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Professor Louise Crowley, UCC School of Law and director of UCC’s Bystander Intervention Programme
Professor Louise Crowley
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is a Professor in Family Law at the School of Law, UCC. In 2016 Louise developed the Bystander Intervention initiative at UCC which seeks to enhance awareness of the dangers of the normalisation of sexual misconduct and to empower students to actively challenge this behaviour and demand a more respectful norm. The programme is available to all staff and students at UCC and is being rolled out to Third Level institutions across the sector. Louise was a member of the Expert Group that produced the National Framework to End Sexual Violence and Harassment in Irish Higher Education Institutions, published in April 2019. In light of this work, Louise was awarded UCC President's Exceptional Citizen award in 2018, and Honorary Membership of the UCC Students Union in 2019.
In November 2019 Louise was awarded HEA funding of 鈧350,000 to lead a 2-year UCC cross-campus response to the requirements of the National Framework which will demonstrate a gold standard implementation of the UCC Framework Action Plan. In 2021, at the behest of the then Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, Louise developed an online Bystander Intervention Orientation training session for first-year students across the sector.
For 9 months in 2023/24 Louise delivered Sexual Ethics and Respectful Relationships workshops to 3,000 members of the Irish Defence Forces, as part of their response to the recommendations of the IRG report and was awarded the 2023 Impact Award at the UCC College of Business and Law Staff Recognition Awards the UCC Consultancy Research Project of the Year for this work in May 2024.
Finally, Louise received funding of 鈧405,000 from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in 2023/24 to develop and rollout the national All Right All Night Training programme, targeting young people aged 16 鈥 24, to empower them to act together for safer nights out.
Céline Griffin
is the Bystander Programme Manager. Her significant projects to date include updating the Bystander Programme content and adapting it to a version suitable for staff and the workplace setting. She also created a more condensed version (RSVP Programme) aimed specifically at all incoming first years to UCC. She manages rollout of the Bystander Intervention programmes for staff and students across the Higher Education sector. She has also created content for the Irish Research Council funded Secondary School Pilot Programme and provided training to those staff members delivering the pilot.
C茅line has worked collaboratively with Professor Louise Crowley to secure 2 key national projects. Firstly, delivery of Sexual Ethics and Respectful Relationship training to the Irish Defence Forces which was awarded the UCC Consultancy Research Project of the Year for this work in May 2024.
Secondly, the campaign to promote and funding from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in 2023 to develop and rollout the national All Right All Night Training programme, targeting youth aged 16 鈥 24 to empower them to act together for safer nights out.
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