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(Figure from RAS Report on Bullying and Harassment authored by Sheila Kanani, \u00c1ine O\u2019Brien, Robert Massey, Natasha Stephen and Emma Bunce)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nIf all this is not depressing enough, them the statistics on dealing with bullying and harassment are dire. Only 40% of bullying and harassment episodes are ever reported. And of those that are reported, 25 % are ignored and 40 % are handled in an unsatisfactory manner, leaving the respondents dissatisfied. This suggests a pattern of Universities turning a blind eye to bullying, repeatedly failing to take matters seriously or investigate properly. If you are bullied in astronomy, your chances of successful redress are tiny, only 14 %. The bullies almost always get away with it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Royal Astronomical Society deserves enormous credit for carrying out and publishing this survey. Bullying and harassment are not pleasant subjects and it is all too easy for professional bodies to ignore uncomfortable matters. Where, for example, are the equivalent surveys for UK physics or chemistry or medicine or engineering? Astronomy and geophysics are not unusual. Patterns of unacceptably high levels of bullying are the case throughout STEM subjects in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the beginning, we asked why have there been no reported bullying scandals in UK astronomy, despite a series of high profile incidents & dismissals in Europe and the US. This is all the more glaring now we know that the prevalence of bullying is so high in UK astronomy. We will return to this contradiction in our next blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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