A Bull
Biographic Data
| ID | 38069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Bull |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bull |
| SIGNATURE | BULL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2732-3240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Exploring implementation of the UK Misogyny in Music report’s recommendations to address gender inequalities in music education in England
In 2024, the Women and Equalities Select Committee in the UK Parliament published a report entitled Misogyny in Music . It included the recommendations that ‘music colleges, conservatoires and other educational settings need to do more to address the gendering of instruments, roles and genres and improve the visibility of and support for female role models’. While there is a dearth of policy levers available to implement this recommendation, this…
Who is experiencing faculty/staff–student sexual misconduct in UK higher education
Sexual misconduct perpetrated by staff/faculty in higher education towards students remains underexplored compared to perpetration by peers. The article examines the types of sexual misconduct students in UK higher education experience from staff and differences in experience across groups, drawing on findings from a non-representative survey of students in UK higher education (n=1,768). It opens up a methodological discussion around measuring po…
Sexual harassment as a cause of gender inequality in the UK film and television industry
Existing research has examined how gender inequality enables sexual harassment in the film and television industry but has not analysed sexual harassment as a cause of gender inequality. This article draws on interviews from 17 women who had experienced and/or reported sexual harassment/violence in the UK film and television industry since December 2017 to examine how sexual harassment caused gender inequalities. The career impacts of sexual hara…
Academic freedom in publishing on gender-based violence and harassment
The edited collection Sexual Misconduct in Academia was published in 2023 by Routledge-Taylor & Francis Group but a few months later the book was withdrawn from publication. This commentary and criticism piece reports on a webinar that discussed issues arising from this situation, aiming to shed light on the use of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) to silence authors publishing academic work about gender-based violence and …
Complacency and misogyny, or positive changes that add up to a movement? How the UK screen industries are addressing sexual harassment in the workplace
harassment in the UK screen industries since 2017
Legacies of #MeToo in the UK film and television industry: A qualitative study of workplace justice mechanisms to address sexual harassment
Gender inequalities in UK music higher education: The Role of Institutional Stratification
How do institutional gender regimes affect formal reporting processes for sexual harassment? A qualitative study of UK higher education
Formal complaints and disciplinary processes constitute a mandatory aspect of organizational responses for addressing sexual harassment in many jurisdictions. However, previous research has found that reporting parties are not well served by such processes. In particular, Ahmed (Complaint!; 2021) argues that the institutional climate that enables harassment or discrimination to occur—including its gendered dynamics—also shapes how complaints abou…
Exploring Implementation of Gender-Based Violence Policies in English Higher Education
Tackling gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) has become an increasingly urgent task for higher-education institutions (HEIs) globally. This article explores why HEIs take different approaches in the implementation of policies tackling GBVH. Through a comparative case-example approach that explores two contrasting HEIs in England, it focuses on an aspect of policy implementation that has been a particular challenge: formal report handling.…
Learning from survivors: Reporting parties' perspectives on how higher education institutions should address gender‐based violence and harassment
Tackling gender‐based violence and harassment (GBVH) is an essential step for addressing gender inequality. This article applies theories of student/survivor ‘voice’ to accounts from interviewees ( n = 35), analysing their perspectives on how higher education institutions (HEIs) should address this issue. Interviewees were current or former students in the United Kingdom who had disclosed or reported GBVH to their HEIs. The most urgent step that …
Data, disclosure and duties: Balancing privacy and safeguarding in the context of UK university student sexual misconduct complaints
The past decade has seen a marked shift in the regulatory landscape of UK higher education. Institutions are increasingly assuming responsibility for preventing campus sexual misconduct, and are responding to its occurrence through – amongst other things – codes of (mis)conduct, consent and/or active bystander training, and improved safety and security measures. They are also required to support victim-survivors in continuing with their education…
