GENDER BASED VIOLENCE IN UNIVERSITY COMMUNITIES
Policy, prevention and educational initiatives
Edited by Sundari Anitha and Ruth Lewis
First published in Great Britain in 2018 by
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Remembering Kate Cavanagh, from whom I learned so much (Ruth Lewis)
For Jamaal, Nafisa and Charlie, with hope for the changes to come (Sundari Anitha)
Contents
| Sundari Anitha and Ruth Lewis |
| Vanita Sundaram |
| Alison Phipps |
| Renate Klein |
| Andrea Durbach and Rosemary Grey |
| Anni Donaldson, Melanie McCarry and Aimee McCullough |
| Ruth Lewis and Susan Marine |
| Louise Whitfield |
| Rachel A. Fenton and Helen L. Mott |
| Ana Jordan, Sundari Anitha, Jill Jameson and Zowie Davy |
| Ellie Hutchinson |
| Ruth Lewis and Sundari Anitha |
Notes on contributors
Sundari Anitha is a Reader in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln. She has researched and published widely in her two areas of research interest gender based violence, and gender and work. Her recent work has examined marriage migrants' experiences of domestic violence, forced marriage, transnational marriage abandonment, sex-selective abortion, dowry-related violence, gender based violence in university communities, and the position and struggles of South Asian women workers in the UK labour market. She has previously managed a Women's Aid refuge and is a trustee of Asha Projects, a specialist refuge for South Asian survivors of domestic violence and of ATLEU (Anti-Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit), which provides legal representation to victims of trafficking and labour exploitation.
Zowie Davy is a Senior Lecturer in LGBTQ Research at the Centre for LGBTQ Research, De Montfort University. Zowie's work centres on medicolegal constructions of gender and sexuality in healthcare. Her current research spans (trans)gender studies including critical approaches to gender dysphoria, a project on parents' experiences of school cultures while supporting their trans children, and LGBT sex work migration and health. Zowie has published a number of books and articles about transgender embodiment and her book Recognizing Transsexuals won the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize in 2012. Zowie is on the board of directors of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality Culture and Society, the Vice Chair of the European Sociological Association's Sexuality Research Network and a scientific advisor for the European Professional Association for Transgender Health.
Anni Donaldson is currently Knowledge Exchange Fellow/Project Lead for Equally Safe in Higher Education (ESHE) at the University of Strathclyde. ESHE is implementing a Gender Based Violence Strategy at the University. Anni was a Violence against Women (VAW) Lead Officer, VAW Partnership Coordinator and Service Manager in Scottish local government for 20 years. Anni is also a historian and is currently writing an oral history of domestic abuse in Scotland 197992, a VAW activist, writer and award winning journalist.
Andrea Durbach is Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney. She was Director of UNSW's Australian Human Rights Centre (AHRCentre) from 200417. She has held senior positions in the human rights field, including as Deputy Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner and as a consultant to the Australian Defence Abuse Response Taskforce to develop a framework to address the needs of Defence Force victims of gender based violence. Andrea has published widely on a range of human rights issues, including gender justice, and is currently co-investigator on an Australian Research Council grant examining reparations for victims of sexual violence post-conflict. Between 2015 and 2017, Andrea led the AHRCentre's major research project, Strengthening Australian University Responses to Sexual Assault and Harassment.
Rachel Fenton is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter. She has published widely about gender and the law, in particular regarding sexual offences and the legal regulation of assisted reproduction and is co-editor of Gender, Sexualities and Law (Routledge, 2011). Recently, as the project lead for Public Health England, her work has focused on establishing the evidence base for bystander intervention for the prevention of sexual and domestic violence in university settings and the development and evaluation (with Helen Mott) of the first evidence-based bystander programme The Intervention Initiative for English universities.
Rosemary Grey is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Melbourne Law School, where she teaches the International Criminal Justice Clinic in partnership with Amnesty International. From 2015 to 2016, she was the inaugural research director on the Strengthening Australian University Responses to Sexual Assault and Harassment project. Since then, Rosemary has continued to research on gender issues in law, particularly on the prosecution of gender based crimes under international law. Her PhD, completed at the University of New South Wales in 2015, considered the prosecution of these crimes in the International Criminal Court. Her monograph on gender based crimes and the ICC will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2018.
Ellie Hutchinson is the Director of the Empower Project, a feminist, intersectional membership organisation working to challenge online and technology-based abuse against women and girls. Previously she was Prevention Policy Worker at Scottish Women's Aid, where she led Get Savi over a period of four years. She holds an MSc in International Relations and European Politics from the University of Edinburgh and is passionate about children's rights, participation, feminism and change.
