Support

Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment can include any of the following behaviours:

• Any unwanted conduct of a sexual nature;
• Verbal harassment includes whistling, catcalling, sexual comments, sexual innuendo, telling sexual jokes, displaying pictures of a sexual nature, making sexual gestures, and sending emails containing sexual content.
• ‘Revenge porn’ - the disclosing of private photographs and films with intent to cause distress.
• Stalking which is persistent and unwanted attention (in person or online) which makes you feel fearful, harassed or anxious.

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Sexual Harassment Topics

Sexual Violence

Sexual violence or sexual assault can include:

• unwanted touching and kissing;
• rubbing, groping or forcing a person to touch another person in sexual ways;
• catcalling or whistling;
• non-consensual electronic sharing of explicit images;
• exposure of genitals;
• secretive viewing of others naked or during sex

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Sexual Violence Topics

Relationship Abuse

Relationship abuse (also referred to as 'domestic violence') can take many forms within an intimate relationship.

Behaviours include:

• emotional and verbal abuse
• physical and sexual abuse
• financial abuse e.g. controlling or limiting access to money
• sexual abuse and coercion e.g. ignoring you if you don't want to have sex
• digital / online abuse
• forced marriage and honour-based violence

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Relationship Abuse Topics

Hate Crime/Incident

Incidents of hate crime can be against a person or against property and includes materials posted online. Some examples of hate crime include:

• Verbal abuse like name-calling and offensive jokes
• Harassment
• Bullying or intimidation by children, adults, neighbours or strangers
• Physical attacks such as hitting, punching, pushing or spitting
• Threats of violence

 

Hate Crime/Incident Topics

Consent

The law in the UK defines consent as being given when someone agrees by choice, and has the freedom and capacity to make that choice.

Consent is:

• respectful;
• retractable;
• voluntary;
• comfortable;
• communication;

Consent is NOT:

• pressured;
• being in a relationship;
• assumed;
• deception or manipulation;
• under the influence;
• previous consent

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Consent Topics

What happens after a report is made?

The University has robust policies and procedures in place for supporting staff and students who have made a report. 

Find out more about how the disclosure and support process works, including what happens if a report is made about you.

• Non-academic misconduct process;
• How the University handles a complaint;
• Staff discipline process;

 

What happens after a report is made? Topics

Bullying

Bullying is offensive, intimidating, malicious or insulting behaviour involving the misuse of power that can make a person feel vulnerable, upset, humiliated, patronised, undermined or threatened and creates an intimidating working or learning environment.

It may include:

• physical or psychological threats;
• overbearing and intimidating levels of supervision;
• inappropriate derogatory remarks or criticism about someone’s performance;
• deliberately excluding someone from work or social activities;
• regularly making jokes about someone or belittling them

Bullying Topics

Discrimination

Discrimination occurs when someone is treated unfairly because of who they are or because of a protected characteristic.

Under the Equality Act 2010, protected characteristics encompass:

• age
• disability
• gender reassignment
• race
• religion or belief
• sex
• sexual orientation
• marriage and civil partnership
• pregnancy and maternity

However discrimination can also include smaller, less obvious behaviours or microaggressions that can make a person feel like doesn't belong or invalidates their experience.

Discrimination Topics

Staff and Student Training

As a University, we want to educate, inform and empower our community to recognise signs of GBV, within our own behaviour and attitudes, as well as others’. 

We have a number of training modules available to staff and students.

These include:

• Consent on Campus
• Bystander Training
• Responding Appropriately to Disclosures of Sexual Violence

Staff and Student Training Topics