Unwilling trust: Unpacking the assumption of trust between sexual misconduct reporters and their institutions in UK higher education
This article explores trust in organisations by analysing interview data from students and staff who have disclosed or reported gender‐based violence and harassment (GBVH) to their higher education institution in the UK since 2016. GBVH contributes to gender inequality in higher education (HE), and increased reporting of it may not only help prevent GBVH, but also improve gender equality by helping to retain women and gender minorities within HE.…
Challenging Classical Music’s Genre Conventions: Findings from a Project on Youth Voice in Instrumental Education
This article explores classical music education through analysing findings from a project on embedding ‘youth voice’ within instrumental teaching and learning. Drawing on theorizations of classical music as a genre, I describe how the young people in this project saw classical music’s genre conventions as working against a youth voice approach. The article also outlines the ways in which youth voice was shaped through social relations in this spa…
Surveying ‘Dating Violence’ and Stalking Victimisation among Students at an English University: Findings and Methodological Reflections on Using a US Survey Instrument
Domestic abuse and stalking in higher education (HE) have been overlooked in research in comparison to sexual harassment and sexual violence. This article reports on survey data from 725 students at an English university using measures of stalking and ‘dating violence’—physical and psychological violence from an intimate partner—from a US survey instrument (the Administrator Researcher Campus Climate Collaborative (ARC3) survey). According to thi…
Coolness, Critique, and the Neoliberal Classical A Roundtable Review of Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era by Marianna Ritchey (Chicago, 2019) – Addendum
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Researching Students' Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Harassment: Reflections and Recommendations from Surveys of Three UK HEIs
In the US, 'campus climate surveys' are an established measure of the prevalence of, and students' awareness of and attitudes to sexual and gender-based violence and harassment (SGBVH). They are regularly carried out by universities to assist SGBVH prevention and responses. Such surveys have only recently started to be carried out within UK higher education institutions (HEIs) and the three authors of this article all independently undertook such…
Joining up well-being and sexual misconduct data and policy in HE: To stand in the gap' as a feminist approach
This article joins up evidence and policy relating to two linked concerns in higher education (HE) that are treated as unrelated: postgraduate research student (PGR) well-being, and staff sexual misconduct towards students. Against the standard methodology of systematic reviews, we build on feminist approaches to apply a 're-performance' approach to the review. Re-performance re-enacts established methods, contextualising previous analysis throug…
Coolness, Critique, and the Neoliberal Classical
Globalization, Capitalism, Identity, published by Equinox in
Catalysts and rationales for reporting staff sexual misconduct to UK higher education institutions
The majority of research on reporting of sexual violence and harassment has focused on reasons why women don’t report their experiences rather than examining why they do . This article takes this discussion into the higher education setting, drawing on interviews with 16 students and early career researchers in the UK who considered or attempted to report staff sexual misconduct to their institution and analysing their motivations for doing so. T…
Classical music as genre: Hierarchies of value within freelance classical musicians’ discourses
In music studies, genre theory has primarily been used to study popular music rather than classical music. This article demonstrates how genre theory can be applied to studying classical music production in order to understand how its value is negotiated and reproduced. Drawing on data from interviews with early-career female classical musicians in London, it explores discourses of classical music as a genre in order to understand how genre shape…
The Governance of Complaints in UK Higher Education: Critically Examining ‘Remedies’ for Staff Sexual Misconduct
Complaints processes and their governance in UK higher education (HE) have received little critical scrutiny, despite their expanded role under the increasing marketisation of HE. This article draws on interviews with students who attempted to make complaints of staff sexual misconduct to their HE institution. It outlines four groups among the interviewees according to the ‘remedy’ that they obtained, describing how most interviewees could not ac…
Students’ accounts of grooming and boundary-blurring behaviours by academic staff in UK higher education
