About this project
An international collaboration with the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria to examine the pathways which enable Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) to systemically distort participation within the Higher Education sector.
This will focus on how experiencing SEA impacts on the educational experience on campus, how people who have experienced SEA may be supported and protected to continue in education, the reporting systems for ensuring SEA is completely eradicated, and developing mechanisms to support female decision-makers within Senior management who can influence policy.
The project will conduct primary research with participants in Nigeria and use these findings alongside relevant literature to develop recommendations for Nigerian Higher Education policy.
Findings from interventions will also be used to extrapolate relevant understanding of the impact of SEA on access and engagement with Higher Education in the UK; using relevant learnings from the UK literature and ongoing parliamentary discussions, these findings will be used to make culturally specific suggestions for the commonalities and differences with UK HE, and to develop an ongoing workstream across the project partners to deploy additional interventions in the UK.
Project activity
The project will have four work strands:
- Conduct a rapid Survey and mapping analysis to examine how SEA and sexual misconduct are identified and monitored in HE and through the student life cycle and staff reporting systems in Nigeria and the UK.
- Develop and deliver interventions to influence policies to promote gender equality
- Develop appropriate digital tools for raising awareness and reporting SEA.