A Brief Overview of Project Activities:

RECENT ACTIVITIES
  1. Completed a grant-funded follow-up study with participants from the 2012-13 pilot cohort.
  2. Development of a database of over 3000 related scholarly literature items to support analytical and dissemination activities.

CURRENT/ONGOING ACTIVITIES
  1. Published Advancing Sexual Consent and Agential Practices in Higher Education: Toward a New Community of Practice (Routledge, 2024), a scholar-practitioner text with chapters written by Drs. Laker & Boas alongside guest chapters and short "stories from the field" contributions reporting on this research and its implications.
  2. Conducting follow-up interviews (video-based) with participants from 2012-2017 (now 28-37 years old)
  3. Allied Project conducting video-based interviews with student peer educators and advocates engaged in work on gender-based violence prevention and/or response at their respective postsecondary institutions in the U.S. and Canada.
  4. Consulting and Training engagements with several postsecondary institutions and professional organizations.

UPCOMING/FUTURE ACTIVITIES
  1. Launching an allied study, "Raising Consent: Parents of College Students Share Their Sexual Consent Experiences and Perspectives" during the 2023-24 academic year (IRB-approved).
  2. Continuing our ConsentStories™ study with college students representing a diversity of gender and sexuality identities and sexual practices.
  3. Preparing Grant Applications to expand the study.
  4. Organizing a a national community of practice to support consent education programs.
  5. Developing a ConsentStories™ study with couples and poly partners.
  6. Development of Social Action Theater Scripts and Peer Education Curricula.


Sample Consent Story Interview Excerpts