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The first parliamentary inquiry report into sexual harassment and sexual violence in schools was launched in late 2016 by the Women and Equalities Committee. It included more than 70 submissions with a suite of 12 recommendations. Fast forward 5 years (post #metoo) and Sara Soma’s Everyone’s Invited (2021) social movement gathers over 50,000 testimonies, rousing further governmental responses and inquiries (this time by Ofsted 2020 and Estyn 2021).
With a growing number of children and young people speaking out, or being supported to speak out about their experience, this event asks some searching questions
Join us to engage with these questions and more at our annual Sexualities and Gender SIG online webinar this December. We bring together a wide range of feminist and queer scholar-activists in the field of critical gender and sexuality education studies, whose research and engagement in primary, secondary and special schools is interacting directly with policy and practice.
| 13:00 | Welcome and Introduction EJ Renold & Josh Heyes SIG Convenors |
| 13:15 |
#Metoo in British Schools: Young people’s changing understandings of sexual harassment at secondary school |
| 13:30 | Gender norms, lad culture, and sexual harassment in schools: exploring the links from school to higher education Vanita Sundaram, York University & Carolyn Jackson, Lancaster University |
| 13:45 | ‘Causing a stir’? School uniform and harassment in intersectional and new materialist perspective Sara Bragg , University College London |
| 14:00 | GenTOPIA: Designing a digital game resource for 14-16 year olds to tackle gender-based and sexual abuse online Debbie Ging, University of Limerick |
| 14:15 | Q&A |
| 14:40 | Comfort Break |
| 14:55 | The Kisstory Project: making consent matter in primary schools with an arts-activist praxis EJ Renold, Cardiff University; Tuija Huuki, University of Oulu and Vicky Timperley, Cardiff University |
| 15:10 |
Trans and Gender Diverse Children’s Experiences of Life in Primary Schools in Ireland |
| 15:25 | Insights into entanglements with LGBTQ+ and neuro-diversity through creative methods with young people Gabrielle Ivinson, Manchester Metropolitan University |
| 15:40 | ‘It’s Not OK’: Preventing sexism and sexual harassment in schools’ campaign toolkit Lucy Russell, National Education Union |
| 15:55 | Q&A |
| 16:20 | Comfort Break |
| 16:35 | Policy and Practice Challenges in Addressing Sexual harassment in schools: panel discussion and networking |
| 17:00 | Close of meeting |
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Professor of Childhood Studies at Cardiff University
EJ Renold is a professor of Childhood Studies at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. They are the author of Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities (2005), Children, Sexuality and Sexualisation (with Ringrose and Egan, 2015) and the...
University of Lincoln
Before coming to the world of educational research, I completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Nottingham, during which I worked on sexual ethics and philosophy of religion. I then took up an exciting opportunity to...
Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University
Tanya Horeck is Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University. She is the author of Public Rape: Representing Violation in Fiction and Film and Justice on Demand: True Crime in the Digital Streaming Era. Her current...
Senior Lecturer in Education at University of York
Vanita Sundaram is Professor of Education at the University of York. Her research broadly covers gender and education, focusing more specifically on gender-based violence and teenagers; tackling everyday sexism, harassment and abuse in education...
Professor of Gender and Education at Lancaster University
My research explores aspects of gender and education. Questions I investigate include: how do learner and gender identities intersect? What motives ‘laddish’ behaviours? What are the advantages and disadvantages of single-sex and...
Lecturer Sociology of Education IOE UCL's Faculty of Education and Society at Institute of Education
Sara Bragg is a lecturer in Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society and Programme Leader for the MA Social Justice and Education. Her research interests are in the areas of relationships and...
Associate Professor of Digital Media and Gender at Dublin City University
Dr. Debbie Ging is Associate Professor of Digital Media and Gender in the School of Communications. She teaches and researches on gender, sexuality and digital media, with a focus on digital hate, online anti-feminist men’s rights politics and...
Professor of Childhood Studies at Cardiff University
EJ Renold is a professor of Childhood Studies at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. They are the author of Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities (2005), Children, Sexuality and Sexualisation (with Ringrose and Egan, 2015) and the...
Research Fellow / Adjunct Professor at University of Oulu
Tuija Huuki is academy research fellow and Adjunct professor of Educational gender research at the University of Turku. She is the leader of the research team Gender, power and interaction in education in the Faculty of Education. Applying...
Lecturer in Sociology of Education at University of Limerick, Ireland
Aoife Neary (BSc, MA, PhD) is Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education at the School of Education, University of Limerick, Ireland. Drawing on feminist, queer and affect theory, her research explores the politics of gender and sexuality in...
Professor of Education and Community at Manchester Metropolitan University
Gabrielle Ivinson’s primary research involves developing creative methodologies to engage communities and vulnerable young people and children living in post industrial areas (rural and urban) in times of austerity politics. Gabrielle is...
Gender Specialist at National Education Union
Lucy Russell is a freelance consultant currently working as the Gender Specialist for the National Education Union, the largest education union in Europe. She is the creator of the It’s Not OK: Preventing Sexism and Sexual Harassment Toolkit...
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