Tackling Faculty/Staff Sexual Misconduct in Higher Education in The UK
Tackling Faculty/Staff Sexual Misconduct in Higher Education in The UK

Author(s): Anna Bull
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Higher Education , Studies in violence and power, Sociology of Education
Published by: Transkulturna Psihosocijalna Obrazovna Fondacija (TPO Foundation)
Keywords: sexual harassment; higher education; universities; students; gender-based violence; activism;
Summary/Abstract: This paper introduces new research and approaches for tackling faculty/staff sexual misconduct in higher education, focusing on the UK context. Despite media coverage on this issue in the UK in recent years, it has had significantly less attention in policy and research than student-student sexual misconduct. The talk outlines findings from recent research, firstly, exploring strategies for making staff/faculty sexual misconduct visible; second, theorising ‘grooming’ as a form of staff sexual misconduct; third, analysing complainants’ motivations for reporting staff sexual misconduct; and fourth, interrogating issues arising with formal complaints processes for addressing this issue. Finally, challenges and ways forward for this activism are laid out in the context of my work with The 1752 Group, a research and campaign organisation tackling faculty/staff sexual misconduct in higher education.

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