Rochelle Banks
@rochellebanks.bsky.social
PhD candidate and academic tutor at Griffith University researching gender-based violence and sexual harassment in educational contexts
My chapter for 'The Role of Women in Research and Innovation' is now live! Such a great way to end the year 😀🎉
Gendered Expectations: Confronting Patriarchal Structures, Power Mechanisms, and the Imperative for Gender Equity in Higher Education
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Gendered Expectations: Confronting Patriarchal Structures, Power Mechanisms, and the Imperative for Gender Equity in Higher Education
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Gendered Expectations: Confronting Patriarchal Structures, Power Mechanisms, and the Imperative for Gender Equity in Higher Education
<p>This chapter engages with ongoing and re-emerging debates around gendered expectations of women in research, the persistence of patriarchal structures, and power dynamics within academic institutio...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
My chapter for 'The Role of Women in Research and Innovation' is now live! Such a great way to end the year 😀🎉
Gendered Expectations: Confronting Patriarchal Structures, Power Mechanisms, and the Imperative for Gender Equity in Higher Education
www.intechopen.com/online-first...
Gendered Expectations: Confronting Patriarchal Structures, Power Mechanisms, and the Imperative for Gender Equity in Higher Education
www.intechopen.com/online-first...
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No! The Art and Activism of Complaining is being published by Feminist Press on April 7, 2026! We fill those speech bubbles: pop, snap, sizzle, shriek, scream, clatter, splatter! feministpress.org/collections/...
No!
An assembly of refusals portraying the radical power of “no” by the renowned scholar and author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, Sara Ahmed.To be heard as complaining is not to be heard, writes Sara ...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
No! The Art and Activism of Complaining is being published by Feminist Press on April 7, 2026! We fill those speech bubbles: pop, snap, sizzle, shriek, scream, clatter, splatter! feministpress.org/collections/...
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Examining staff-student sexual relationship policies at Australian Universities: changes since #MeToo and Change the Course (2017)
Ceridwen Spark, Denise Cuthbert & Bess Schnioffsky
doi.org/10.1080/0729...
Ceridwen Spark, Denise Cuthbert & Bess Schnioffsky
doi.org/10.1080/0729...
Examining staff-student sexual relationship policies at Australian Universities: changes since #MeToo and Change the Course (2017)
Following the establishment of legislation offering protection from sexual harassment, conversations and debate about sexual relationships between academic staff and students in higher education in...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Examining staff-student sexual relationship policies at Australian Universities: changes since #MeToo and Change the Course (2017)
Ceridwen Spark, Denise Cuthbert & Bess Schnioffsky
doi.org/10.1080/0729...
Ceridwen Spark, Denise Cuthbert & Bess Schnioffsky
doi.org/10.1080/0729...
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The post-humous memoir of Virginia Giuffre is released today
If you can, please buy/borrow a copy (paperback/e-book/audio)
Of course, if you can not, and so many of us will not be able to read it for so many reasons, please share and let people know about the story of this extraordinary woman
💔🙏🏽❤️
If you can, please buy/borrow a copy (paperback/e-book/audio)
Of course, if you can not, and so many of us will not be able to read it for so many reasons, please share and let people know about the story of this extraordinary woman
💔🙏🏽❤️
October 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The post-humous memoir of Virginia Giuffre is released today
If you can, please buy/borrow a copy (paperback/e-book/audio)
Of course, if you can not, and so many of us will not be able to read it for so many reasons, please share and let people know about the story of this extraordinary woman
💔🙏🏽❤️
If you can, please buy/borrow a copy (paperback/e-book/audio)
Of course, if you can not, and so many of us will not be able to read it for so many reasons, please share and let people know about the story of this extraordinary woman
💔🙏🏽❤️
Newly published article 🎉
I'm so delighted to share my latest article for Gender and Education #activism #gender #justice #equality
Disrupting 'bro code': autoethnographic insights of institutional sexism and sexual harassment in an Australian school context
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I'm so delighted to share my latest article for Gender and Education #activism #gender #justice #equality
Disrupting 'bro code': autoethnographic insights of institutional sexism and sexual harassment in an Australian school context
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Disrupting ‘bro code’: autoethnographic insights of institutional sexism and sexual harassment in an Australian school context
This article utilises narrative autoethnography to explore a feminist analysis of the micro-realities of sexism and sexual harassment within an Australian school context. It critically examines the...
