Preventing and responding to gender based violence: a whole school framework

Appendix D: Research used to inform this Framework

Introduction

• Sexual harassment in secondary school: Prevalence and ambiguities. A mixed methods study in Scottish schools | PLOS ONE;
• Girlguiding: Girls’ Attitudes Survey 2015;
• Interventions Alliance: Domestic Abuse in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Groups;
• Children’s Parliament Gender Equality in Education and Learning (www.gov.scot)
• The Young Women Lead Committee 2018 report on Sexual Harassment in Schools
• Everyone’s Invited information on experiences of sexual harassment in schools across the UK, including in Scotland.
• Girlguiding Scotland’s 2021 report to Scottish Parliament, which evidenced concerns about the issue of sexual harassment in schools.
• The Everyday Heroes consultation for the Equally Safe delivery plan.

Understanding Gender Based Violence and its impacts

• Recommendations from the Working Group on Misogyny and Criminal Justice in Scotland
• Recommendations from the Expert Group on Preventing Sexual Offending Involving Children and Young People
• Crooks, C. V., Jaffe, P., Dunlop, C., Kerry, A., & Exner-Cortens, D. (2019). Preventing Gender Based Violence Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Lessons From 25 Years of Program Development and Evaluation’ in Violence Against Women, 25(1), pp 29–55
• Vanner, C., Holloway, A., and Almanssori, S. (2022), ‘Teaching and learning with power and priviledge: student and teacher identity in education about gender based violence’, in Teaching and Teacher Education 116(4)
• Harris, J.C., & Linder, C. (Eds.), Intersections of Identity and Sexual Violence on Campus: Centering Minoritized Students’ Experiences (2017)
• Harmful sexual behaviour by children and young people: Expert Group report - gov. scot (www.gov.scot): Chapter 3: The nature of Harmful Sexual Behaviours (HSB)
• Domestic Abuse in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Groups
• It is not Cool to be Cruel: Prejudice-based bullying and harassment of children and young people in schools (azureedge.net)
• Hidden Figures: LGBT Health Inequalities in the UK
• Spotlight #6: LGBT+ people and domestic abuse | Safelives
• Intimate Partner Violence in Same-Sex Relationships: Are We Aware of the Implications? – Anindya Kar, Nabagata Das, Matt Broadway-Horner, Praveen Kumar, 2023 (sagepub.com)
• Domestic Violence and Abuse in Same-Sex Relationships | SpringerLink;
• Researching domestic violence in same-sex relationships–a feminist epistemological approach to survey development – PubMed (nih.gov);
• LGBT Youth Scotland: LGBT Young Women and Girls in Scotland 2020 Consultation - Briefing
• Matt Pinkett and Mark Roberts, Boys don’t try? Rethinking masculinity in Schools (2019)

Universal approaches to preventing gender based violence

• Vanner, C. and Almanssori, S. (2021) ‘‘The whole truth’: student perspectives on how Canadian teachers should teach about gender based violence’, Pedagogy, Culture & Society, pp. 1-20. Accessed 8 September 2022.
• Crooks, C. V., Jaffe, P., Dunlop, C., Kerr, A., Exner-Cortens, D. (2019) ‘Preventing Gender Based Violence Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Lessons From 25 Years of Program Development and Evaluation’, Violence Against Women, Vol 25(1), pp. 29-55

Targeted approaches to responding to GBV

• Adopting a Trauma-Informed Approach | Improvement Service;
• How can adopting a trauma-informed approach help drive forward improved outcomes as part of Scotland’s roadmap for COVID-19 recovery, renewal and transformation? Learning Report: Violence Against Women and Girls
• NES Education for Scotland: Transforming Psychological Trauma: National Trauma Training Programme Online Resources