Social Safety at Radboud University
Social safety consists of a safe environment in which cooperation, equality, openness and consideration for each other are important. Together, we create a socially safe environment. Students and staff can be themselves and treat each other respectfully regardless of origin, belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, role or position.
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Do you experience undesirable behaviour?
Undesirable behaviour consists of behaviour that hinders you in your work or studies. Examples include constantly interrupting and implicit social exclusion such as not greeting. What is undesirable is primarily up to you. What is undesirable for one person may not be for another. The offender may not be aware of the effect of the behaviour. This is why giving constructive feedback is important.
When behaviour crosses the boundary of human dignity, it is considered transgressive behaviour. Radboud University takes action against transgressive behaviour such as bullying, gossiping, discrimination, (sexual) intimidation, and abuse of power or dependence. We therefore ask you to report it.
Address it
If you have concerns about social safety or encounter undesirable behaviour, do not keep it to yourself, but make it discussable, also if you are a bystander. Address a person who is bothering you about their behaviour and offer feedback. If that is difficult or even impossible, get help.
We are here for you
There are various professionals to whom you can turn in an accessible and confidential way. They offer advice and support and look together with you at how to stop the undesirable behaviour.
As an employee of Radboud University, you can read how to handle undesirable behaviour in the work environment.
Social safety training offer
Radboud University aims for everyone to be able to count on a safe base for work or study and, if necessary, to feel safe to have difficult or critical conversations. Therefore, the university has a wide range of e-learnings, workshops and trainings that help you to recognize socially unsafe situations, respond adequately to undesirable behaviour or to actively listen. Check out the training offer for employees in gROW. For students, this offer is under development.
Codes of conduct and regulations on conduct & integrity
Radboud University pursues a climate of academic freedom, in which open discussion, freedom of mind, thought and speech are paramount. However, there are frameworks for integrity and professional conduct in the form of (behavioural) codes and regulations, with the regulations being legally binding.