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Tackling online harassment and promoting online welfare

2 September 2019

Equality, diversity and inclusion

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UUK, working together with the University of Bedfordshire, has developed Changing the Culture: Tackling online harassment and promoting online welfare as an extension of UUK's work to help universities tackle harassment, hate crime and gender-based violence. This guidance outlines a set of principles to support universities to prevent and respond to online harassment occurring between students.

Accompanying this guidance:

case studies of what universities are already doing to address online harassment
literature review, for a more detailed exploration of research into online harassment
useful resources for reporting incidents and supporting people affected by harassment

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