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October 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Newly published article 🎉
I'm so delighted to share my latest article for Gender and Education #activism #gender #justice #equality
Disrupting 'bro code': autoethnographic insights of institutional sexism and sexual harassment in an Australian school context
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I'm so delighted to share my latest article for Gender and Education #activism #gender #justice #equality
Disrupting 'bro code': autoethnographic insights of institutional sexism and sexual harassment in an Australian school context
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New article published with a team of fantastic women
Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@uofgunescorila.bsky.social
Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@uofgunescorila.bsky.social
Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education
Despite operating in unpredictable times and rhetoric to the contrary, universities make it hard for academics to pursue transformative agendas, meaningful community engagement, and activism to inf...
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September 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
New article published with a team of fantastic women
Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@uofgunescorila.bsky.social
Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@uofgunescorila.bsky.social
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NEW: In 40 cities across Australia, an estimated one million people have been on the streets calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza.
These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
August 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
NEW: In 40 cities across Australia, an estimated one million people have been on the streets calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza.
These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
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Academics’ identity struggles and professional agency in the transition to teaching in a professional master’s degree programme
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Academics’ identity struggles and professional agency in the transition to teaching in a professional master’s degree programme
Academics tasked with teaching in new programmes often face identity struggles. However, there is limited knowledge of their identity development in the transition to teaching in professional-degre...
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July 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Academics’ identity struggles and professional agency in the transition to teaching in a professional master’s degree programme
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Want to boost engagement and critical thinking in your classroom? Start with better questions. These practical strategies – from questioning frameworks to peer review – can help build a more curious, enquiry-driven learning environment: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-g... #academicsky
How to get students asking better questions
Better questions can spark deeper discussions, boost engagement and develop critical thinking. These practical strategies – from questioning frameworks to encouraging peer review and self-directed ass...
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Want to boost engagement and critical thinking in your classroom? Start with better questions. These practical strategies – from questioning frameworks to peer review – can help build a more curious, enquiry-driven learning environment: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-g... #academicsky
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“Not being remembered, differentiated from others or given recognition for contributions.”
Amanda Sesko and Monica Biernat’s new work on intersectional invisibility: doi.org/10.1080/1529...
Amanda Sesko and Monica Biernat’s new work on intersectional invisibility: doi.org/10.1080/1529...
July 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“Not being remembered, differentiated from others or given recognition for contributions.”
Amanda Sesko and Monica Biernat’s new work on intersectional invisibility: doi.org/10.1080/1529...
Amanda Sesko and Monica Biernat’s new work on intersectional invisibility: doi.org/10.1080/1529...
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Are you involved in preventing harassment and sexual misconduct in higher education? Ever wondered about how to reach postgraduate research students with your work?
We've just launched a toolkit to help!
ukcge.ac.uk/assets/resou...
We've just launched a toolkit to help!
ukcge.ac.uk/assets/resou...
ukcge.ac.uk
July 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Are you involved in preventing harassment and sexual misconduct in higher education? Ever wondered about how to reach postgraduate research students with your work?
We've just launched a toolkit to help!
ukcge.ac.uk/assets/resou...
We've just launched a toolkit to help!
ukcge.ac.uk/assets/resou...
