New article: reflecting on carrying out surveys on gender-based violence in UK HE

A recent Women and Equalities select committee hearing on gender-based violence in universities involved a discussion of what evidence is available on this issue, and what the role of surveys should be in providing this evidence. Serendipitously, this was just after myself, Louise Livesey and Marian Duggan had published an article on this very topic, ‘Researching Students’ Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Harassment: Reflections and Recommendations from Surveys of Three UK HEIs’ in the journal Social Sciences, for a special issue edited by Vanita Sundaram and Pam Alldred on methods for researching gender-based violence. It reflects on our methods as well as the politics and governance of surveying gender-based violence in UK universities based on our experiences of carrying out such surveys within three different institutions.