University hate convictions

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Hello,

I hope whoever is reading this is keeping well.

This is a request for information under the FOI Act.

Please can you answer the following questions for the academic years of: 2018/9, 2019/20, 2020/21:

1) Over this time period, how many people (undergraduate students and postgraduate students) applied to enroll to an undergraduate course at your university who was found (either by self-declaration or when prompted to disclose any criminal convictions) to have had a conviction for any sort of religious or racial hate crime incident or abuse. Can you provide the information in terms of individuals applying to enrol at your university to start at the beginning of these academic years. i.e. this includes those applying in, say December 2017, for enrollment in 2018/9. I want to be clear that I am asking about students who declare (or who have been found to have) a criminal conviction, through their application to the University.

I am defining 'religious hate crime or abuse' as any crime relating to verbal and physical abuse, bullying, threatening behaviour, online abuse or damage to property on the grounds of race or religion.

When answering Q1, please can you state the types of convictions disclosed (and how many times this type of conviction was disclosed).

2) How many of the people identified in Q1 were subsequently allocated to live in (university maintained/owned) residential settings (either in apartments or shared accommodation blocks on campus, for example) with students who identified as being from a 'BAME' background or a 'religious' background?

When answering Q2, please can you specify the type of residential setting, and whether the student who was allocated a house with the student convicted of a hate/religious crime identified as 'black' or 'Asian' or another ethnic minority, and the type of religion (i.e. 'christian' or 'Muslim') they identified as.

Best,

Yohannes

ACCESS I., University of Durham



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ACCESS I., University of Durham

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ACCESS I., University of Durham

Dear Yohannes Lowe

 

Thank you for your request for information from Durham University.
Colleagues have provided the information below in response to your
questions.

 

Please can you answer the following questions for the academic years of:
2018/9, 2019/20, 2020/21:

 

 1. Over this time period, how many people (undergraduate students and
postgraduate students) applied to enroll to an undergraduate course at
your university who was found (either by self-declaration or when
prompted to disclose any criminal convictions) to have had a
conviction for any sort of religious or racial hate crime incident or
abuse. Can you provide the information in terms of individuals
applying to enrol at your university to start at the beginning of
these academic years. i.e. this includes those applying in, say
December 2017, for enrollment in 2018/9. I want to be clear that I am
asking about students who declare (or who have been found to have) a
criminal conviction, through their application to the University.

 

I am defining 'religious hate crime or abuse' as any crime relating to
verbal and physical abuse, bullying, threatening behaviour, online abuse
or damage to property on the grounds of race or religion.

 

You clarified "I am asking about students who declare (or who have been
found to have) a criminal conviction, through their application to the
University." should have read instead: " I am asking about students who
declare (or who have been found to have) a criminal conviction, through
their application/enrollment to the University.”

 

When answering Q1, please can you state the types of convictions disclosed
(and how many times this type of conviction was disclosed).

 

Nil.

 

 2. How many of the people identified in Q1 were subsequently allocated to
live in (university maintained/owned) residential settings (either in
apartments or shared accommodation blocks on campus, for example) with
students who identified as being from a 'BAME' background or a
'religious' background?

 

When answering Q2, please can you specify the type of residential setting,
and whether the student who was allocated a house with the student
convicted of a hate/religious crime identified as 'black' or 'Asian' or
another ethnic minority, and the type of religion (i.e. 'christian' or
'Muslim') they identified as.

 

Not applicable.

 

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