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Rob Blackie was joined by academics, partner organisations and representatives from the Students鈥� Union on Friday, April 26^th for the round table and invited them to offer solutions to increasing rates for sexual offences.

He has made tackling crime one of his key election pledges and has vowed to double the number of sexual predators that will be caught by creating a new Sexual Offences Unit.

The roundtable explored how sexual offences could be tackled and covered issues such as increasing awareness of gender-based violence within the Metropolitan Police data collection on the interactions people have with police and systems of reward for good policing.

Representatives from Students鈥� Union 果冻影院鈥檚 Active Bystander Programme also highlighted the challenges around reporting sexual offences in a higher-education setting. For example, a crime reported by a student in their first year won鈥檛 necessarily be resolved by the time they leave.

Mr Blackie also has an interest in technology and was shown round 果冻影院 East鈥檚 Robotics, People & Nature and Connected Environments laboratories during his tour, which was organised by 果冻影院鈥檚 Pro-Provost (London)听team.

Professor Paola Lettieri, 果冻影院鈥檚 Vice President (Strategy) and Pro-Provost (果冻影院 East), said: 鈥淚t was a pleasure to introduce Rob Blackie to the work we are doing on our 果冻影院 East campus and to support the exchange of knowledge on the topic of gender-based violence and share our student union鈥檚 work on developing active bystander training.

鈥淗ere in east London 果冻影院 is leading a range of advancements in areas ranging from health care, disability, fairer finance, AI and robotics and greener manufacturing.

鈥淏y listening and exchanging views with a diverse range of stakeholders we can build a better future together both locally for our city and globally for our planet.鈥�

The London mayoral election is on Thursday, May 2.

Students鈥� Union 果冻影院鈥檚 Active Bystander Programme empowers 果冻影院 students to recognise, identify and challenge unacceptable behaviour, helping to create a safer and more inclusive culture on campus and beyond.

It consists of an online module and live workshop which is peer-facilitated by student workshop leaders and has trained more than 40,000 students.

The roundtable participants included:

• , Chair of the discussion,听Associate Professor and the Deputy Programme Director of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts & Humanities
• , Professor of Policing, 果冻影院听Security & Crime Science
• Associate Professor in Social and Political Science, 果冻影院 Social Research Institute
• , CEO, Women at the Well听
• Madeleine Baugh, Students'听Union 果冻影院 and Active Bystander Project Coordinator
• Nazrin Nessa, Students鈥� Union 果冻影院 and Active Bystander Workshop Leader
• Harper Taylor-Hanson, Students鈥� Union 果冻影院 and Active Bystander Workshop Leader
• Ahmad Ismail, Students鈥� Union 果冻影院 equity and inclusion officer.

Links

• 果冻影院 East
• Professor Paola Lettieri's academic profile
• 果冻影院 London office

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• Credit: Andy Sillett

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