Drawing on data from qualitative interviews with students who had attempted to report staff sexual misconduct to their higher education institutions in the UK, the article analyses interviewees’ experiences of ‘grooming’ and boundary-blurring behaviours from academic staff where the possibility for consent was affected by the power imbalances between staff and students. The term ‘boundary-blurring’ is used to describe behaviours that transgress (…
Class, Control, and Classical Music
Through an ethnographic study of young people playing and singing in classical music ensembles in the south of England, this book analyses why classical music in England is predominantly practiced by white middle-class people. It describes four ‘articulations’ or associations between the middle classes and classical music. Firstly, its repertoire requires formal modes of social organization that can be contrasted with the anti-pretentious, inform…
Making Power Visible: “Slow Activism” to Address Staff Sexual Misconduct in Higher Education
This article examines activism to address staff-to-student sexual misconduct in higher education in the United Kingdom from our perspective as founders and members of the research and lobby organization The 1752 Group. We argue that in order to tackle staff sexual misconduct in higher education, the problem has first to be made visible. We theorize this as "slow activism" and outline the activities that we and others have been engaged in toward t…
Who watches the watchmen? Evaluating evaluations of El Sistema
Within the growing field of publications on El Sistema and Sistema-inspired programmes around the world, a marked divide can be observed between the findings of critical academic studies and commissioned evaluations. Using evaluations of El Sistema in Venezuela and Aotearoa New Zealand as our principal case studies, we argue that this gulf can be explained at least partly by methodological problems in the way that some evaluations are carried out…
Introduction: Sociological Interrogations of the Turn to Character
Following Policy: A Network Ethnography of the UK Character Education Policy Community
Over the past 15 years, there has been a growing interest and investment in 'character' education across the UK political landscape. Alongside the activities of central government, character education has been promoted by a range of non-government actors in the UK and beyond, including philanthropic foundations, think tanks, education entrepreneurs, and academics. It is the presence of these actors and their relationship to, and influence on, UK …
Students’ accounts of grooming and boundary-blurring behaviours by academic staff in UK higher education
Drawing on data from qualitative interviews with students who had attempted to report staff sexual misconduct to their higher education institutions in the UK, the article analyses interviewees’ experiences of ‘grooming’ and boundary-blurring behaviours from academic staff where the possibility for consent was affected by the power imbalances between staff and students. The term ‘boundary-blurring’ is used to describe behaviours that transgress (…
Making Power Visible: “Slow Activism” to Address Staff Sexual Misconduct in Higher Education
This article examines activism to address staff-to-student sexual misconduct in higher education in the United Kingdom from our perspective as founders and members of the research and lobby organization The 1752 Group. We argue that in order to tackle staff sexual misconduct in higher education, the problem has first to be made visible. We theorize this as "slow activism" and outline the activities that we and others have been engaged in toward t…
Researching Students' Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Harassment: Reflections and Recommendations from Surveys of Three UK HEIs
In the US, 'campus climate surveys' are an established measure of the prevalence of, and students' awareness of and attitudes to sexual and gender-based violence and harassment (SGBVH). They are regularly carried out by universities to assist SGBVH prevention and responses. Such surveys have only recently started to be carried out within UK higher education institutions (HEIs) and the three authors of this article all independently undertook such…
Classical music as genre: Hierarchies of value within freelance classical musicians’ discourses
In music studies, genre theory has primarily been used to study popular music rather than classical music. This article demonstrates how genre theory can be applied to studying classical music production in order to understand how its value is negotiated and reproduced. Drawing on data from interviews with early-career female classical musicians in London, it explores discourses of classical music as a genre in order to understand how genre shape…
How do institutional gender regimes affect formal reporting processes for sexual harassment? A qualitative study of UK higher education
Formal complaints and disciplinary processes constitute a mandatory aspect of organizational responses for addressing sexual harassment in many jurisdictions. However, previous research has found that reporting parties are not well served by such processes. In particular, Ahmed (Complaint!; 2021) argues that the institutional climate that enables harassment or discrimination to occur—including its gendered dynamics—also shapes how complaints abou…
