A starting point

  • Portrait of Audre Lorde

    The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action

    A text of Audre Lorde's paper delivered at the Modern Language Association’s ‘Lesbian and Literature Panel’, Chicago, 28 December 1977. First published in Sinister Wisdom 6 (1978).

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    The 1752 group

    The 1752 Group draws on expertise from our backgrounds in organisational change, student unions, private and public sector consultancy, facilitation, corporate training, grassroots activism, and research.

    Their work has contributed to a national conversation in the UK and they are leading action on staff sexual misconduct in higher education.

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  • Degrees of abuse inverstigation logo, showing educational tools and a hand marked with a #notok tag

    Degrees of Abuse Investigation

    Some of the world’s most elite universities are failing to protect their students when it comes to sexual misconduct by staff or other students.

    A series of podcasts and videos reveal why students say university complaints systems are stacked against them and how sexual misconduct by university staff and students has extensively affected the lives of women in academia.

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Research

Staff misconduct & complaint processes

 

Bull, Anna, and Tiffany Page. “Students’ Accounts of Grooming and Boundary-Blurring Behaviours by Academic Staff in UK Higher Education.” Gender and Education 33, no. 8 (2021): 1057–72. Read

Bull, Anna, and Tiffany Page. “The Governance of Complaints in UK Higher Education: Critically Examining ‘Remedies’ for Staff Sexual Misconduct.” Social & Legal Studies 31, no. 1 (2021): 27–49. Read

Franklin, Sarah. “Sexism As A Means Of Reproduction: Some Reflections On The Politics Of Academic Practice.” New Formations 86, no. 86 (2015): 14–33. Read

Page, Tiffany, Anna Bull, and Emma Chapman. “Making Power Visible: ‘Slow Activism’ to Address Staff Sexual Misconduct in Higher Education.” Violence Against Women 25, no. 11 (2019): 1309–30. Read

Calafell, Bernadette Marie. “‘Did It Happen Because of Your Race or Sex?’: University Sexual Harassment Policies and the Move against Intersectionality.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 35, no. 3 (2014): 75. Read

Phipps, Alison, and Geraldine Smith. “Violence against Women Students in the UK: Time to Take Action.” Gender and Education 24, no. 4 (2012): 357–73. Read

Research

Sexual violence, harassment & the university

 

Cantalupo, Nancy Chi. “And Even More of Us Are Brave: Intersectionality & Sexual Harassment of Women Students of Color.” Harvard Journal of Law and Gender 42 (2019): 1–81. Read

Harris, Jessica C. “Centering Women of Color in the Discourse on Sexual Violence on College Campuses.” In Intersections of Identity and Sexual Violence on Campus: Centering Minoritized Students’ Experiences, edited by Jessica C. Harris and Chris Linder, 42–57. Sterling: Stylus, 2017.

Iloh, Constance. “Academic Mobbing and Bullying Offline and Online: The Health Hazard Academia Ignores.” Humanities and Social Science Research 4, no. 4 (2021): 12–15. Read

Phipps, Alison. “‘Lad Culture’ and Sexual Violence Against Students.” In The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence, edited by Nancy Lombard, 2017. Read

———. “Reckoning up: Sexual Harassment and Violence in the Neoliberal University.” Gender and Education 32, no. 2 (2020): 227–43. Read

———. “(Re)Theorising Laddish Masculinities in Higher Education.” Gender and Education 29, no. 7 (2017): 815–30. Read

Phipps, Alison, and Isabel Young. “‘Lad Culture’ in Higher Education: Agency in the Sexualisation Debates.” Sexualities 18, no. 4 (2015): 459–79. Read

———. “Neoliberalisation and ‘Lad Cultures’ in Higher Education.” Sociology 49, no. 2 (2015): 305–22. Read

Research

Athena SWAN

 

Bhopal, Kalwant, and Holly Henderson. “Competing Inequalities: Gender versus Race in Higher Education Institutions in the UK.” Educational Review 73, no. 2 (2021): 153–69. Read

Henderson, Holly, and Kalwant Bhopal. “Narratives of Academic Staff Involvement in Athena SWAN and Race Equality Charter Marks in UK Higher Education Institutions.” Journal of Education Policy, 2021, 1–17. Read

Tsouroufli, Maria. “An Examination of the Athena SWAN Initiatives in the UK: Critical Reflections.” In Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy: Higher Education, Gender and Intersectionality, by Gail Crimmins, 35–54. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Read

Tzanakou, Charikleia, and Ruth Pearce. “Moderate Feminism within or against the Neoliberal University? The Example of Athena SWAN.” Gender, Work & Organization 26, no. 8 (2019): 1191–1211. Read

Reports & Surveys

 

Dey, Adrija. “North-South Feminist Dialogue: Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Higher Education-Report,” 2020. Read

Bhopal, Kalwant and Holly Henderson. “Advancing Equality in Higher Education: An Exploratory Study of the Athena SWAN and Race Equality Charters,” 2019. Read

Alldred, Pam and Alison Phipps. “Training to Respond to Sexual Violence at European Universities: Final Report of the USVReact Project,” 2018. Read

Bull, Anna, and Rachel Rye. “Silencing Students: Institutional Responses to Staff Sexual Misconduct in UK Higher Education.” University of Portsmouth, The 1752 Group, 2018. Read

National Union of Students and The 1752 Group. “Power in the Academy: Staff Sexual Misconduct in UK Higher Education.” National Union of Students, 2018. Read

Phipps, Alison, Gemma North, Elizabeth McDonnell, Jess Taylor, and Gillian Love. “‘We Call It the Sussex Way’: A Study of Sussex University’s Institutional Culture,” 2018. Read