'Grade for Sex?' How Does Staff-Student Sexual Violence in UK Higher Education Institutions Threaten the Security of Women Students?

“性别成绩？”

• 批准号: 2071198
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2071198
• 关键词: Grade; Sex; How; Does; Staff

OverviewWhile there exists extensive analysis of student-student sexual violence across Higher Education (HE), there has been little investigation into staff-student abuse. The Guardian (2017) highlights that in the last 4 years 169 cases of staff-student sexual abuse have been reported at UK universities. The actual figure is likely significantly higher. In the vast majority of cases, the alleged perpetrators have been male academic staff, the victims female students (Westmarland, 2017).Many argue that mainstream security discourse marginalises questions of gender and gendered violence; this can be explored as an extension of public-private divisions that categorise gendered violence as 'private', shifting it out of the public sphere of international security, into the private sphere of domestic politics. Similarly, within national politics, gendered violence is constructed as a private issue that is irrelevant to discourses of national security (Tickner, 1997, 2005; Blanchard, 2003).Relatedly, university structures construct staff-student sexual violence as a private issue, eschewing their responsibility to provide security for students from gendered violence. At the international, national and institutional level, analytical moves are employed to remove questions of gender from the agenda. The practices of gendered violence are removed from interrogation, both rendering gendered violence invisible within mainstream discourses on security, and normalising it.The UK 1752 group has been set up as a task-force against sexual misconduct at universities, working alongside the NUS to push this 'private' issue into political agenda. My research explores the relationship between those institutions that construct issues of gendered violence as private, and feminist activists who politicise their everyday experiences of gendered insecurity.Research ContributionSecurity StudiesThis will be the first attempt at exploring staff-student sexual violence at UK universities as an everyday threat to women's security, providing a radical revisioning of the relevance of the everyday to security. Critical security scholarship has not yet broadened to interrogate gendered violence that falls outside of established themes in security. My research will therefore move beyond the current thematic schema of security, locating sexual violence at UK HE Institutions as a threat to the security of women in and of itself.Feminist ActivismThe research will show how feminist activist groups respond to gendered violence at UK universities, including how they navigate university policy and investigatory procedures. This will allow the research to move beyond an account of women as only victims of staff-student abuse, but women as actors in the struggle for their own security (McLeod, 2010).Higher Education InstitutionsUniversities in the UK have made recent efforts to tackle gender inequality and violence at universities. However, the prevalence of staff-student sexual violence shows universities have not yet succeeded in combating gendered inequalities. This research will provide critical insight into ways that universities fail to meet their institutional responsibilities to redress gendered inequalities and provide security to their students. The research will also provide recommendations for alternative university policy, and therefore will simultaneously offer a framework for change.Research Design and MethodologyA discourse analysis of university policy at 10 UK HE institutions, including staff-student relationship policies, as well as complaints and investigatory procedures. This will be corroborated with research and data from the NUS and 1752 group on the experience of victims who have navigated these policies. To explore the ways in which feminist activist groups practice resistance, I will conduct ethnographic research with feminist activist groups.

概述虽然存在着广泛的分析，学生的性暴力在整个高等教育（HE），一直很少有调查工作人员对学生的虐待。《卫报》（2017年）强调，在过去4年中，英国大学报告了169起师生性虐待案件。实际数字可能要高得多。在绝大多数案件中，被指控的肇事者是男性学术人员，受害者是女性学生（Westmarland，2017）.许多人认为，主流安全话语边缘化的性别和性别暴力的问题;这可以作为公私部门划分的延伸加以探讨，公私部门将性别暴力归类为“私人”暴力，将其移出国际安全的公共领域，进入国内政治的私人领域同样，在国家政治中，性别暴力被构建为与国家安全话语无关的私人问题（Tickner，1997，2005; Blanchard，2003）。在国际、国家和机构一级，采取了分析行动，将性别问题从议程中删除。性别暴力的做法从审讯中删除，既使性别暴力在主流安全话语中隐形，又使其正常化。英国1752小组已成立，作为反对大学性行为不端的特别工作组，与NUS合作，将这一“私人”问题推向政治议程。我的研究探讨了这些机构之间的关系，建设作为私人的性别暴力的问题，和女权主义活动家谁政治化他们的日常经验的性别不安全。研究ContributionSecurity jealesThis将是第一次尝试在英国大学探索工作人员-学生的性暴力作为日常威胁妇女的安全，提供了一个激进的修订日常安全的相关性。关键的安全学术研究尚未扩大到审问性别暴力，福尔斯落在安全的既定主题之外。因此，我的研究将超越目前的安全专题模式，定位在英国高等教育机构的性暴力作为对妇女的安全和本身的威胁。女权主义ActivismThe研究将显示女权主义活动家团体如何应对性别暴力在英国大学，包括他们如何浏览大学政策和解释程序。这将使研究超越将妇女仅仅视为师生虐待的受害者，而是将妇女视为争取自身安全的行动者（McLeod，2010年）。然而，师生性暴力的普遍存在表明，大学尚未成功地打击性别不平等。这项研究将提供关键的洞察力，大学未能履行其机构责任，纠正性别不平等和提供安全的学生。这项研究还将提供替代大学政策的建议，因此将同时提供一个框架的changes.Research设计和MethodologyA话语分析大学政策在10个英国高等教育机构，包括工作人员与学生的关系政策，以及投诉和澄清程序。这将得到新加坡国立大学和1752小组关于受害者经历的研究和数据的证实。为了探索女权主义活动团体进行抵抗的方式，我将与女权主义活动团体进行民族志研究。