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GenderSAFE Webinar: Professional boundaries and sexual harassment in academic settings

The term ‘professional boundaries’ denotes appropriate standards of behaviour by professionals in working with adult clients, patients or students (Cooper, 2012). However, in higher education, shared understandings of appropriate boundaries are often lacking. At the same time, power imbalances between staff and early career researchers (PhDs, postdoctoral researchers) create a context where sexual harassment and other abuses of power are more likely to occur; around 10% of women postgraduate students are targeted for sexual harassment during their studies (Cantor et al, 2019; Australian Human Rights Commission, 2017). In this webinar, Dr Anna Bull will introduce key points relating to professional boundaries in academic settings, followed by the discussion of an anonymised case study, used with permission, of boundary-blurring behaviours. This will be followed by a conversation in plenary and a Q&A session. The case study, along with details of how we will hold a safer space, will be shared a few days in advance of the session.