The Office for Students requires us to highlight our approach to harassment and sexual misconduct. However, we support with all safeguarding concerns. The same process for reporting and support via Report and Support can be followed. We are also proud to be working towards the Emily Test charter mark to describe and assure our work in the wider area of Gender-Based Violence.

Our support covers any student with a relationship to the University of Manchester.  This covers students studying here with us in Manchester, distance learning students and any other student on a course provided in any manner or form.  We have written to our ‘partner institutions’ to explain our approach to supporting students with issues of harassment and sexual misconduct, and to provide a point of contact for them via Report and Support.  Our website and resources are publicly available, no matter where you are.  If you are a registered student, you will do our training and will be subject to and covered by our support, policies and procedures.  If you are a registered student and you have an experience of harassment or sexual misconduct which relates to an experience on placement or elsewhere, you can contact Report and Support and we will work out the best route of support and intervention for you.

You can find details of external organisations relevant to harassment and sexual misconduct at Report and Support on the tiles under the ‘Support’ title.

You can access independent support and advice from the Students Union Advice centre.

We never use non-disclosure agreements with students. We also consult with students, student groups and the Students’ Union. We collect and publish data on the prevalence and reporting of safeguarding issues including harassment and sexual misconduct (Report & Support Annual Report link) and we continually review our approach, in order to improve our support for students.

The University takes a Harm Reduction approach. As part of this we have a training module on harassment and consent specifically in the context of drugs and alcohol.

In addition, your school or doctoral academy may provide further harassment and/or sexual misconduct training.

All staff members are required to complete a series of online training courses designed to embed the University's values and foster a working environment aligned with those values. As part of this essential training staff complete a course on Sexual Harassment.

As well as the questions and answers built into the training, we measure effectiveness in a number of different ways, including: in-depth analysis of reporting data; discussions and focus groups with users; expert feedback on content; in-depth testing of learning at in-person training sessions.

We are currently working with a team of University of Manchester academics to develop a robust, scientific measurement of the impact of our training offer.

We have an annual communications plan for both students and staff. In addition all students receive information about the Advice and Response team and our single-source webpage within their student handbooks. A link to the single source webpage is also highlighted to prospective students in our University prospectus.

You can contact Report and Support and ask us.