Sexual harassment/assault at festivals

[HBows]

Hi everyone,

Some of you may have seen the various news stories about incidents of sexual harassment and assault at festivals (in the UK and beyond) this year and previous years. The issue seems to be gaining increasing interest and attention, particularly by the media, but some performers/bands and festival networks have also highlighted the problem over the last couple of years but there is currently no national data on the extent, nature or responses to sexual harassment. I am currently leading a British Academy funded project looking at this (my details are below) and would greatly appreciate your help

If you have worked or volunteered at any UK music festival in the last few years please complete our short survey (only 13 questions!) - https://durham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/sexual-harassment-and-violence-at-festivals-experience-o

If you have attended a festival and witnessed or experienced harassment or violence and are happy to speak anonymously about this please get in touch - we can arrange a short telephone or face-to-face interview (we have funds to cover travel and subsistence costs for you to come to Durham or somewhere else convenient) - Hannah.bows@durham.ac.uk

If you have any questions please do let us know. We have information sheets available. You can also follow us on Twitter @SafetyStudy and read more about our project on our website: https://safetystudydurham.wordpress.com

If you have suggestions on where we can share this please let us know and please feel free to share this with your friends and networks!

Many thanks,

Hannah Bows

Durham Law School

Durham University

**permission to post this was obtained from efestivals admin**

[tjamest]

Hi Hannah,

If Neil (admin) is ok with it you will probably get a lot more views and interaction if you post this  in the Glastonbury thread which gets alot more traffic.

[HBows]

Thanks for the tip! Will try posting there instead

[jump]

Someone else from Durham University had the same idea too;

 

[HBows]

@jump ah that is my colleague! I had no idea she had also posted on here - will get that taken down, thanks for letting me know!