Vol. 31, Aug. 2022 Issue

Harassment Consultation Center News
It's been hot every day. Please be sure to drink plenty of fluids and take some salt asnecessary, not just while outdoors but also indoors as well. Also, COVID-19 is still goingaround, so we feel it is still important for us to continue to wash hands, gargle, etc.
In this issue of the Harassment Consultation Center News, we would like to introduce the"Lab-visit Harassment Prevention Training" that the Center has been carrying out since
2016.
Particular to our Center is that a large number of consultations are related to academic
harassment between faculty and students.
However, the results of the harassment-related questionnaire carried out by our Centerin 2013 showed that there is a low level of familiarity with academic harassment
compared to sexual harassment or power harassment.
Due to this, we are carrying out Lab-visit Harassment Prevention Training for all researchlabs, where our counselors visit research labs etc. to raise awareness about harassment
prevention and inform members about the University’s harassment prevention systems
and about our Center.

What do we do during the Lab-visit Harassment Prevention Training?
The counselors at the Harassment Consultation Center godirectly to research labs, seminars, etc., to talk about basic
knowledge on harassment with the faculty, staff members andstudents meeting there, and have them think together about
what each person can do to prevent harassment, as well as
explaining the role of our Center and how to use it.
* We explain basic knowledge regarding harassment as well as how the Center has
been utilized, etc. using slideshow presentations via a projector, etc. We will also
allocate time for talking with faculty members after the training. (Training = 45minutes; Talking with faculty = 15 minutes)
We will ask you to fill out a questionnaire after the training.
* For the purpose of preventing the spread of COVID-19, we are also currently
carrying out online (Zoom) training.
Oh, I see. If these are conducted on a research-lab or seminar basis,that must mean the number of participants is small.
Yes. It’s easier for the participants and counselors to interact
with each other when there are fewer people. We hope thatthese interactions become opportunities for each and every
person to think about harassment.

That makes sense. How many Nagoya University members
have participated so far?
As of July 28, 2022, we have had a total of 2,563 participants
across 167 research labs (seminars, divisions, etc.)
That's a lot! How do you choose which research lab to visit?
This training is targeted at every member of the University,
so each year we make a list of research labs that we haven't
visited yet and choose randomly from each department.
Oh really. So that's how it works.
But isn't it not a good idea to gather many people in
one place during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Yes, so we sometimes carry out the training via Zoom
to prevent the potential spread of COVID-19
Oh, that's reassuring.
If the training can make each person become moreaware about harassment, I think it can lead topreventing harassment.
I should note that in the post-training
participant questionnaire, we get a lot of
feedback along the lines of "it's meaningful thatfaculty and students take the same training on a
research-lab (seminar) basis".

If you have any questions oropinions about Lab-Visit
Harassment Prevention
Training, feel free to contact
us!

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