One in five students at the University of Oxford say they have been sexually assaulted while more than two-thirds have experienced sexual harassment, the second survey of its kind at the institution has found.
Of the 1,097 people to respond, 20 per cent reported that they had experienced at least one act of attempted or forced sexual touching or rape within the previous year.
Women were more than twice as likely to report sexual assault than men, according to the latest findings of the “Our Space” (Oxford Understanding Relationships, Sex, Power, Abuse, and Consent Experiences) research project.
The overall figure is slightly down on the previous survey’s findings, in which, of the 1,318 respondents who answered at least one question, 21 per cent said they had experienced assault.
But sexual harassment has become much more prevalent, with more than two-thirds of respondents (69 per cent) reporting at least one incident in the past year, and more than four in five women saying they had experienced it. In the previous survey, 53 per cent said the same.
