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30.04.2024
SAFEDUC Research Project : Meet the Team
In 2023-24, Sciences Po and Université Paris Cité conduct a joint research project to measure the prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence among their student population.
Titled SAFEDUC, the research is taking place under Sciences Po’s Gender Studies Programme, and aims to collect data in order to map the experiences of higher education students. It is carried out via an anonymous online survey accessible to all 82,000 students students at both institutions from March 25th to May 19th, 2024.
Meet the team by reading their interviews.
Virginie Bonnot and Hélène Périvier, principal investigators
“The topic is very important and similar studies at other universities have found significant rates of gender-based and sexual violence, enough for us to be preoccupied, both as researchers and teachers, but also as citizens.”
“The SAFEDUC project is key to analysing gender inequalities in higher education”
Clara Le Gallic-Ach and Victor Coutolleau, contract researchers
“We worked on the questionnaire for a couple of months and the rest was logistics. You've got all those questions you have to solve that you don't have in mind when you're working on a database that was produced by other people. For instance, yes, we are going to reach students by their emails, but how do you send an email to 82,000 people? Or yes, let's use an authentication system, but how do you use an authentication system that is in accordance with GDPR?”
Marta Domínguez Folgueras, Associate Professor of Sociology at the Sciences Po Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS)
“Everyone, of course, can be a victim of violence, but we know that some groups – in this case, women and gender non-conforming or non-binary, LGBTQI+ people – are more vulnerable than others.”
Joëlle Kivits, professor in Sociology and Public Health, Vice-President for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Université Paris Cité
“We often talk about wellness and how to eat, how to move, and how we should not smoke, whatsoever. I think that dealing with violence needs to be one of the topics of this kind of overall health prevention.”
Violette Toye, Sciences Po Gender Studies Programme's general secretary
"Behind a research project, there are plenty of things that are not immediately apparent. There is indeed the research team, but also plenty of oft-forgotten colleagues from various support roles who assist the project throughout its execution."
Eva Oliva, Erasmus + intern
“I wanted to see how it is done, what are the methods and practices of collecting this kind of data, to see the process from within and of course be useful in bringing the knowledge acquired from my work on this topic from the Czech context.”
