OverviewStaff to student sexual misconduct is a serious yet complex issue to navigate. This is why Universities UK are organising a one-day event designed to help universities explore existing policy, practice and research to address staff-to-student sexual misconduct, and gender-based violence, and to review current models of practice at both a national and international level.
Why should you attend?
Blurring boundaries between students and staff; organisational power imbalances; varying context across the UK and between different universities; all these issues make staff to student harassment a complex issue to manage. This event is an opportunity to look at what we know about the nature and scale of the problem, and provide a view of the issues and the types of interventions required at a global system level as well as recommendations for improving practice at an institutional level.
We will explore the legal and policy context, along with the design of policies, why we need to look at institutional cultures to drive change; and initiatives already in place to tackle this form of harassment.
The input from the conference will be used to feed into UUK's new guidance to support universities to create a whole institution approach to tackling staff to student sexual misconduct due Spring 2020.
Who should attend?
This conference will be useful for all university staff who have responsibility for or play a part in conducting inquiries and investigations. This conference is open to all with an interest in this topic, however particularly relevant job titles include:
- Director/Head of Student Services
- Director/Head of Human Resources
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer/Manager
- Head of Student Conduct and Appeals
- Director/Head of Student Support & Wellbeing
- Community Liaison Managers/ Community Engagement
- Director/Head of Student Counselling
- Director/Head of Student Wellbeing
- Head of Security
If you have any questions about this or any other of our events, please contact us on events@universitiesuk.ac.uk or 020 7419 5535.
We also have a range of sponsorship opportunities available at this event. Please contact Esther Dudley, Head of Events and Engagement for information. tel: 020 7419 5412; email: esther.dudley@universitiesuk.ac.uk.
