According to a research conducted by the National Union of Students, sexual harassment by lecturers is prevalent with two fifths of students experiencing behaviour, which can be connoted as sexualised behaviour by university staff. According to the research which questioned over 1,800 current and former students as well as analysed statistics from four focus groups, most of the perpetrators were academics.
The National Union of Students worked alongside the 1752 Group, a research organisation which campaigns to end sexual misconduct in higher education. Four out of ten respondents claimed to have experienced at least one occurrence of sexual jokes, comments and unwanted touching from staff. The report also suggests that women were more likely to have been victims and to have been negatively affected, in comparison to men.
