GW4: Investigating GBV Intersectional (Dis)Advantages and Legal Duties - A Scoping Study of UK Universities

In Changing the Culture (2016), Universities UK called for universities to take action to prevent and combat Gender Based Violence (GBV), including some legal guidance for investigations. This inter-disciplinary GW4 funded project will design a robust and sophisticated ecological theoretical framework that will incorporate policies, sanctions, redress and duties of care to guide investigating the extent, characteristics, and impacts of GBV within UK universities. This in turn will help to develop a strategic evidence based response to Gender Based Violence from the Macro level of law, through to the Meso level of institutional responses, the micro level of peer groups and the ontogenetic level of individuals.

This project helps us better understand why sexual violence happens at UK universities and how best to address it.