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Richard Baker, Brent Amundson & Erin Gillen delivered the presentation at the 2014 Campus & Student Security Conference. The 2014 Campus & Student Security Conference emphasised the importance of engagement and communication by bringing together a broad range of stakeholders who actively exchanged ideas, initiatives and opinions around optimising student security. For more information about the event, please visit: http://www.informa.com.au/campussecurityconference14TRANSCRIPT
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Enhancing student safety and well-being at ANU
Richard Baker ANU Pro Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience)
Brent Amundson ANU Head of Security
Erin Gillen ANU Student Association’s Women’s Officer
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Outline of talk
• Richard Baker - introduction to ANU –
getting policy and procedures right –
guided by some underlying principles
• Brent Amundson - Head of Security –
getting practice right
• Erin Gillen ANU Student Association’s
(ANUSA) Women’s Officer – engaging
student perspectives
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ANU background • 145 hectares campus
• 37% of our students live
on campus
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ANU background
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Keys steps in ANU’s approach
1. Driving culture change regarding alcohol use
2. Providing high quality student leadership
training and support
3. Working closely with all Halls of Residents
(both ANU controlled ones and affiliated)
4. Focusing on well-being and health starting in
o-week maintained throughout each year
5. Coordinating University service providers and
student groups to assist 1-4
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1. Transparency in our approaches and
acknowledgement of problems such as
binge drinking, racism, homophobia,
sexual assaults
2. Learning community approach
3. Empowerment of students
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Some principles guiding our approach
to safety
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Learning community
• Principle that you can always do better by
monitoring and evaluation
• Use research capacity of a university
– e.g. Centre for Mental Health Research,
– e.g. student projects from Medical School,
psychology, science communication, leadership and
geography student projects
• Nikki Sloan 3rd year geography student’s map
of fear of crime
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Under-grad student fear of crime - day
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Graduate student fear of crime - day
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Under-Grad student fear of crime - night
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Graduate student fear of crime - night
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Learning from good practice elsewhere
e.g. USA “bystander intervention”
approaches that aims to:
1. Alert students to prevalence of violence on
campus
2. Stressing a community of responsibility
3. Modelling effective intervention strategies
4. Give students confidence to intervene by
giving them opportunities to practice these
skills in realistic scenarios
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Getting procedures and policies right
• Public document on “Response to allegation
of recent sexual assault”
• Critical incident procedures
• Mandatory training on issues around
responding to allegations of sexual assaults
and domestic violence for staff and student
leaders in residential halls
• Lot of work to better plan orientation week
• Recently revised our liquor statute
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Security Manager Role
• Maintaining a safe and
secure environment on
campus
• Providing support to
students and staff
through afterhours
escorts, safety advice,
etc.
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Security Manager Role continued
• Operate and develop a team of security
personnel to work with the community - strong
client focus
• Sit on numerous committees including the
UniSafe Committee
• Liaise with Australian Federal Police to help
safeguard the campus against threats
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Challenges
• The need to change the security teams outlook on
campus to a more client focused approach as
opposed to one of strictly enforcement
• Existing perceptions/expectations of Orientation
week (O-week) and enforcing the new look week
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Accomplishments
• Community approach
• Creation of the Functions on Campus team
• Changes to the ANU Liquor Statute 2013
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Improved o-week
• Pre O-week planning with ANUSA
and key stakeholders
• Banned advertising of pub-crawls
• More non-alcoholic events
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• Elected representative on
ANU Students Association
(ANUSA)
• Support and referral service
for all women identifying
students on campus
• Member of women’s
collective
• Sit on ANU UniSafe
committee
• Sit on ANUSA Safety on
Campus committee
ANUSA Women’s Officer
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Involving students
• Training, consultation and campaigns
• Utilising student leaders at residential halls,
representatives on the students association and
other interested students to identify issues and
solutions
• Challenges:
– Student workloads
– Succession planning – many student leadership positions
are only held for 12 months
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Public lecture on affirmative consent (2014)
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‘Not a Wife Beater’ campaign (2013)
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‘Our campus: make it safe’ campaign
• Student led campaign aimed at reducing violence on campus,
and increasing feelings of community and respect
• Semester divided into key themes:
– Diversity
– Sexual violence, consent
– Racism
– Homophobia and transphobia
– Anti-violence messages
• Women’s Department has taken on the coordinating role for
sexual violence / consent weeks
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Ideal O-Week?
• Thorough O-week training for student leaders:
– Training following exams the previous year
– Online summer training and resources
– ‘N-week’ (pre O- week training)
– Covering sexual assault, domestic violence, LGBTQI*
• Increased reporting of assault
• Well-managed and planned events
• Events with a focus other than alcohol (eg. Night market)
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Thank you for your attention
If you have any questions/comments about
safety at ANU email any of us
or come up to any of us after this talk
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