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Bystander Intervention
The UCC Bystander Intervention prgramme has been shortlisted for the Outstanding Support for Students Award in the prestigious 2022 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards. Billed as ‘the Oscars of Higher Education,’ the THE Awards considered over 550 entries from Higher Education Institutes across the UK and Ireland and shortlisted the best across twenty categories.
Led by Professor Louise Crowley, the Bystander Intervention programme at UCC seeks to effect cultural change through educating and empowering students to collectively demanding a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of sexual harassment and abuse. This actively enables the development of a visible institutional culture of respect, positivity and support. Impact data from 2020/2021 demonstrates a significant and meaningful enhancement of participants’ understanding of what constitutes sexual harassment and violence, a realisation of their capacity to make a difference, and the significant enhancement of their own ability to make effective interventions.
The shortlisting of the Bystander Intervention programme by the Times Higher Education adjudication panel is a recognition at the highest level of the programme’s critical impact on the student experience at UCC and the university’s commitment to pro-actively cultivating a culture of respect and support for all students. Professor Crowley will represent UCC at the awards ceremony in London in November.