Amy holds a LLB (Honours) from Cardiff University in Law and French and an LL.M (with distinction) from University of Nottingham in Human Rights Law. Amy has been enrolled at VUB since January 2015 as a PhD Candidate conducting research on trafficking in human beings for the purposes labour exploitation, analysing the effectiveness of the implementation of the European legal framework and the handling of labour exploitation in law. She has been involved in a wide number of European funded projects, including the TRACE Project (2015-2017) which aimed to support stakeholders in combating and disrupting human trafficking, a form of modern-day slavery and one of the largest criminal enterprises in the world, by assessing and consolidating information surrounding the perpetrators and the wider trafficking enterprise and the DESIrE project (2017-2018) that aimed to better understand the impact of sex work legislation on the prevalence of trafficking in human beings.
Amy has presented her academic research at numerous national and international conferences, including: “Human Trafficking - a crime with too few convictions and too many victims” Latvian CBSS Presidency, Riga, Latvia (2019); Conference on Rights at Work – Tackling labour exploitation in Poland, Bulgaria, Romania and the Netherlands, The Netherlands (2018); International Migration Conference: EU at the crossroads of migration: critical reflections on the ‘refugee crisis’ and New migration deals, The Netherlands (2018); 8th Annual International Symposium on Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling, Belgium (2018); Migrating out of Poverty: From Evidence to Policy conference, UK (2017); IASFM 16: Rethinking Forced Migration and Displacement: Theory, Policy, and Praxis, Poland (2016); The European Union in International Affairs V, Belgium (2016)