Mid-Career Fellowship award for Dr Anna Bull

Posted on 5 May 2026

Congraluations for Dr Anna Bull for receiving a Mid-Career Fellowship award for her project titled, "Power-based sexual harassment in higher education: interrupting the cycle".

Dr Anna Bull's project discusses power-based sexual harassment from academic staff towards students or early career researchers and how this continues to occur in higher education.

This project will synthesise and re-analyse data from three previous studies to outline the cultural, social, institutional and regulatory processes that enable the perpetuation of staff/faculty sexual harassment; explain why institutions often fail to respond adequately when the issue is reported to them; and reveal how to interrupt the cycle whereby the impacts of sexual harassment exacerbate gender and other inequalities.

The findings will be published as a monograph that will enable practitioners and policymakers to better prevent and address power-based sexual harassment and its impacts.

The project’s dissemination strategy will draw on Dr Anna's extensive networks as a campaigner in this area to run webinars for stakeholders within higher education that will enable them to better address sexual harassment and convene a public event to raise awareness of this issue.

For further information about Dr Anna's work, view her profile.