Encourage. Support. Act! - Acknowledgements

Encourage. Support. Act!

Bystander Approaches to Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

• Back to Contents

• Foreword

• Executive summary

• Introduction

• Part 1: Sexual harassment: an overview

• Part 2: Sexual harassment from the perspective of bystanders

• Part 3: The motivations and actions of bystanders: theoretical perspectives on bystander intervention

• Part 4: Bystander interventions in violence prevention

• Part 5: Legal and organisational implications of bystander approaches for sexual harassment

• Part 6: Towards a prevention framework

• Conclusion

• Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

The Australian Human Rights Commission acknowledges the authors:

• Authors Paula McDonald and Michael Flood:

Paula McDonald is an Associate Professor in the School of Management at the Queensland University of Technology. Her research addresses a number of areas relevant to social justice issues at work, including sexual harassment and other forms of gender-based discrimination, the early work experiences of young people and work-life boundaries. Paula has published several studies in the area of workplace sexual harassment. These include a review article in the International Journal of Management Reviews in ߛ 2 articles using data from the Australian Human Rights Commission 2008 prevalence study (with Sara Charlesworth) in Women's Studies International Forum and the Australian Journal of Social Issues in 2011/ߜ and an analysis of judicial decisions based on a theory of ‘outrage management' in the US journal Psychology of Women Quarterly (with Tina Graham and Brian Martin) in 2010. She is currently leading an ARC Discovery project (with Sara Charlesworth) titled: Sexual harassment in Australia: Contexts, outcomes and prevention.

Michael Flood is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wollongong. His research focuses on the primary prevention of violence against women, men and gender and young men's heterosexual relations. He is the lead editor of the International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities and the author of a wide variety of academic papers on men and masculinities, violence against women and violence prevention, male heterosexuality, fathering and pornography. Michael's recent articles include pieces on involving men in violence prevention in the journals Men and Masculinities (2011) and Feminism & Psychology (2011), on young men's pornography use in the collection Everyday Pornographies (2010) and the report Where Men Stand: Men's roles in ending violence against women (2010). Michael also is a trainer and community educator with a long involvement in community advocacy and education work focused on men's violence against women.

• The Commission also acknowledges the contributions of Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Andrea Durbach, Deputy Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Sex Discrimination Team and Community Engagement Team of the Australian Human Rights Commission.

For further information about the Australian Human Rights Commission, please visit: www.humanrights.gov.au or email: communications@humanrights.gov.au You can also write to: Communications Unit Australian Human Rights Commission GPO Box 5218 Sydney NS W 2001

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