Safeguarding the Student Experience

This ProtectED Reflections event is the first in a series of webinars on the theme 'Safeguarding the Student Experience'. These will explore what safeguarding the student experience really means for universities and HE professionals.

Student safety and wellbeing is a key driver for student recruitment and retention — especially for international students. However, media reports have highlighted problems with the processes employed by universities to deal with sexual misconduct complaints.

Such problems relate to complaints processes around both student on student incidents and staff on student incidents. With regard to the latter, research suggests that universities' response to staff sexual misconduct often involves HEIs “making it up as they go along”.

UK universities often lack specific procedures for addressing student complaints about staff sexual misconduct. It is clear that change is urgently needed to address this.

This ProtectED Reflections event will explore and discuss university policies, processes and practice in…