CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline on Monday! FemIDEAS invite abstracts for their upcoming conference, 'Transforming Theory, Policy, and Practice: Decolonise Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Higher Education.' More info: femideas.com/conference Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🏳️‍⚧️ We know unis are now updating their policies following the EHCR guidance on single-sex spaces. Here, Anna Bull calls for decisions to be informed by strong evidence, & points to regulatory requirements for institutions to ensure safety of trans & non-binary students. wonkhe.com/blogs/safety... 🧵

In case you missed it... Watch our recent webinar on the latest OfS regulatory requirements and our new toolkit for addressing harassment and sexual misconduct experienced by postgraduate researchers. Key points in 🧵! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDQb...

⚠️ Did you know the new regulatory requirements from the OfS on Harassment and Sexual Misconduct came into force on 1st August? For those implementing E6, we've launched a toolkit, tailored to help address the unique risks in this area for the doctoral community: 1752group.com/wp-content/u... 🧵!

Our August newsletter is out! mailchi.mp/1752group/au... Here you'll find: 🗣️ a call for papers 👨‍💻 our recent webinar recording 📝 our new toolkit on addressing harassment & sexual misconduct experienced by PGRs 🚻 Anna Bull's response to the EHCR single-sex guidance And more...

what an interesting story in here about a ~*Cambridge professor*~ open.substack.com/pub/thefence...

How should higher education institutions deal with harassment & sexual misconduct by 3rd parties who are not staff or students? These cases present fewer opportunities for prevention & response. This question is addressed in our new toolkit: ukcge.ac.uk/assets/resou...

Our new toolkit, 'Addressing harassment and sexual misconduct experienced by postgraduate researchers', tackles some of the hardest qu's in harassment prevention. E.g. How to prevent abuses of power? Won't there always be those who abuse trust & authority? Read & share! ukcge.ac.uk/assets/resou...

If you work in #HigherEducation this toolkit is essential reading. From 01/08/25 the OfS are adding a new condition of registration ("E6") regulating #HEIs in England on preventing and responding to harassment and sexual misconduct. #PostGraduate researchers are particularly at risk. #Academia

Postgraduate researchers may be overlooked by incoming sexual harassment regulations in English universities, warns @the1752group.bsky.social @ukcge.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/phd-stu... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

We've just published a free toolkit in collaboration with Dr Anna Bull, Dr Kelly Prince and @the1752group.bsky.social‬. It covers how reports of harassment and sexual misconduct by postgraduate researchers should be addressed by universities. bit.ly/3ZYPi1q

Are you aware of the OfS’s new requirements for addressing harassment and sexual misconduct in PGE? Dr Anna Bull (@the1752group.bsky.social) discusses it here and in an event on June 19th. bit.ly/3H3C9O2

I may be revisiting the recording of today’s launch - which was packed full of insights… @ukcge.bsky.social @annabull.bsky.social @the1752group.bsky.social

Are you involved in preventing harassment and sexual misconduct in higher education? Ever wondered about how to reach postgraduate research students with your work? We've just launched a toolkit to help! ukcge.ac.uk/assets/resou...

Lovely to see the @the1752group.bsky.social's statement. Thank you for that 1752group.com/2025/05/02/s...

Powerful words from @the1752group.bsky.social, who work to end sexual misconduct in universities: "The Supreme Court judgement risks making trans and non-binary people even more unsafe...these shameful figures on the prevalence of sexual violence and harassment...are likely to grow even higher."

Please read our @the1752group.bsky.social statement in solidarity with the UK trans and non-binary community: lnkd.in/gr-UH3VP HEIs must ensure any steps they take following the Supreme Court judgement take into account trans people's heightened risk of sexual harassment and violence Please share.

Our statement in solidarity with the UK trans and non-binary community: 1752group.com/2025/05/02/s... A thread 🧵

We've just sent out our latest newsletter—a run down of all we've been up to this year so far in our work to end sexual misconduct in higher education. Not subscribed? Have a read: mailchi.mp/1752group/ne... And join the mailing list here! 1752group.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe

Important issue.

We support the @goodlawproject.bsky.social campaign, The LSE Must Stop Sexual Misconduct! It follows mishandling of a complaint about a professor, but the issue goes beyond this. Read Anna Bull's piece on sexual misconduct by staff in unis & the need for change, featured as part of the campaign.

📻 Recommended listening! This excellent new podcast episode by @mediastormpod.bsky.social for which our Dr Anna Bull was interviewed: open.spotify.com/episode/4w1Z... It explores how unis handle sexual misconduct cases when their professors are at the heart of the scandal...