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Postgraduate researchers may be overlooked by incoming sexual harassment regulations in English universities, warns @the1752group.bsky.social @ukcge.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/phd-stu... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
PhD students ‘may be overlooked’ in sexual harassment regulations
Blurred line between staff and students could leave postgraduate researchers at greater risk
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Postgraduate researchers may be overlooked by incoming sexual harassment regulations in English universities, warns @the1752group.bsky.social @ukcge.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/phd-stu... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
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‘In a male-dominated field, my success became misconduct.’ One high-achieving female scientist’s story of a ‘textbook case of institutional gaslighting’ www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/male-d...
In a male-dominated field, my success became misconduct
When student complaints were made against a high-achieving female scientist, her institution launched a one-man inquiry that found her blameworthy merely ‘for doing my job’, she writes: a ‘textbook ca...
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
‘In a male-dominated field, my success became misconduct.’ One high-achieving female scientist’s story of a ‘textbook case of institutional gaslighting’ www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/male-d...
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Apply to be an editorial board member of the British Journal of Sociology of Education by 13th June. See the following for more details: @rachelbrooks.bsky.social @coralinglingxu.bsky.social
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Editorial Board Members needed for British Journal of Sociology of Education
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June 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Apply to be an editorial board member of the British Journal of Sociology of Education by 13th June. See the following for more details: @rachelbrooks.bsky.social @coralinglingxu.bsky.social
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
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I shared some thoughts on the supreme court, EHRC's interim guidance and the feminist dystopia some call 'gender critical' feminism yesterday. feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/meaningles...
Meaningless Sex
Some thoughts on the Supreme Court, The EHRC and other feminist dystopias
feministkilljoys.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I shared some thoughts on the supreme court, EHRC's interim guidance and the feminist dystopia some call 'gender critical' feminism yesterday. feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/meaningles...
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Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇
Sign the Petition
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
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April 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇
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Advocates praise recommendations from Australian sexual violence report but say lack of radical change a ‘missed opportunity’
Advocates praise recommendations from Australian sexual violence report but say lack of radical change a ‘missed opportunity’
Law reform report says 92% of women choose not to go to police after being sexually assaulted
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March 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Advocates praise recommendations from Australian sexual violence report but say lack of radical change a ‘missed opportunity’
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A research seminar that will be very much worth attending:
Addressing gender-based violence in academia
Monday, 10 March 2025, 13h GMT – Online
Professor Anne Laure Humbert from the University of Gothenburg
Details and registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/addressing...
Addressing gender-based violence in academia
Monday, 10 March 2025, 13h GMT – Online
Professor Anne Laure Humbert from the University of Gothenburg
Details and registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/addressing...
Addressing gender-based violence in academia - Online seminar
WiCS-Europe & RHUL host this seminar on how to create safe environments and drive action against gender-based violence in academia.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A research seminar that will be very much worth attending:
Addressing gender-based violence in academia
Monday, 10 March 2025, 13h GMT – Online
Professor Anne Laure Humbert from the University of Gothenburg
Details and registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/addressing...
Addressing gender-based violence in academia
Monday, 10 March 2025, 13h GMT – Online
Professor Anne Laure Humbert from the University of Gothenburg
Details and registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/addressing...
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The second, chaired by Anna Bull, looked at challenges in academic publishing on sexual misconduct.
It is also available as an academic text for referencing purposes: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(Apologies for the paywall—the content is the same as the open access report)
It is also available as an academic text for referencing purposes: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(Apologies for the paywall—the content is the same as the open access report)
Academic freedom in publishing on gender-based violence and harassment
The edited collection Sexual Misconduct in Academia was published in 2023 by Routledge-Taylor & Francis Group but a few months later the book was withdrawn from publication. This commentary and cri...
www.tandfonline.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The second, chaired by Anna Bull, looked at challenges in academic publishing on sexual misconduct.
It is also available as an academic text for referencing purposes: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(Apologies for the paywall—the content is the same as the open access report)
It is also available as an academic text for referencing purposes: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(Apologies for the paywall—the content is the same as the open access report)
An Ear to the Door
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An Ear to the Door
On the Politics of What Does and Does Not Count as Speech
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February 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
An Ear to the Door
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