Louise Crowley

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“If you wouldn’t say something in the presence of a women, you shouldn’t be saying it at all.”
University shows students how to intervene if a witness of sexual harassment

Mark Cooper, a second-year law and business student at University College Cork, last week joined the university’s efforts to safeguard women in the wa(...)

Alicia O’Sullivan felt ‘nobody was sure’ how to handle the complaint. Photograph: Andy Gibson
‘They were putting up photos of girls nude from the neck down, insinuating it was me’

'There seems to be a targeting of young women to try and sell whatever they’re trying to sell': after her identity was stolen by the porn industry,(...)

Photograph: Jena Ardell/Moment/Getty
‘Fast sex, slow love’: How Irish relationships have changed

The architecture of our intimate lives is changing. Irish couples have more choice than ever about how they want to design their relationships, and th(...)

Louise Crowley, a senior lecturer in law, says UCC’s bystander initiative is helping to create a safer campus. “We are seeking to shatter the false consensus over the normality or acceptance of inappropriate behaviour.” Photograph: UCC
Consent on campus: ‘We’re building zero tolerance to sexual harassment’

One of the most ambitious attempts to create a “zero tolerance” approach to sexual harassment in Irish third level is unfolding on the campus of Unive(...)

‘It Stops Now’: campaign aims to tackle the harmful behaviours which prevent students from being able to safely and equally participate in college life. Photograph: It Stops Now
UCC students unveil mural against sexual violence in college

University College Cork students will unveil a mural on Monday calling for an end to sexual violence and harassment in third-level institutions. It i(...)

The consent workshops, developed by researchers at NUI Galway, will be offered to transition-year students
Transition year students to have access to sexual consent workshops

Transition year schools will have access to sexual consent workshops and classes under a new national initiative. NUI Galway researchers, who were th(...)

Student rape: most research suggests that rape and sexual assault involving students – especially first-years – are a feature across third-level campuses. Illustration: Getty Images
Students and sexual assault: ‘We had sex. Well, he had sex’

It was her first year in college and Leanne was approaching the end of her exams in 2016. “It was supposed to be a time of excitement, change and acco(...)

Dr Louise Crowley, of the UCC School of Law which is hosting a conference on domestic abuse on Friday, said existing State responses to the issue are typically reactive and under-resourced. Photograph: Tomas Tyner/UCC.
Ireland failing victims of domestic violence, academic says

Ireland is failing the victims of domestic abuse by not adequately intervening with the perpetrators, an international conference on the issue at Univ(...)