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Book SynopsisStopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education provides a unique insight into how gender-based violence at universities is impacting students and staff and outlines the path toward tangible changes that can prevent it. Bringing together perspectives from academics, activists, practitioners, and university administrators, the book presents a diverse range of voices to constructively critique the field.
Structured in three parts, the book begins by addressing the context, theory, and law that stipulates how universities can effectively respond to reports of gender-based violence. It goes on to discuss the most pragmatic ways to address the issue while contributing to prevention and supporting victim-survivors. Finally, the book advocates for the development of beneficial working partnerships with key external services available to university communities and also working with students as partners in an ethical and safe way. Throughout the book, contributors are invi
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Sexual violence is a global crisis in institutions of higher education, and the UK is far from immune. While many survivors have often been forced to carry the weight of advocacy on their own, it has always been clear that the fight for safer campuses must involve the entire university. Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education is a call to higher education professionals to understand the causes of violence, and encourage them to see ending gender-based violence as an occupational responsibility. Towl and Humphreys do an excellent job of assembling a collection of thoughts from experts across the UK, and send an urgent message to educators: it’s time to follow the lead of survivors, and join the fight to make our universities safer for all. - Andrea L. Pino-Silva, co-author of "We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out," and Co-Founder of End Rape on Campus, USA
Stopping Gender-Based Violence in Higher Education is an essential handbook that covers student-student, staff-student, and staff-staff violence. This collection will educate experts even as it provides direction for those new to handling complaints. Most importantly, the chapters centre in bold relief the experiences of victim-survivors. - Mara Keire, University of Oxford, UK
This comprehensive exploration into the many facets, manifestations and intersections of gender-based violence in higher education is long overdue. The insightful and well researched contributions make this essential reading for all those who work in the sector. - Amatey Doku, former Vice President Higher Education, National Union of Students (NUS) and Independent Board member, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK
This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in tackling campus violence. Drawing on diverse perspectives from across fields, it paints a sophisticated tableau of the problems faced, root causes, and possible solutions. Achieving a diverse and inclusive higher education sector requires the ambition and inclusive approach that this volume reflects. - Georgina Calvert-Lee, Senior Litigation Counsel, McAllister Olivarius, UK
"Sexual violence is a global crisis in institutions of higher education, and the UK is far from immune. While many survivors have often been forced to carry the weight of advocacy on their own, it has always been clear that the fight for safer campuses must involve the entire university. Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education is a call to higher education professionals to understand the causes of violence, and encourage them to see ending gender-based violence as an occupational responsibility. Towl and Humphreys do an excellent job of assembling a collection of thoughts from experts across the UK, and send an urgent message to educators: it’s time to follow the lead of survivors, and join the fight to make our universities safer for all." Andrea L. Pino-Silva, co-author of We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out, and co-Founder of End Rape on Campus, USA
"Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education is an essential handbook that covers student–student, staff–student, and staff–staff violence. This collection will educate experts even as it provides direction for those new to handling complaints. Most importantly, the chapters centre in bold relief the experiences of victim-survivors."
Mara Keire, University of Oxford, UK
"This comprehensive exploration into the many facets, manifestations and intersections of gender-based violence in higher education is long overdue. The insightful and well-researched contributions make this essential reading for all those who work in the sector."
Amatey Doku, former Vice President Higher Education, National Union of Students (NUS) and Independent Board member, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK
"This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in tackling campus violence. Drawing on diverse perspectives from across fields, it paints a sophisticated tableau of the problems faced, root causes, and possible solutions. Achieving a diverse and inclusive higher education sector requires the ambition and inclusive approach that this volume reflects."
Georgina Calvert-Lee, Senior Litigation Counsel, McAllister Olivarius, UK
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Contributors
List of Abbreviations
List of Tables
List of Figures
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- Introduction: We still have work to do
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Clarissa J. Humphreys and Graham J. Towl
Part 1
Context, Theory and Law
- The significance of culture in the prevention of gender-based violence in universities
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Melanie McCarry, Cassandra Jones and Anni Donaldson
- Hidden marks: The contribution of student leaders to tackling gender-based violence on campus
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Jim Dickinson and Sunday Blake
- Intersectional approaches to gender-based violence in universities: Experiences and interventions
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Geetanjali Gangoli and Cassandra Jones
- Violence and abuse, universities and LGBTQ+ students
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Catherine Donovan and Nicola Roberts
- Perceptions of consent in UK Higher Education: Implications for policy and training
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Ngozi Anyadike-Danes
- Sexual violence in Higher Education: Prevalence and characteristics of perpetrators
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Samuel T. Hales
- The legal framework: Limitations and opportunities
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Rachel Fenton and Janet Keliher
Part 2
Practice
- EmilyTest: From tragedy to change
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Fiona Drouet and Poppy Gerrard-Abbott
- Comprehensive institution-wide approach: What is means to be comprehensive
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Clarissa J. Humphreys and Graham J. Towl
- Staff sexual misconduct in Higher Education: Impacts, responses and challenges
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Anna Bull
- Case management as a dedicated role responding to gender-based violence in Higher Education
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Kelly Prince and Peta Franklin-Corben
- Investigation and interviewing: Responding to formal reports of sexual violence in Higher Education
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Carl Norcliffe and Andrea Pescod
- Primary prevention in Higher Education: Progress and opportunity
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Kelsey Paske
- Reflections on accessing and reporting on employee wellbeing data: Implications for hybrid-working and gender-based violence
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Rosanna Bellini
- We should do something (someday): Identifying and working through resistance to gender-based violence prevention
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Clarissa J. Humphreys and Graham J. Towl
Part 3
Partnerships
- How to involve students in work on gender-based violence
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Sunday Blake and Jim Dickinson
- Gender-based violence and Higher Education partnerships with sexual assault services
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Elizabeth Hughes and Tammi Walker
- Rape Crisis: Taking a partnership approach to addressing gender-based violence with universities and colleges across Scotland
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Niamh Kerr and Kathryn Dawson
- The role of regulation in addressing gender-based violence in Higher Education
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Amy Norton and Graham J. Towl
- Working with schools to tackle online harms and gender-based violence
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Andy Phippen and Emma Bond
- Conclusion: Future directions in addressing our problem with gender-based violence in Higher Education
Graham J. Towl and Clarissa J. Humphreys
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