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Asking and Telling about Sexual Violence in Sexual Health Services

“It was fear that stopped me…. fear and I think, a deep kind of shock. I didn’t want this to have happened to me. I didn’t want to...

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Sexual Health is about civil/ reproductive rights, health inequalities and criminal justice.

This blog is about a new research group, the Sexual Health and Well Being Interest Group #SHWIG @SHWIG We are a group of researchers...

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Sexual Harassment where we work.

#MeToo has left a wide range of employers scrambling to respond to allegations of sexual harassment and a new Code of Practice from the...

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An education in sexual violence: Universities and sexual bullying.

Higher education may well present the perfect storm of factors that can drive sexual harassment and other sexual violence. In the UK in...

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Place, poverty and the role of sexual violence - power in short supply

Geography and place can dictate how much sexual bullying there is. We know that poorer areas have much higher rates of ill health and...

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Most sexual violence is hidden and most victim/survivors remain silent.

The World Health Organisation estimates that 1 in 3 women experience physical/sexual violence during their lifetimes but these rates vary...

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Preventing Sexual Harassment and Abuse at the University of the West of England.

How are we taking a ‘whole university’ approach to sexual violence and abuse at UWE through prevention, support, and intervention. We...

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Can we prevent rather than punish Sexual Violence?

When we take a 'public health' approach to the evidence about the link between porn and sexual violence, we find a large evidence base...

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Pornography – harmless fantasy or fuel for sexual violence?

The Children’s Commissioner for England rapid evidence assessment was starkly entitled - ‘Basically..porn is everywhere’. We know that...

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Locating sexual harassment : fault lines, hotspots and ambiguous spaces

Women reporting their experiences of #MeToo show us that sexual harassment does not happened in one place. The problem with focusing on...

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#MeToo is everywhere - the prevalence of sexual harassment/bullying

We should aim for a society that allows young people to choose a life, not constrained by artificial gender stereotypes and free from...