New Initiative Takes Aim at Sexual Misconduct During Scientific Fieldwork
A young — and growing — organization is trying to adapt sexual harassment trainings to the field. Does it work?
4 months agoA space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
A young — and growing — organization is trying to adapt sexual harassment trainings to the field. Does it work?
4 months agoThe #MeToo movement has slowly spread across to other sectors as people begin to come forward with their own stories of sexual harassment and bullying. In academic publishing, this conversation was in part started in February by Alison’s Mudditt’s powerful post on The Scholarly Kitchen. Muddit chaired a recent panel looking at sexual harassment, and ways to combat it, at the annual ALPSP conference.
4 years agoIncreasingly, says Robert Dingwall, UK universities are taking a more paternal role in the lives of their students, taking — or perhaps resuming — more active roles in addressing their charges’ mental health, criminal conduct and self-care.
5 years agoDeveloping an effective response to sexual harassment in the academic industry — by no means a new phenomenon, notes Robert Dingwall — requires us to consider questions about institutional memory, occupational cultures, and organizational silos, rather than badly behaved individuals.
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