Academics based at Stirling University are set to take part in a special free first screening of a new BBC documentary exposing ‘dark secrets’ of the perfume industry.
The free screening of the BBC documentary will be aired at the Macrobert Arts Centre in the city, before some of those involved take part in a question and answer session.
It will be hosted on Wednesday evening (November 6), running between 5:30pm and 7:30pm.
The event is a collaboration between the BBC and the University of Stirling Management School’s Interdisciplinary Research in Supply Chain and Logistics (IRiSCaL) group.
The documentary filmmakers will join University of Stirling experts in child labour, child trafficking and business supply chains at the event to discuss the documentary’s findings and its implications.
In the documentary, BBC teams visited four locations in Egypt’s main jasmine-growing area in the Gharbia region in the summer of 2023.
They found children as young as five working at night to pick the jasmine supplied to some of the world’s leading perfume brands through factories in Egypt.
Among the experts set to take part in the discussions following the screening include Dr Umair Choksy, senior lecturer in management at the university.
Dr Choksy said: “This is a unique opportunity to dig deeper into the issues uncovered in Perfume’s Dark Secret.
“Together with the filmmakers’ experience and University of Stirling academics’ expertise, we know this will be a valuable and topical discussion.”