Student guide to tackling harassment, hate and sexual misconduct

Key facts

1. Students are more likely to have experienced sexual assault than any other group (Office for National Statistics, 2021). 
2. Nearly one in three black and Asian students have experienced racial harassment on campus (Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2019).
3. Only one in three students who had experienced racial harassment during the 2018-19 academic year reported it to their university (Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2019).
4. In the past two years there has been a 22 per cent increase of antisemitic incidents reported on campus (Community Security Trust, 2023).
5. In a 2018 survey, seven per cent of trans students reported being physically attacked by another student or a member of university staff in the last year because of being trans (Stonewall and YouGov, 2018).
6. In 2018, one in three Muslim students experienced some form of crime or abuse at their place of study in because of their beliefs (National Union of Students, 2018).