Last month, we were guest speakers at a three day symposium, Holding Space: Taking Action, at Homerton College, Cambridge, which included academics, practitioners, professionals, creatives and students, exploring how to address harassment and create safe spaces in higher education and beyond.

NEW ARTICLE: Sexual harassment in academia: Victim-survivors speaking out This commentary piece by our Dr Adrija Dey, Erin Shannon and Joel Quirk is based on discussions between Quirk and Judith Levine in a webinar we hosted with FemIDEAS last year (watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mkg...).

Important news podcast about staff sexual misconduct in HE exploring how it leads to women leaving academia

NEW: Sexual harassment allegations linked to drop in citations Our Dr Anna Bull was interviewed for this Nature article on a new study which finds while frequency of citations is not affected by scientific fraud allegations, it is by allegations of sexual misconduct. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NEW RESEARCH 🧵 Anna Bull & Alex Bradley find that notable impacts of sexual misconduct on students include loss of personal and academic confidence, and loss of access to professional networks. Literature on academic networking doesn’t explore this, but clearly it matters… doi.org/10.1177/0886...

NEW RESEARCH! 🧵 The Role of "Watershed Cases" in the Implementation of Policies Against Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in English Higher Education Institutions This article comes out of Dr Anna Bull's ESRC-funded project Higher Education After #MeToo: 1752group.com/higher-educa... (1/6)

NEW RESEARCH! 🧵 In 2023, the edited collection Sexual Misconduct in Academia was published by Routledge-Taylor & Francis Group. Just a few months later it was withdrawn. The incident represents a wider crisis around academic freedom in publishing on gender-based violence and harassment...

See Anna Bull's blog post for the Good Law Project. Sexual misconduct strikes at the heart of university life. goodlawproject.org/sexual-misco...

It's heartbreaking to see yet another case of staff sexual misconduct mishandled by a UK university. @annabull.bsky.social from The 1752 Group has been talking to the Good Law Project about where we're at on this.

This is a great new podcast that really makes this issue come alive. (And yes it features our own @annabull.bsky.social )

“Serial perpetrators harm generation after generation of students and junior colleagues.” Too many professors are pursuing their students and causing untold harm, says @annabull.bsky.social of @the1752group.bsky.social: goodlaw.social/xsix

Please share widely. Unfortunately we all need to know more about defamation law these days.

TW sexual assault A director at Durham University is jailed for assaulting two women. We know that staff carrying out harassment or assault are likely to be targeting multiple people. This also shows that universities can't be complacent about who they're employing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's crucial in academic publishing to hear from those affected by sexual misconduct, as well as those analysing it. Dr Anna Bull from The 1752 Group will be speaking at launch of new book #MeToo in Academia 6pm to 8pm Mon 10 March, SOAS London and online: www.ticketsource.co.uk/centre-for-l...

A research seminar that will be very much worth attending: Addressing gender-based violence in academia Monday, 10 March 2025, 13h GMT – Online Professor Anne Laure Humbert from the University of Gothenburg Details and registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/addressing...

Yes, it's already Impact O'Clock in the UK... so please share details if you've ever used my sexual harassment research to make change in the world.

I'm a director and co-founder of The 1752 Group - please do give us a follow if you want updates about our campaigning and research on sexual misconduct in higher education

📢 YOUR HELP NEEDED! Have you ever used work by us or Dr Anna Bull on sexual misconduct in higher ed, in a non-academic capacity? If yes, please fill out our short survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You’d be really helping us measure our work's impact and plan future activity! 🧵

What can be done about the silencing of those who speak and write about sexual misconduct in higher education? Should higher ed institutions keep registers of perpetrators? These and more are discussed in our newest joint report with FemIDEAS, accessible here: 1752group.com/wp-content/u... 🧵

How do we shift responsibility for dealing with gender-based violence away from victims-survivors onto institutions in higher education? Our Dr Anna Bull discusses this important question in a talk for the ENOHE (from 15:15): www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FRq...

A great campaign group and research organisation committed to ending sexual misconduct in HE has joined Bluesky and you should follow them!

Hello to all our new followers! We would love if you could share our introduction post to help us get started on here.

If you work or study in higher education or are at all interested in gender-based violence I strongly recommend following the 1752 Group. They're doing amazing, deeply practical and grounded work around tackling sexual misconduct.

Hey everyone! The 1752 Group are on here now!! Please support this brilliant organisation and the work they do #ClassicsBsky #AncientBsky

Hi, we're new here! Here's a bit about us... We're a UK-based campaign and research organisation, made up of members of the academic community, dedicated to ending sexual misconduct in higher education.