Citation

Page T, Bull A, Chapman E. Violence Against Women 2019; 25(11): 1309-1330.

Affiliation

Imperial College London, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801219844606

PMID

31379297

Abstract

This article examines activism to address staff-to-student sexual misconduct in higher education in the United Kingdom from our perspective as founders and members of the research and lobby organization The 1752 Group. We argue that in order to tackle staff sexual misconduct in higher education, the problem has first to be made visible. We theorize this as "slow activism" and outline the activities that we and others have been engaged in toward this end: conducting research, using complaints processes within institutions, naming the experiences of staff sexual misconduct and/or institutions and perpetrators, and carrying out discipline-led and sector-level initiatives.

Language: en

Keywords

gender-based violence; higher education; sexual misconduct; slow activism