{"id":945,"date":"2024-04-28T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T11:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/?p=945"},"modified":"2024-04-28T15:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T14:38:52","slug":"the-21-group-launches-its-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"The 21 Group Launches its Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is a need for more statistics on bullying, discrimination, harassment & victimisation in academia. Existing surveys are either restricted to certain subject areas (eg astronomy & geophysics<\/a>) and\/or curiously unavailable (eg EPSRC’s Report on “Understanding the status of underrepresented groups in the Information and Communication Technologies<\/em>” which examined computer science and engineering). The Union and College Union (UCU) carried out a valuable survey<\/a> in 2012. It is the largest to date and showed a distressing picture of widespread abusive behaviour and workplace bullying in Universities. However, it is now over a decade old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data on bullying & harassment are not difficult to gather, if the will is there. The universities themselves will benefit from such data in developing policies to deal with these matters. The 21 Group is interested in working with Universities in understanding & tackling these persistent problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the 21 Group is writing to all UK universities requesting answers to the following questions under the Freedom of Information Act (2000). The data are clearly in the public interest. We look forward to cooperation with universities in tackling this scourge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1 How many reports of bullying, discrimination, harassment or victimisation were communicated to university HR between January 1 2019 and January 1 2024?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 How many of these reported incidents were resolved at the informal or mediation stage? How many of these are currently unresolved? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 How many of these reported incidents proceeded to formal investigation? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 How many of the incidents which proceeded to formal investigation were i) upheld or substantiated; ii) partially upheld or substantiated; iii) ruled unsubstantiated?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 How many complaints were unresolved because the complainant or perpetrator had left the institution?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 For grievances in the formal stage, how many investigations were  conducted by external organisations or lawyers\/barristers on behalf of the university?<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 For cases under points (1) and (3), respectively, what is the average duration of time from a) the point of initial reporting to b) final case resolution? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 How many non-disclosure agreements in relation to reports of bullying, discrimination, harassment or victimisation did the university sign in the period from January 1 2019 to January 1 2024?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 What is the sum of the settlement money that has been paid in relation to the non-disclosure agreements in point (8)?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 What is the annual legal cost incurred in responding to complaints of bullying, discrimination, harassment or victimisation during the period from January 1 2019 to January 1 2024?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is a need for more statistics on bullying, discrimination, harassment & victimisation in academia. Existing surveys are either restricted to certain subject areas (eg astronomy & geophysics) and\/or curiously unavailable (eg EPSRC’s Report on “Understanding the status of underrepresented groups in the Information and Communication Technologies” which examined computer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}