Recent Research Projects

Professor Craig has directed or co-directed more than 100 research projects in the fields of ‘race’ and ethnicity, community development, modern slavery and local governance and for a wide variety of funding bodies.

Recent significant projects in which he has been involved include the following:

2008-9 Capacity building in social, economic and environmental development (OECD)

2008-9 Migrant workers, gangmasters and the GLA (Oxfam)

2008-9 Strategic review of migration (Yorkshire Forward)

2009-10 Mapping BME groups in York (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)

2009-10 Arab Muslims and integration (Australian Research Council)

2009-10 Poverty and Inequality in Scotland (Equality and HumanRights Commission)

2009-14 Forced labour in the UK (two studies) (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)

2010-12 Social care with Black and minority ethnic people (National Institute for Health Research)

2010-13 The Black and Minority Ethnic Third Sector (Third SectorResearch Centre)

2011-14 ‘Race’, crime and justice in the North East (Ministry of Justice/ Northumbria Criminal Justice Board/Durham University)

2011-12 Anti-trafficking legislation in the EU (EU/End Child Prostitution and Trafficking)

2013-17 Connected Communities (Arts and Humanities Research Council/ Economic and Social Research Council)

2013-15 Forced labour policy engagement (Economic and Social Research Council)

2014-15 EU case law on trafficking for labour exploitation, (Milieu Consulting, Brussels/EU)

2015-16 Racial justice in York (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)

2017 Supporting survivors of modern slavery (CooperativeSociety)

2018 Mapping supply chain research (Ethical Trading Initiative)

2018-19 Modern slavery in Cambridgeshire (Rosmini Project)

2019 Modern slavery: the local government response, Local Government Association

2019-2020 Young people and anti-trafficking in Ghana (AHRC/AKN/City Hearts)