A School of Media & Public Affairs professor is leading an initiative to combat harassment of researchers through institutional policies and provide emotional and legal support for faculty researchers.
Rebekah Tromble, the director of the Data, Democracy and Politics Institute and an associate professor of media and public affairs, launched the Researcher Support Consortium, an initiative to provide guidelines for universities to deal with the harassment of researchers, earlier this month. Tromble said the consortium — which includes her and Kathleen Searles, a professor of political science at the University of South Carolina — aims to raise awareness of researcher harassment among the public and university administrators and provide schools with specific frameworks to support researchers’ well-being.
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