Research and collaboration programme against sexual harassment and gender-based vulnerability

Together with Karolinska Institutet, Malmö University and the National Secretariat for Gender Research at the University of Gothenburg, KTH is a partner in the Research and collaboration programme against sexual harassment and gender-based vulnerability (the programme concluded in December 2022). The results from a study on the prevalence of gender-based vulnerability in the Swedish higher education sector, which was carried out by Statistics Sweden in 2021, were published and presented in 2022. The results serve as the basis for a number of initiatives and measures to promote preventive work to combat sexual harassment in academia, which is an issue that has been discussed at a number of seminars in the sector in 2022. 2021: The Equality Office will provide information about the prevalence study at KTH in order to achieve a high response rate. 2021: The Equality Office will ensure that data generated by the prevalence study on KTH are analysed by researchers at KTH. 2022: The Equality Office will initiate change projects for the development of an inclusive culture and zero tolerance for sexual harassment based on previous research and new data from the prevalence study as an important part of the in-depth work with ethics and values at KTH. 2023-2025: The Equality Forum (see section 3.2.4) will continue to spread information about the preventive work against sexual harassment. The KTH Equality Office will produce the support material that managers, heads of function areas and leaders at KTH need to facilitate the preventive work against sexual harassment. The research seminars that have been carried out by the KTH Equality Office within the framework of the Research and collaboration programme against sexual harassment and gender-based vulnerability will continue to be arranged in collaboration with actors working in the sector in order to utilise new and ongoing research on sexual harassment and gender-based vulnerability. 2023-2025: the KTH Equality Office will continue the change processes for the development of an inclusive culture and zero tolerance for sexual harassment that were initiated in 2022 as an important part of the in-depth work with ethics and values at KTH. This work is aimed at different target groups, for example, PhD students. Researchers in the gender network will provide support for this work.