Thread by @AJIunit

A two-year investigation by @AJIUnit reveals how British universities are failing to protect students from sexual harassment by their lecturers, allowing them to carry on teaching even where there are multiple complaints over many years.
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Women have complained about Prof Andy Orchard’s sexual behaviour & drunkenness for 20+ years.
He’s now Prof of Anglo Saxon, at the world’s top-ranking, university, Oxford & a successor to JRR Tolkien who held the same position when he was writing Lord of the Rings.
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At Cambridge & Toronto Universities Orchard targeted female students for affairs. Women say they were terrified of academic & career reprisals if they rejected him.
A female colleague says he abused & threatened her in a drunken rage.
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Prof Peter Thompson is an Oxford history professor. “You know that feeling when there’s a dangerous man in the room,” a former student told @AJIunit.
Despite complaints from staff and students of sexual harassment and drinking being upheld, he’s still teaching.
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Here’s how women describe long term emotional & career impact.
It made me feel degraded & undervalued.
I felt like a sexualised object.
There’s a power imbalance. I was absolutely destroyed. Universities don’t safeguard their students.
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In the 6 podcasts, women say complaints processes are confusing, traumatic & hostile.
Multiple cases aren’t heard together. Individual events are dismissed as he-said-she-said. Delays of months even years mean women must live and work alongside men they accuse of abuse.
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