 | Dr Anke Lipinsky, senior researcher at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Team CEWS. She is PI of the quantitative survey of UniSAFE and a member of the international network on women in higher education management WHEM. Her research focuses on gender inequalities in academia, policy evaluation and research methods, and gender-based violence, including sexual harassment. She collaborated in multiple EU-funded projects, e.g., INSPIRE, UniSAFE, GEECCO, GenPORT, and INTEGER. Dr. Lipinsky served in several European Commission expert groups, including the Gendered Innovations group. |
Talk description
The EU-funded research project “Gender-based violence and institutional responses” (UniSAFE) implemented a multi-level and multi-site research design in the years 2021-2024. A large-scale web survey formed a key part of the research and gathered data from 46 higher education and research organisations in 15 countries in Europe. Complementary to the quantitative study, the research team conducted 54 semi-structured interviews with staff who experienced gender-based violence at work. In her presentation, Anke Lipinsky will present key findings from the UniSAFE research, including conceptual novelties that helped to advance knowledge in this field. Findings show that about two in three people in higher education and research experience gender-based violence during their affiliation. One in three people experience sexual harassment. This holds true for both staff and students. Compared to men, women and nonbinary people show more - and more recurring - experiences of violence. Different forms of violence overlap and occur jointly. While 23% of victimised staff report an incident, only 7% of victimised students do report. The most frequent reason for not reporting incidents lies in the uncertainty about whether the aggression was serious enough. Victimised people report failures of existing policies in higher education, which adds to the already far-reaching impacts on well-being, study, and career progress.
The project “Gender-based violence and institutional responses” (UniSAFE) has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 under grant agreement No 101006261.
The talk will be a hybrid event and the Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants via email in advance.