The Governance of Complaints in UK Higher Education: Critically Examining ‘Remedies’ for Staff Sexual Misconduct
Complaints processes and their governance in UK higher education (HE) have received little critical scrutiny, despite their expanded role under the increasing marketisation of HE. This article draws on interviews with students who attempted to make complaints of staff sexual misconduct to their HE institution. It outlines four groups among the interviewees according to the ‘remedy’ that they obtained, describing how most interviewees could not ac…
McDonald's Music' Versus 'Serious Music: How Production and Consumption Practices Help to Reproduce Class Inequality in the Classical Music Profession
This article draws on two empirical studies on contemporary engagements with classical music in the United Kingdom to shed light on the ways in which class inequalities are reproduced in practices of production and consumption. It discusses three ways in which this occurs. First, classical music was 'naturally' practiced and listened to in middle-class homes but this was misrecognised by musicians who labelled families as 'musical' rather than as…
Unwilling trust: Unpacking the assumption of trust between sexual misconduct reporters and their institutions in UK higher education
This article explores trust in organisations by analysing interview data from students and staff who have disclosed or reported gender‐based violence and harassment (GBVH) to their higher education institution in the UK since 2016. GBVH contributes to gender inequality in higher education (HE), and increased reporting of it may not only help prevent GBVH, but also improve gender equality by helping to retain women and gender minorities within HE.…
Joining up well-being and sexual misconduct data and policy in HE: To stand in the gap' as a feminist approach
This article joins up evidence and policy relating to two linked concerns in higher education (HE) that are treated as unrelated: postgraduate research student (PGR) well-being, and staff sexual misconduct towards students. Against the standard methodology of systematic reviews, we build on feminist approaches to apply a 're-performance' approach to the review. Re-performance re-enacts established methods, contextualising previous analysis throug…
Legacies of #MeToo in the UK film and television industry: A qualitative study of workplace justice mechanisms to address sexual harassment
Gendering the middle classes: The construction of conductors' authority in youth classical music groups
While many accounts of gendered embodiment focus on transformation, this article examines how normative gendered identifications are reinforced among middle-class young people playing classical music. Drawing on an ethnographic study of young people in youth orchestras and a youth choir in the south of England, it examines how the authority of the male conductor is constructed and experienced. It explores the construction of the charisma on which…
An end to Collective Identities? Political Culture and Voting Behaviour in Sesto San Giovanni and Erba
This paper addresses the question of the demise or resilience of political subcultures in Italy today, focusing on two areas, Sesto San Giovanni and Erba, characterized until recently by a socialist/communist subculture and a Catholic/interclassist one. The voting behaviour and political values of key social groups, above all industrial workers, in these two towns provides evidence of the persistence and indeed revival of political subcultures in…
An end to Collective Identities? Political Culture and Voting Behaviour in Sesto San Giovanni and Erba
This paper addresses the question of the demise or resilience of political subcultures in Italy today, focusing on two areas, Sesto San Giovanni and Erba, characterized until recently by a socialist/communist subculture and a Catholic/interclassist one. The voting behaviour and political values of key social groups, above all industrial workers, in these two towns provides evidence of the persistence and indeed revival of political subcultures in…
The South, the State and Economic Development: Remarks on Piero Bevilacqua's ‘Old and New in the Southern Question’
I am taking the opportunity created by the recent introduction of a section entitled ‘Contexts and Debates’ to put forward some considerations regarding Bevilacqua's contribution on the southern question, which appeared in the last number of this journal. By doing so, I hope to promote a stimulating debate on the South of Italy today and on the way forward for reversing the current process of de-industrialization in the region and the widening ga…
Local Identities and Territorial Politics in Italy and France
This article compares two areas, Sesto San Giovanni near Milan and V6nissieux near Lyon, which until recently were characterized by a working-class culture and a communist identity, which in turn stemmed from a concentration of large-scale heavy industry and the presence of powerful trade unions. Both areas have gone through a process of severe de-in-dustrialization and deep social change, accompanied by significant political developments. The ar…
