UQ Respect Training
As part of our sexual and gender-based violence prevention strategy, UQ Respect delivers a variety of workshops and educational sessions for both UQ staff and students throughout the year. Below you can find a summary of the workshops we offer regularly to the UQ community and information about how to register.
Can’t find the workshop you’re looking for? Fill out our Training EOI form or email uqrespect@uq.edu.au to request a tailored workshop or presentation.
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Discover and participate in the training sessions designed specifically for UQ students and community.
Pre-placement presentation
Length: 30 minutes
Audience: Students with a placement/pre-professional practice component to their course
Delivery: Face-to-face or online
Pre-requisites: N/A
Placements provide a great opportunity for students to put the knowledge and skills developed throughout their degree into practice. It’s important that all students have an understanding of their rights and pathways to support while on placement.
This short, interactive presentation is designed to provide students with information on:
- Rights and expectations in the workplace
- Recognising harmful behaviours in the workplace: identifying sexual misconduct, discrimination, bullying and harassment
- Support and reporting options while on placement
- Ethical bystander interventions in the workplace
Placement coordinators can request a session via our Training EOI form.
Safe Events Planning
Length: 1 hour
Audience: Student leaders and club executives (can be tailored to a staff context)
Delivery: Face-to-face
Pre-requisites: N/A
This workshop aims to equip students with the skills and tools necessary to plan events with safety and inclusivity in mind.
In this workshop, we’ll unpack some of the risks and challenges that can arise during and following events. We’ll discuss strategies that student leaders can use to prevent and address harmful and disrespectful behaviour – including sexual violence – to ensure their events are fun and inclusive for all attendees.
In the second half of the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to get creative and put their skills into practice by undertaking the first stage of event planning!
You can request a session via our Training EOI form.
Creating Safe Clubs and Societies
Length: 2 hours
Audience: Student club and society leaders
Delivery: Face-to-face
Pre-requisites: N/A
This workshop aims to empower club and society executives with the knowledge and skills necessary to promote a safe and inclusive club environment. In this workshop we’ll cover:
- How to identify harmful behaviour, including sexual violence
- Responding to disclosures of sexual violence
- Understanding support and reporting options
- The gender-based violence pyramid: understanding and addressing the drivers of violence
- Safe events planning
- Using your power for good: ethical bystander interventions
Respect at UQ
We all have the right to be safe and respected at University and in all aspects of our lives.
It is important that we all understand how we can contribute to a culture of consent and respect, and how we can best support someone who has experienced sexual assault or harassment.
The content of the Respect at UQ module has been developed with input from subject matter specialists, along with staff and students, and is designed to give members of the UQ community safe, practical information about:
• understanding and navigating consent and respectful relationships;
• myths about sexual misconduct;
• how to be an ethical bystander and safely intervene if you witness harmful behaviour;
• how you can support someone who has experienced sexual misconduct;
• where to seek support and reporting options at UQ.
You can find a summary of the content included in the module here.
Deadline to complete the Respect at UQ Module
All coursework students enrolled at UQ are required to complete the mandatory ‘Respect at UQ’ training module.
Coursework students commencing at UQ in Semester 2, 2024 and students returning to their studies after a break will need to complete the module by 5pm on Sunday 11 August 2024.
Higher Degree by Research candidates are required to complete a different Respect at UQ: Higher Degree Research Context training module via Workday. More information about the module is available on the module summary in Workday.
Ethical Bystander Interventions in the University Context
Length: 2.5 hours
Audience: UQ community
Delivery: Face-to-face
Pre-requisites: N/A
This workshop aims to provide members of the UQ community with the skills to safely intervene if they witness harmful or discriminatory behaviour. This workshop will guide participants through scenarios in which you will explore strategies you can use to take action to promote a safer, more respectful community. UQ staff can register for this workshop via Workday. Affiliate staff who don’t have access to Workday (e.g. college/UQ Sport staff) can email uqrespect@uq.edu.au to register.
If you would like to request a session for your club, college or organisational area you can do so via our Training EOI form.
Explore and attend the training options available to you to help promote a safe and respectful UQ Community.
Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault: What are the drivers and how can staff respond?
All staff at Australian universities need to be able to identify and take appropriate action on incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault. This online module was developed by Universities Australia and the Australian Psychological Society and adopted at UQ for ALL university staff to complete. It will take approximately one hour to complete the module.
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Identify behaviours that constitute sexual harassment and sexual assault;
- Understand their drivers;
- Better understand how often they occur and their effects;
- Identify barriers to reporting, disclosing and seeking help;
- Respond and support students and staff appropriately and effectively; and
- Identify support systems in your university
Preventing Sexual Misconduct in the University Context
Length: 4 hours
Audience: UQ and affiliate staff
Delivery: Face-to-face
Pre-requisites: N/A
Sexual assault and sexual harassment is a serious issue affecting students and staff at universities across Australia.
This course focuses on how we as staff at UQ can actively prevent sexual violence and promote safe, trauma informed and inclusive learning and workplace environments for both students and fellow staff.
Key topics that are explored in this course include:
- how to identify sexual misconduct behaviours
- understanding and communicating consent
- creating trauma informed settings and environments
- outlining the drivers of sexual and gender-based violence to influence change
UQ staff can register for this workshop via Workday. Affiliate staff who don’t have access to Workday (e.g. college/UQ Sport staff) can email uqrespect@uq.edu.au to register.
Responding to Sexual Misconduct in the University Context
Length: 4 hours
Audience: UQ and affiliate staff
Delivery: Face-to-face
Pre-requisites: Preventing Sexual Misconduct in the University Context is a pre-requisite to this training and participants must have completed this course in the previous 12 months.
This training builds on the knowledge developed in the previous course by focusing on teaching participants how to respond to disclosures of sexual misconduct with a trauma informed approach. Participants will have the opportunity to practise these new skills by responding to different scenarios and case studies, whilst also participating in interactive and engaging group discussions.
Participants will also be provided with resources and services to support their own self-care and to identify instances of vicarious trauma to further protect their own wellbeing.
UQ’s Integrity Unit also presents a session during this course to assist participants to better understand the formal reporting pathways here at UQ.
UQ staff can register for this workshop via Workday. Affiliate staff who don’t have access to Workday (e.g. college/UQ Sport staff) can email uqrespect@uq.edu.au to register.
Preventing and Responding to Sexual Misconduct Refresher Training
Length: 4 hours
Audience: UQ and affiliate staff
Delivery: Face-to-face
Pre-requisites: Attendees must have previously completed both Preventing Sexual Misconduct in the University Context and Responding to Sexual Misconduct in the University Context.
This course refreshes the content taught in "Preventing Sexual Misconduct in the University Context" and "Responding to Sexual Misconduct in the University Context". It also aims to ensure members of the First Responder Network are supported in their roles with updates on current best practice and research.
UQ staff can register for this workshop via Workday. Affiliate staff who don’t have access to Workday (e.g. college/UQ Sport staff) can email uqrespect@uq.edu.au to register.
Ethical Bystander Interventions in the University Context
Length: 2.5 hours
Audience: UQ community
Delivery: Face-to-face
Pre-requisites: N/A
This workshop aims to provide members of the UQ community with the skills to safely intervene if they witness harmful or discriminatory behaviour. This workshop will guide participants through scenarios in which you will explore strategies you can use to take action to promote a safer, more respectful community. UQ staff can register for this workshop via Workday. Affiliate staff who don’t have access to Workday (e.g. college/UQ Sport staff) can email uqrespect@uq.edu.au to register.
If you would like to request a session for your club, college or organisational area you can do so via our Training EOI form.