Overview

• Professor Alice Sullivan’s follow-up review urges universities to sanction harassing behaviour against gender-critical academics and limit equality, diversity and inclusion departments to personnel duties.
• The report highlights how expanded EDI units have become bureaucratic levers for activists to delay or block gender-critical research through lengthy ethics approvals.
• Universities are urged to prepare for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, which takes effect on August 1 in England with an Office for Students complaints scheme overseen by Professor Arif Ahmed.
• It cites landmark cases including the £585,000 Office for Students fine against the University of Sussex over Kathleen Stock’s treatment and Jo Phoenix’s unfair dismissal tribunal win.
• The review documents coordinated harassment campaigns via LGBT+ networks that have disproportionately targeted lesbian scholars, leading to intimidation and self-censorship.