Harassment Archives – The Oxford Student

Transphobic tweets linked to Oxford sociology professor

26th October 201828th October 2018James Ashworth and Charlie Willis

Image Credit: Tom Gould. Description: St Cross College. Please note that this article contains explicit discussion of transphobic statements and images. Professor of Sociology and Fellow of St Cross College Michael Biggs has been posting transphobic statements online under the Twitter handle @MrHenryWimbush, The Oxford Student can reveal. The Twitter account, named Henry Wimbush and […]

Oxford revealed to have the highest number of complaints of bullying against academics

1st October 2018Grace Davis

Image Credit: Kaihsu (CC BY-SA 3.0) A recent investigation by The Guardian has revealed that accusations of bullying has been made towards hundreds of academics at top universities across the UK over the last 5 years. The paper sent freedom of information requests to different universities, revealing 294 complaints at 55 universities. Across 105 of […]

Why YouTube must act to tackle ‘undesirable’ content

10th February 2018Cherelle Malongo

The start of 2018 was greeted by a scandal that quickly received international condemnation. Logan Paul, a former vine star turned YouTuber, had uploaded a video as part of his Japan tour exploring the infamous Aokigahara ‘suicide’ forest, in which he stumbles upon a recently deceased individual. Filming at close proximity to the corpse, he […]

‘Sexminster’ proves that Parliament remains a toxic environment

17th November 2017Nicholas Linfoot

It isn’t often I agree with Laura Pidcock, the outspoken Labour MP for North West Durham, but in the midst of the Westminster sex scandal(s) I am inclined to review the words of her maiden speech. In this rather blunt polemic she noted of Parliament: “This building is intimidating, it reeks of the establishment, and […]

High levels of harassment at Univ

6th March 2014Amelia Hamer

University College has revealed that there were five instances of sex-related harassment in the last academic year. Of these allegations, three were made against staff, whilst two were made against students. One staff member left the College’s employment as a result of the complaint. Whilst the majority of allegations were made by students, one was […]