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Associate Professor Loretta Trickett, Nottingham Law School, was part of the team involved in making misogyny a hate crime in Nottinghamshire. Here she reacts to the latest news from the Law Commission that misogyny will not be included in hate crime laws.

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Associate Professor Loretta Trickett from Nottingham Law School reacts to the government announcement of a new strategy to tackle street harassment.

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2021/07/expert-blog-street-harassment-strategy-is-welcome,-as-long-as-those-who-abuse-women-and-girls-are-dealt-with-swiftly

The national roll-out of a police requirement to record data on hate crimes motivated by misogyny has been welcomed by a pioneering team of campaigning researchers at Nottingham’s two universities and the Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Paddy Tipping.

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2021/03/misogyny-research-pioneers-hail-new-police-action-to-record-harassment-of-women

There has been an outpouring of grief, anger and further sharing of stories by women expressing how they feel unsafe in public spaces due to harassment by men in the aftermath of the abduction and murder of Sarah Everard. Associate Professor Loretta Trickett, Nottingham Law School, and Professor Louise Mullany, University of Nottingham, discuss what this tells us about women’s safety in our current society.

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2021/03/expert-opinion-misogyny-against-women-and-girls-is-everyones-responsibility,-and-government-responses-do-not-go-far-enough

A new resource to teach young people about the impact of street harassment on women and girls has been launched by a team involved in the decision to make misogyny a hate crime in Nottinghamshire.

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2020/09/educational-resource-to-tackle-street-harassment-created-by-misogyny-hate-crime-team

A new cartoon-style educational tool to help tackle the harassment of women and girls has been unveiled by experts from Nottingham’s two universities as part of a unique zero-tolerance strategy being pioneered throughout Nottinghamshire.

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2020/07/a-comic-strip-to-fight-misogyny-hate-crime

People in Nottinghamshire will not tolerate misogyny hate crime and a policy introduced in 2016 is already shifting the attitudes of both victims and potential perpetrators, according to a new report.

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2018/07/overwhelming-public-support-for-misogyny-hate-crime-policy

A national survey of more than 4,000 UK workers has revealed that while employee engagement has seen its first rise since the pandemic - climbing 3% to an average of 65% - inequalities continue to divide the workforce.

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2025/05/employee-engagement-on-the-rise-but-workforce-inequalities-persist,-warns-national-survey

Thousands of people who are born deafblind will understand live conversations for the first time thanks to new research into smart textiles being developed by Nottingham Trent University (NTU).

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2025/04/deafblind-people-to-understand-live-conversations-thanks-to-e-textiles-research

Students on our MEng Civil Engineering Design and Construction course alighted at the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) depot as part of their final year project to develop the “tram stop of the future”.

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