UQ Respect Workshops and Training

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.

You can access the UQ Respect Safe Events Planning Guide here.

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

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. 

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.