Italy and the legacy of the Cold War
Gendering the middle classes: The construction of conductors' authority in youth classical music groups
While many accounts of gendered embodiment focus on transformation, this article examines how normative gendered identifications are reinforced among middle-class young people playing classical music. Drawing on an ethnographic study of young people in youth orchestras and a youth choir in the south of England, it examines how the authority of the male conductor is constructed and experienced. It explores the construction of the charisma on which…
Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s
McDonald's Music' Versus 'Serious Music: How Production and Consumption Practices Help to Reproduce Class Inequality in the Classical Music Profession
This article draws on two empirical studies on contemporary engagements with classical music in the United Kingdom to shed light on the ways in which class inequalities are reproduced in practices of production and consumption. It discusses three ways in which this occurs. First, classical music was 'naturally' practiced and listened to in middle-class homes but this was misrecognised by musicians who labelled families as 'musical' rather than as…
Who watches the watchmen? Evaluating evaluations of El Sistema
Within the growing field of publications on El Sistema and Sistema-inspired programmes around the world, a marked divide can be observed between the findings of critical academic studies and commissioned evaluations. Using evaluations of El Sistema in Venezuela and Aotearoa New Zealand as our principal case studies, we argue that this gulf can be explained at least partly by methodological problems in the way that some evaluations are carried out…
Following Policy: A Network Ethnography of the UK Character Education Policy Community
Over the past 15 years, there has been a growing interest and investment in 'character' education across the UK political landscape. Alongside the activities of central government, character education has been promoted by a range of non-government actors in the UK and beyond, including philanthropic foundations, think tanks, education entrepreneurs, and academics. It is the presence of these actors and their relationship to, and influence on, UK …
Introduction: Sociological Interrogations of the Turn to Character
Class, Control, and Classical Music
Through an ethnographic study of young people playing and singing in classical music ensembles in the south of England, this book analyses why classical music in England is predominantly practiced by white middle-class people. It describes four ‘articulations’ or associations between the middle classes and classical music. Firstly, its repertoire requires formal modes of social organization that can be contrasted with the anti-pretentious, inform…
Making Power Visible: “Slow Activism” to Address Staff Sexual Misconduct in Higher Education
This article examines activism to address staff-to-student sexual misconduct in higher education in the United Kingdom from our perspective as founders and members of the research and lobby organization The 1752 Group. We argue that in order to tackle staff sexual misconduct in higher education, the problem has first to be made visible. We theorize this as "slow activism" and outline the activities that we and others have been engaged in toward t…
Coolness, Critique, and the Neoliberal Classical
Globalization, Capitalism, Identity, published by Equinox in
Catalysts and rationales for reporting staff sexual misconduct to UK higher education institutions
The majority of research on reporting of sexual violence and harassment has focused on reasons why women don’t report their experiences rather than examining why they do . This article takes this discussion into the higher education setting, drawing on interviews with 16 students and early career researchers in the UK who considered or attempted to report staff sexual misconduct to their institution and analysing their motivations for doing so. T…
Classical music as genre: Hierarchies of value within freelance classical musicians’ discourses
In music studies, genre theory has primarily been used to study popular music rather than classical music. This article demonstrates how genre theory can be applied to studying classical music production in order to understand how its value is negotiated and reproduced. Drawing on data from interviews with early-career female classical musicians in London, it explores discourses of classical music as a genre in order to understand how genre shape…
The Governance of Complaints in UK Higher Education: Critically Examining ‘Remedies’ for Staff Sexual Misconduct
Complaints processes and their governance in UK higher education (HE) have received little critical scrutiny, despite their expanded role under the increasing marketisation of HE. This article draws on interviews with students who attempted to make complaints of staff sexual misconduct to their HE institution. It outlines four groups among the interviewees according to the ‘remedy’ that they obtained, describing how most interviewees could not ac…
