Addressing violence against women in pre-service health training
IRWG affiliate Vijay Singh contributes to WHO Training Guide Dr. Vijay Singh’s 2017 IRWG Faculty Seed Grant was used to travel to, then deliver and evaluate a medical student training at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) School of Medical Sciences in Ghana in 2018. The training was on healthcare identification and response to ...
‘Mandatory Reporting Is Exactly Not What Victims Need’
In a recent essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Professor Elizabeth Armstrong (Sociology, Women’s & Gender Studies, IRWG), along with Kathryn Holland and Jennifer Freyd, highlight the damage that could be caused by new proposed Title IX regulations from the Department of Education. The new rules include mandatory reporting polices that “would force colleges ...
NIH to require grantees report instances of bullying, harassment, hostile working conditions
According to the Societies Consortium on Sexual Harassment in STEMM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced they are implementing new reporting requirements for grantees related to instances of harassment, bullying, retaliation, or creating hostile working conditions. When a principal investigator (PI) or other key personnel are removed from their position or otherwise disciplined, institutions must notify NIH. Previously, ...
What Real Cases Teach us about Human Trafficking
March 2021 When you think of human trafficking, what images come to mind? Last month, Professor Elizabeth Campbell spoke about misconceptions, research gaps, the various experiences and complex needs of survivors of trafficking, in a webinar sponsored by IRWG’s Initiative on Gender Based Violence and Sexual Harassment. Campbell is a clinical assistant professor and co-director ...
The Development of the MiStory International Trauma Recovery Research Consortium
The Multicultural Study of Trauma Recovery (MiStory) is an international research consortium working to understand how context, culture, the self, gender, and trauma recovery intersect. Directed by Professor Denise Saint Arnault with funding in part from IRWG seed grants, the collaborative currently has 30 members from 13 countries across several continents, and continues to grow. ...
How I Spent My Summer at IRWG
by Tuğçe Kayaal In summer 2020, I worked as a graduate student research assistant for IRWG’s multidisciplinary gender-based violence (GBV) and sexual harassment project. In my academic research, I explore various forms of gender-based violence in different historical settings with a focus on the Middle East. This assistantship was my first job in which I had ...
Updates from IRWG-Mcubed Research Incentive Grants
August 2020 Earlier this year, we awarded six Mcubed faculty teams over $48,000 in additional funding and support to incorporate gender or feminist perspectives into their existing research projects. While COVID-19 interrupted many of the projects, two projects were able to continue some of their work and reported back this summer. Anonymous Autonomous Did you know ...
Calling for a Radical Redesign of Antiharassment Efforts in Higher Ed
In an opinion piece published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Anna Kirkland, Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Lilia Cortina, Professor of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies, and Kathryn B.H. Clancy of the University of Illinois called on colleges ...
Sexual Harassment in the Academy – A Fall 2018 Panel Discussion Series
In 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine assembled a committee to conduct a study on the impact of sexual harassment in academia on the career advancement of women in the scientific, technical, and medical workforce. The committee published a comprehensive report titled, “Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic ...