Register at: https://abw.swansea.ac.uk/BusinessWorld/
This event is part of the REIS Seminar Programme series
SpeakerDr Anna Seager
Speaker's BiographyDr Anna Seager is the newly appointed research culture manager at Swansea University. Anna has over 17 years of experience of working within a research environment. Throughout her career Anna has been passionate about equality, diversity, and inclusivity (EDI) and culture work, which is reflected in her ongoing roles across the University within the research and innovation community, Athena SWAN, and by her attainment of the Mary Williams Award, 2019, for her contribution to EDI. Anna is committed to building a welcoming and empowering research culture at Swansea University that recognises everyone’s varied contributions to research.
From: 8 Dec 2022, 10 a.m.This workshop will focus on active bystanders in Higher Education (HE). Recognising disrespectful or bullying or harassment behaviours in the HE environment.
This session will provide attendees with the confidence to take action in the HE workplace towards any bullying and harassment situations, wherever that behaviour may lay on the spectrum of disrespect. From favouritism, difficult conversations, through to sharing humiliation to more escalated situations.
The workshop will deliver appropriate active bystander interventions (4Ds), such that you will come away armed with an active bystander’s toolkit. The workshop will look at types of bullying and harassment, some examples of behaviors, common reasons for inaction, the 4Ds of active bystander intervention, which is proven methodology that can help, as well as touching upon policy and practice, the impact of bullying/ harassment at work, and wellbeing in the HE workplace.
Contact: Dr Anna Seager (Email: A.L.Seager@swansea.ac.uk)