Understanding Gender-Based and Sexual Violence, Discrimination, and Harassment

As part of its commitment to preventing all forms of violence, UGA is organizing an awareness-raising session on gender-based and sexual violence (GBV), discrimination, and harassment for doctoral students, faculty members, and UGA staff:

In English: 

• Thursday, October 15, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. - Lecture Hall G at the CLV

This 2-hour awareness session will provide you with the tools to understand gender-based violence, discrimination, and harassment in higher education and research. It will also teach you how to legally classify these forms of violence and how to respond if you are a victim or witness. The session will be supplemented by a presentation on the UGA’s reporting system for acts of gender-based violence, discrimination, and harassment.

Knowing how to respond to gender-based and sexual violence, discrimination, and harassment while working on a dissertation

This awareness session will be followed by a workshop to delve deeper into combating sexual and gender-based violence, discrimination, and harassment in the context of doctoral research. Open exclusively to doctoral students, this 2-hour workshop will use role-playing exercises to help participants develop the right reflexes to prevent and respond to violence within the context of doctoral supervision. Two workshops, each with a maximum of 20 participants, will take place from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

In English: 

• Thursday, October 15, 2026, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. — Rooms 104 and 111 in the Simone Veil Building. Please note: Limited to 30 participants. 

You must have attended the morning orientation session to participate in the afternoon workshops.

Please note that doctoral students’ participation may be credited toward their doctoral training hours for the awareness session and workshop.