Exeter University - where JK Rowling and Zara Tindall studied - tops the list of 108 universities where sex assault allegations have been made by people on the Everyone s Invited website.
The forum, set up last year by former student Soma Sara for people to share their stories of sexual abuse and rape culture , has shaken Britain s educational establishments.
Along with top schools, the UK s most prestigious universities were named in the 1,000 plus testimonials and red-brick Exeter appeared most, coming up in 65 anonymous testimonials on the website.
Oxford, Leeds, Edinburgh and University College London make up the top five.
Everyone s Invited s founder Miss Sara, who set it up while living with her grandmother s Paris home during lockdown after graduating from UCL, has said they were overwhelmed with new testimonials from universities.
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Dr Nina Burrowes is the founder of The Consent Collective, a charity aiming to educate uni students about consent and to support victims of sexual assault. “We’re certainly hearing people reluctant to report because they were breaking the lockdown.
“Because you don’t want to get in trouble for breaking the rules. Like you weren’t supposed to be there, or you were with someone you weren’t supposed to be with,” Burrowes said.
Dr Susannah Walker is a reader in behavioural neuroscience at Liverpool John Moores University
âThe release of oxytocin is context-dependent: only when a hug is wanted will the comforting and rewarding effects be felt.â Paddington station, London, August 2020. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock
âThe release of oxytocin is context-dependent: only when a hug is wanted will the comforting and rewarding effects be felt.â Paddington station, London, August 2020. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock
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âWhat I miss,â said one colleague last spring, during one of our weekly online team meetings, âare hugs, great big man-hugs, like I share with my dad and close male friends.â The sense of touch has long been a shared fascination for our research group of neuroscientists and experimental psychologists. During the pandemic, everyone else has started to talk about touch too â