronics supply chains has led to public procurement professionals and policy makers at national and international levels to address their human rights’ impact, supporting Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG12)
- The Innocence Project London, established by our researchers in 2010, supports Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (SDG16), by enabling law and criminology students to review cases of convicted individuals who have exhausted the criminal appeals process yet maintain their innocence.
Partners
A core strength of the Centre for Transformative and Global Justice, and why our research is so impactful, is the variety of working relationships our scholars have cultivated with external organisations, locally and nationally, and worldwide. Our public sector partners range from the London Borough of Newham, the Local Government Association and the West London NHS Trust to the UK Home Office’s Modern Slavery Prevention Unit and the Metropolitan Police Service. We also work collaborate with numerous charities working on rights and justice issues including Liberty, Human Rights at Sea, Power the Fight, Partisan UK, London Youth and the Fair Trade Advocacy Organisation. Among are international partners are the European Parliament, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the International Labour Organization, the European Institute for Chinese Studies, the Bank of Italy and the United Nations Development Programme.
The Centre for Transformative and Global Justice also frequently join forces with academic colleagues at other higher educational institutions around the UK (e.g., University of Nottingham, Derby University, University of Essex, Goldsmiths University, University of Greenwich the West of England) and overseas (e.g., University of Barcelona, Cardenal Herrera University of Valencia, Danish Institute of Human Rights, Wageningen University in the Netherlands, Fresno State University, Kansas State University, the Università del Piemonte Orientale and Beijing Normal University).