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Our 2016 report examined violence against women, harassment and hate crime affecting university students.
Changing the culture report
The report offers a strategic framework to support universities in addressing and responding to harassment between students.
It includes five principles to prevent and respond to all forms of harassment which can be customised by each university to use in their own settings. The framework recognises that having policies and processes in place are not enough. They must be underpinned by long term change in institutional culture.
Our taskforce
This report summarises the evidence considered by the Universities UK taskforce to examine violence against women, harassment and hate crime affecting university students, and makes a series of recommendations for universities and UUK. These recommendations cover both prevention activities and how universities can respond to these issues more effectively in future.
Universities UK established the taskforce in 2015. It met four times over a 12-month period and considered a vast range of evidence from individual universities, the National Union of Students and other organisations including Rape Crisis, Tell MAMA, the Union of Jewish Students and Stonewall.
The report includes a number of case studies from individual universities as well as links to key support agencies that can assist students who have experienced violence, harassment or hate crime.
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Guidance for allegations of student misconduct
We also published advice to universities on handling alleged student misconduct which may also constitute a criminal offence.
These guidelines were drafted following evidence to suggest that the existing guidance in this area was no longer wholly relevant.