Dr Wendy Asquith is Research Fellow with the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre and based in the Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool. She specializes in interdisciplinary research across the arts, humanities and social sciences with interests in cultural diplomacy, histories of humanitarianism and postcolonial politics. Her research explores how creative approaches can enable more equitable and inclusive partnerships and more effective policy interventions in international development. In recent years she has collaborated with a range of partners to deliver impact-focussed, international research projects on arts-based and community-led antislavery initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa and the inclusion of lived experience expertise in antislavery policy and programming.