The We Act programme supports students to challenge harmful behaviours like bullying, harassment, and sexual misconduct through the development of knowledge, skills, and confidence as active bystanders.
News & Opportunities
Registration open for term 1 Active Bystander Skills courses
Our Active Bystander Skills course supports students to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to recognise and respond to harmful behaviours. Throughout the course, students learn safe and effective strategies to challenge harmful behaviours including bullying, harassment, sexual misconduct, racism, sexism, and LGBTQphobia.
The course is delivered as three interactive workshops, with students receiving a certificate upon completion and eligibility for two Warwick Award points.
Register for the Active Bystander Skills course
Our Active Bystander Skills course supports students to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to recognise and respond to harmful behaviours. Throughout the course, students learn safe and effective strategies to challenge harmful behaviours including bullying, harassment, sexual misconduct, racism, sexism, and LGBTQphobia.
The course is delivered as three interactive workshops, with students receiving a certificate upon completion and eligibility for two Warwick Award points.
Conduct Essentials micro-courses
Our series of micro-learning courses offers an introduction to key behaviours such as consent and anti-bullying. Each course takes less than 10 minutes to complete in your web browser, on a desktop or mobile.
All first-year UG and all PGT students are enrolled automatically into these courses and receive an invitation via text or email, though all students are encouraged to participate.
Student Conduct: What You Need to Know
All students at Warwick are required to complete the university鈥檚 "Student Conduct: What you need to know" course, which is designed to support a respectful, inclusive, and safe community for everyone.
This online course introduces the key principles of dignity, respect and our shared values that guide behaviour and interactions across our university. It includes practical guidance, reflective activities, and resources to help you understand your role in fostering a welcoming environment. The course also focuses on key issues of consent, relationships, and freedom of speech.
Foundations in Racial Equity Moodle
This resource is part of our community efforts to create inclusive learning environments at Warwick, where we cherish the rich diversity of our body of students and staff. This training supports students to develop their confidence to champion inclusion; a key skill for the future.
This training explores the historical origins of race and racism, its contemporary consequences, the human impact of racism, and taking action.
Students receive a certificate on completion, and eligibility for two
Warwick Award points.
Explore Freedom of Speech resources
Freedom of speech is a fundamental right that protects your ability to express ideas, opinions, and beliefs - even when they're challenging or unpopular. This page explains how that right applies at university, what the limits are, and how we balance free expression with respect for others in our diverse campus community.
Further opportunities:
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The initiative for Warwick Clubs and Societies.
- We deliver Active Bystander Skills training specific to WMS students each year in partnership with WMS. This training supports a wider programme of activity supporting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the school, including resources on Challenging Sexism in the medical profession.
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Our training sessions for Warwick Ambassadors equip students to represent Warwick鈥檚 values of equality, inclusion, and social responsibility in their role as ambassadors. Through interactive activities, ambassadors explore key initiatives and learn to confidently address challenging questions, reflecting Warwick鈥檚 commitment to a welcoming and inclusive community.
- Our WIHEA funded project developed the Active Bystander for PGRs in the Teaching Space course in collaboration with the Academic Development Centre (ADC).
Understanding Harmful Behaviours
Understanding Consent
Support Services
University Regulations, Policies and Processes
Report + Support (R+S) is the University's online, confidential reporting platform, accessible to all students, staff, and visitors. You can report anonymously or with your details. If you report with details, we will contact you within two university working days to arrange a chat. Nothing formal is triggered by making an initial report. We are a reporter-led service and won鈥檛 force someone to make a formal complaint if they don鈥檛 want to. We also signpost to external and internal support services.
Key contacts
If you are experiencing an emergency
- Community Safety: call 024 7652 2222
- Off-campus: call 999
For non-emergencies
- Community safety: call 024 7652 2083
- Off-campus: call 101
