Sexual Misconduct in Academia

Erin Pritchard is a senior lecturer in Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University and a core member of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies. She has published a monograph for the Routledge Disability Studies Interdisciplinary Series, entitled Dwarfism, Spatialities and Disabling Experiences. She has previously published an article entitled ‘Female researcher safety: the difficulties of recruiting participants at conventions for people with dwarfism’ published in the International Journal of Social Research Methods. She is also a guest writer for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Delyth Edwards is a lecturer in Inclusion, Childhood and Youth in the School of Education, University of Leeds, and was previously a lecturer in the Sociology of Childhood and Youth at Liverpool Hope University. As well as contributing a chapter to this edited book, Delyth is currently revising an article exploring her own experience of sexual harassment in ethnographic research.

Foreword; Introduction; Part I: The intersectionality of identities and recognition; 1: Casualties of colonialism: Indigenous women, systemic violence, and precarity; 2: Sexual misconduct through inequality and precarity; 3: Uncovering gender disparity and sexual misconduct: A quest towards inviting (trans-multi)culturally responsive education; 4: Whose power? Uncovering non-paradigm experiences of violence and abuse in feminist fieldwork; ; Part II: Fieldwork identities and pedagogy; 5: Predicaments of power: Trust-based sexualized violence in ethnographic fieldwork; 6: The unspoken experiences of ethnography: Overcoming boundaries of (un)accepted behaviours; 7: "No, you’re not doing your research today. This is us spending some nice time together": Coercive behaviour, sexual harassment and being ‘working class’ in the ‘field’; 8: Unveiling sexual harassment in Spanish archaeology; Part III: Disclosure, complaint and recognition; 9: Sexual misconduct in academic liminal spaces: Autoethnographic reflections on complaint and institutional response; 10: Sexual violence: Challenges in changing campus culture; Part IV: First responders and institutional support; 11: Developing Ethical Pedagogical Practices: Exploring violence prevention work with academics; 12: The walls spoke when no one else would: Autoethnographic notes on sexual-power gatekeeping within avant-garde academia; Afterword