Webinar: Connecting with student voice and lived experience to prevent gender-based violence

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About the event

10 Apr, 2025

2.00pm–3.15pm AEST

Online via Zoom

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How can universities create safer, more inclusive environments for students that challenge harmful behaviours and promote gender equality?

This session is ideal for university staff, student leaders, accommodation providers, and those involved in student support, and gender-based violence prevention. 

About this webinar

This webinar will provide practical strategies to help universities meaningfully engage students in prevention approaches, promote student voice and lived experience to strengthen the key domain of student life as identified in Our Watch’s Educating for equality framework.  
 
Experts will explore how universities can engage student voice and lived experience using ethical and trauma-informed practice. The discussion will cover key areas such as trauma and trauma-informed practice, ethical considerations, utilising community expert consultation and research, and engaging intersectional student voice and lived experience over the life cycle of Educating for equality. 

Key takeaways: 

  • Understand the role of students in preventing gender-based violence. 
  • Deepen knowledge of trauma and how this relates to practice of consulting and engaging with student voice and lived experience. 
  • Increase confidence in delivering trauma-informed practice.
  • Learn how university leadership, policies, and frameworks can influence inclusion and enhance representation. 
  • Build confidence to implement proactive prevention strategies within your institution. 

This webinar will be moderated by Freya Rodway (she/her), Primary Prevention Program Officer (Universities), Our Watch.

Accessibility and other requirements

This webinar will have closed captions. To learn about other ways to register, or for questions about access or the training, please email training@ourwatch.org.au

Presenters

Dr Lucy Mercer-Mapstone, Collective Voices Consulting 

Dr Lucy Mercer-Mapstone, Collective Voices Consulting 

Collective Voices Consulting

Dr Lucy Mercer-Mapstone (she/her) brings her whole self to leading Collective Voices Consulting.

She has deep expertise in engagement, lived experience advocacy, human research, public speaking, facilitation, teaching, and in equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Lucy is a queer, neurodivergent, disabled woman, and a victim-survivor of sexual assault. She has a long history of research, teaching, facilitation, and advocacy around all these lived experiences driving social, cultural, organisational, and legislative reform for a more inclusive society. Lucy integrates her first-hand navigation of systems of privilege and oppression into her engagements, making them authentic, inclusive, and accessible. 

Tash Mikitas, Head of Training and Consulting, Full Stop Australia

Tash Mikitas, Head of Training and Consulting, Full Stop Australia

Full Stop Australia

Tash Mikitas (she/her) has 10 years’ experience in delivering training and consultancy services, specialising in prevention and response to gender inequality, sexual harassment and domestic, family and sexual violence.

She has designed and continues to facilitate a range of Full Stop’s training programs specific to higher education, including Responding with Compassion, Ethical Bystander Intervention and Ethical Pedagogical Practices – a prevention program aimed at HDR supervisors.  

Tash leads a team of multi-disciplinary practitioners who combine Full Stop Australia's trauma-specialist expertise, wide reaching advocacy and lived-experience collaboration, into educational programs which drive meaningful change and contribute to ending gendered violence. 

Saxon McGregor, Bond University

Saxon McGregor, Bond University

Bond University Student Association

Saxon McGregor (he/him) is Immediate Past President of the Bond University Student Association.

During his leadership, Saxon led a culture of inclusion, respect, and responsibility and played a key role in the whole-of-organisation approach to embedding gender equality and preventing gender-based violence. More broadly, Saxon is the Senior Resident Fellow of a residential college, Fellow of Welcoming Universities, and member of Bond University's Educating for Equality Framework Implementation Group.

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Educating for equality – resource

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Educating for equality draws on the national and international evidence base to prevent gender-based violence in the university context.