1st Edition
Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education Policy, Practice, and Partnerships
Stopping 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 invited to demonstrate a comprehensive institution-wide and trauma-informed approach to centre the needs of the victim-survivor and prioritize resources to undertake this vital work. Each chapter ends with a brief summary of key points or recommendations and suggested further reading on the chapter topic. Although the authors draw on research and policy from the UK Higher Education sector, the insights will be a useful resource for those in universities around the world.
This book is an essential reference point and resource for professionals, academics, and students in Higher Education, as well as indispensable reading for activists, policymakers, police, rape crisis groups, and other organisations supporting these universities who want to make meaningful change in reducing, responding to, and preventing gender-based violence in Higher Education.
Table of Contents
Contributors
List of Abbreviations
List of Tables
List of Figures
- Introduction: We still have work to do
- The significance of culture in the prevention of gender-based violence in universities
- Hidden marks: The contribution of student leaders to tackling gender-based violence on campus
- Intersectional approaches to gender-based violence in universities: Experiences and interventions
- Violence and abuse, universities and LGBTQ+ students
- Perceptions of consent in UK Higher Education: Implications for policy and training
- Sexual violence in Higher Education: Prevalence and characteristics of perpetrators
- The legal framework: Limitations and opportunities
- EmilyTest: From tragedy to change
- Comprehensive institution-wide approach: What is means to be comprehensive
- Staff sexual misconduct in Higher Education: Impacts, responses and challenges
- Case management as a dedicated role responding to gender-based violence in Higher Education
- Investigation and interviewing: Responding to formal reports of sexual violence in Higher Education
- Primary prevention in Higher Education: Progress and opportunity
- Reflections on accessing and reporting on employee wellbeing data: Implications for hybrid-working and gender-based violence
- We should do something (someday): Identifying and working through resistance to gender-based violence prevention
- How to involve students in work on gender-based violence
- Gender-based violence and Higher Education partnerships with sexual assault services
- Rape Crisis: Taking a partnership approach to addressing gender-based violence with universities and colleges across Scotland
- The role of regulation in addressing gender-based violence in Higher Education
- Working with schools to tackle online harms and gender-based violence
- Conclusion: Future directions in addressing our problem with gender-based violence in Higher Education
Clarissa J. Humphreys and Graham J. Towl
Part 1
Context, Theory and Law
Melanie McCarry, Cassandra Jones and Anni Donaldson
Jim Dickinson and Sunday Blake
Geetanjali Gangoli and Cassandra Jones
Catherine Donovan and Nicola Roberts
Ngozi Anyadike-Danes
Samuel T. Hales
Rachel Fenton and Janet Keliher
Part 2
Practice
Fiona Drouet and Poppy Gerrard-Abbott
Clarissa J. Humphreys and Graham J. Towl
Anna Bull
Kelly Prince and Peta Franklin-Corben
Carl Norcliffe and Andrea Pescod
Kelsey Paske
Rosanna Bellini
Clarissa J. Humphreys and Graham J. Towl
Part 3
Partnerships
Sunday Blake and Jim Dickinson
Elizabeth Hughes and Tammi Walker
Niamh Kerr and Kathryn Dawson
Amy Norton and Graham J. Towl
Andy Phippen and Emma Bond
Graham J. Towl and Clarissa J. Humphreys
Index
Biography
Clarissa J. Humphreys is a practitioner, trainer, and leading authority on addressing gender-based violence (GBV) in Higher Education. She is currently the Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response Manager at Durham University and has clinical experience working with survivors and perpetrators of GBV and with individuals with acute mental illnesses and co-occurring substance use issues.
Graham J. Towl is Professor of Forensic Psychology at Durham University and a former Chief Psychologist at the Ministry of Justice. He was peer (British Psychological Society) nominated as the most influential UK forensic psychologist. His publications on sexual violence at universities include two co-authored books and numerous blogs and articles in Higher Education outlets.
"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
