Kelsey Carthew is the Centre Manager at the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, based within the Department of War Studies. Previously, she worked at the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham supporting their research and work on ending modern slavery and at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health supporting research on global health and nutrition.

Kelsey holds an LLM in Public International Law from the University of Nottingham, a Postgraduate Certificate in International Security from Harvard University and a BA in International Studies and Politics from Fairfield University.