In this episode, Diane Crocker (St Mary's University, Canada) and Marcus A. Sibley (Carleton University, Canada) join Ruth and Susan to explore how rape culture, as a concept, is used to mobilize efforts to reduce campus sexual violence in Canada, and how activists’ understanding of rape culture has limited our ability to change it. They help us understand that while rape culture is not simple, our responses often assume it is. This insight is informed by complexity theory. We begin wit...
In this episode, Diane Crocker (St Mary's University, Canada) and Marcus A. Sibley (Carleton University, Canada) join Ruth and Susan to explore how rape culture, as a concept, is used to mobilize efforts to reduce campus sexual violence in Canada, and how activists’ understanding of rape culture has limited our ability to change it. They help us understand that while rape culture is not simple, our responses often assume it is. This insight is informed by complexity theory. We begin wit...
Join us as we discuss this cross-institutional, multi-partner coalition initiated by student organisations in collaboration with security, service and academic staff in two Scottish universities. Along with local service providers and police, our guests critically discuss the tensions encountered and challenges posed in creating a ‘whole-university’ approach to preventing and responding to gender-based violence. In so doing, it highlights the centrality of student leadership for developing an...
In this episode, Catherine Donovan discusses a multi-institutional study conducted in England with colleagues Khatidja Chantler, Rachel Fenton, and Kelly Bracewell, exploring barriers and facilitators to implementing the recommendations of the UUK (2016) report on violence against women, harassment and hate crimes, particularly focusing on sexual violence and harassment. Interviews were conducted with twenty-five volunteers and here we focus on the six interviews conducted with academic...