Students’ accounts of grooming and boundary-blurring behaviours by academic staff in UK higher education
Drawing on data from qualitative interviews with students who had attempted to report staff sexual misconduct to their higher education institutions in the UK, the article analyses interviewees’ experiences of ‘grooming’ and boundary-blurring behaviours from academic staff where the possibility for consent was affected by the power imbalances between staff and students. The term ‘boundary-blurring’ is used to describe behaviours that transgress (…
Coolness, Critique, and the Neoliberal Classical A Roundtable Review of Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era by Marianna Ritchey (Chicago, 2019) – Addendum
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Researching Students' Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Harassment: Reflections and Recommendations from Surveys of Three UK HEIs
In the US, 'campus climate surveys' are an established measure of the prevalence of, and students' awareness of and attitudes to sexual and gender-based violence and harassment (SGBVH). They are regularly carried out by universities to assist SGBVH prevention and responses. Such surveys have only recently started to be carried out within UK higher education institutions (HEIs) and the three authors of this article all independently undertook such…
Joining up well-being and sexual misconduct data and policy in HE: To stand in the gap' as a feminist approach
This article joins up evidence and policy relating to two linked concerns in higher education (HE) that are treated as unrelated: postgraduate research student (PGR) well-being, and staff sexual misconduct towards students. Against the standard methodology of systematic reviews, we build on feminist approaches to apply a 're-performance' approach to the review. Re-performance re-enacts established methods, contextualising previous analysis throug…
Surveying ‘Dating Violence’ and Stalking Victimisation among Students at an English University: Findings and Methodological Reflections on Using a US Survey Instrument
Domestic abuse and stalking in higher education (HE) have been overlooked in research in comparison to sexual harassment and sexual violence. This article reports on survey data from 725 students at an English university using measures of stalking and ‘dating violence’—physical and psychological violence from an intimate partner—from a US survey instrument (the Administrator Researcher Campus Climate Collaborative (ARC3) survey). According to thi…
Learning from survivors: Reporting parties' perspectives on how higher education institutions should address gender‐based violence and harassment
Tackling gender‐based violence and harassment (GBVH) is an essential step for addressing gender inequality. This article applies theories of student/survivor ‘voice’ to accounts from interviewees ( n = 35), analysing their perspectives on how higher education institutions (HEIs) should address this issue. Interviewees were current or former students in the United Kingdom who had disclosed or reported GBVH to their HEIs. The most urgent step that …
Data, disclosure and duties: Balancing privacy and safeguarding in the context of UK university student sexual misconduct complaints
The past decade has seen a marked shift in the regulatory landscape of UK higher education. Institutions are increasingly assuming responsibility for preventing campus sexual misconduct, and are responding to its occurrence through – amongst other things – codes of (mis)conduct, consent and/or active bystander training, and improved safety and security measures. They are also required to support victim-survivors in continuing with their education…
Unwilling trust: Unpacking the assumption of trust between sexual misconduct reporters and their institutions in UK higher education
This article explores trust in organisations by analysing interview data from students and staff who have disclosed or reported gender‐based violence and harassment (GBVH) to their higher education institution in the UK since 2016. GBVH contributes to gender inequality in higher education (HE), and increased reporting of it may not only help prevent GBVH, but also improve gender equality by helping to retain women and gender minorities within HE.…
Challenging Classical Music’s Genre Conventions: Findings from a Project on Youth Voice in Instrumental Education
This article explores classical music education through analysing findings from a project on embedding ‘youth voice’ within instrumental teaching and learning. Drawing on theorizations of classical music as a genre, I describe how the young people in this project saw classical music’s genre conventions as working against a youth voice approach. The article also outlines the ways in which youth voice was shaped through social relations in this spa…
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Criminology (14 works) · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (12 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (11 works) · Harassment (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Public relations (9 works)