Leona Vaughn

Currently Research Fellow in anticolonial approaches to studies of slavery and unfree labour at University of Liverpool, Leona holds a PhD in Sociology and Master in Social Research. She has led a number of global interdisciplinary research projects with academic, civil society, and community-based partners, including the international consultation and development of safeguarding principles for UK Collaborative for Development Research.

Leona is a skilled programme evaluator and policy writer, most recently leading global research on vulnerability to modern slavery at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (New York). She has designed, delivered and evaluated various projects related to equality and human rights in multiple settings, including as co-evaluator with Innervision Consultancy of National Museums Liverpool’s Sankofa Connections and Collections initiative which sought to explore and represent Black community experience and social history.

In CDCD she is acting as the External Evaluation expert.