#NeverOk Project

This collaborative project is specifically looking at tackling sexual violence, assault and harassment on campus. The Live Brief is to engage student in awareness raising and behavioural change strategies. This means changing a culture of inequality and silence against a nation wide issue. A report by the National Union of Students (NUS) suggests that one in five students experience some sort of sexual harassment during their first week of term. Sexual comments, wolf-whistling when students walked into lectures, heckling in nightclub queues and jokes about rape were all cited as examples. 31 per cent of female students polled said they had been the victim of “inappropriate touching or groping” and around one in 20 had experienced more intimate but unwelcome advances or been pressurised into sexual activity. Overall 34 per cent indicated they had experienced some form of assault or abuse. So Buckinghamshire New University are speaking up against it, for themselves and also for other vulnerable students. For more information on this project, visit at https://chrisoarts.co/neverok