Article collection on the reported sexual misconduct, power abuse and retaliation towards female students and junior staff by former Oxford psychology professor Miles Hewstone substack.com/home/post/p-...

La ley del silencio se impone en Oxford ante las numerosas denuncias de acoso y agresiones sexuales: “Soy un chico malo”, dijo un profesor tras bajarse los pantalones

This is why there needs to be greater public transparency about the outcome of sexual harassment cases: "When Miles Hewstone stepped down in 2019 and it was not possible to receive official information, we confronted him, but he completely denied any misconduct."

We stand in solidarity with the survivors of this abuse and fight for the power structures to change. @icrn-research.bsky.social Thank you for this statement contactresearch.substack.com/p/icrn-respo...

As an undergraduate placement student, when I was working at Oxford, I was (gently) discouraged from working with Miles Hewstone. Back then, I didn't fully know why, but I'm grateful for the solidarity expressed from those more aware of his harassment. Whisper networks in academia are invaluable.

Sexual harassment in academia and systemic failure to act. Calling out Miles Hewstone's sexual misconduct at Oxford: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

My wife was sexually harassed by Miles Hewstone as a phd student. He was still asked to review her (and other women he harassed) for jobs and promotions. This is so fucked up. Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:

I can’t imagine what it was like to be a victim of Hewstone, but I recognise how important this article is for the women he harassed. At the same time, I’m shaken that our community stayed silent for so long. I have deep respect for the women who exposed his wrongdoing.

Great news: finally Miles Hewstone is exposed. I stopped citing him years ago, I warned friends/colleagues when I saw them publishing together, I informed as many people as possible about him. We all did. Had this piece been published 15 years ago, everyone would have already known. Shame on Oxford.

Grim reading as someone who was taken in by Hewstone’s “charming public persona”.

Miles Hewstone - once a respected and influential social psychologist (and editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology). www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I know several of the women who were harassed by this guy. They had real courage to testify. He engaged in serious professional retaliation against women. This needs to end. I've seen how many people curry favor with known sexual harassers and how the worst can still manage to leap from job to job.

One of the giants of social psychology was a serial sexual harasser. This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.

Completely agree Nils; and also extend my thanks to Katherine Griffiths who did such important and careful journalistic work on this issue.

I can only agree with Nils, I'm gratefull for this article, foremost to everyone who agreed to be interviewed for it. It is more than time that this information is available publicly.

#AcademicSky Women deserve to study and work in safe places. Period. Let's hope that men in academia start doing more to make this a reality, structurally It's not enough to refrain from personally harassing; we need to change the norms Be an anti-harasser, visibly, not simply a non-harasser

There is so much to be disappointed about in this story--from the institutional response to Miles Hewstone himself. We still have a lot of work to do to make academic environments inclusive spaces where everyone can thrive, and where harassers are held accountable.

I am so grateful to Katherine Griffiths for finally exposing all of this after years of willful cover-up and institutional failure. I know many of us have not been quiet on this in private but it is so important for this to be on the public record.

Michèle Birtel (vom InMind Team!) berichtet heute, wie wichtig es ist, politische Spaltung in der Bevölkerung effektiv zu reduzieren, am Beispiel einer Intervention in Großbritannien post-Brexit, bei der sich die Schwierigkeit dieses Unterfangens zeigt. de.in-mind.org/blog/...

Einsam sind wir alle manchmal, aber was unterscheidet vorübergehende Einsamkeit von chronischer? Prof. Michele Birtel fasst für euch zusammen und erklärt worauf es ankommt, wenn man den Teufelskreis chronischer Einsamkeit durchbrechen will. de.in-mind.org/blog/...

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