Citation: Flood, M. (2025). Online violence prevention education for students. Queensland University of Technology, unpublished.
Note that these notes also may be downloaded in PDF here.
Articles
This new book:
- Explores young men’s online lives in the context of growing concerns about gender-based digital harms
- Offers nuanced insight into the complexities and tensions of young men’s positive and negative experiences online
- Proposes a framework for developing young men’s critical digital dispositions for gender-just online engagement
By Professor Amanda Keddie and Professor Michael Flood
Over years of guiding white-water rafting trips through the wild mountain rivers of southern Oregon, I have witnessed moments that still surge through my memory like the currents themselves. Recollections of black bears, curious otters, and mountain lions mingle with the thunder of helicopters scooping water from the river to battle nearby bushfires.
The State of the World’s Fathers 2023 (SOWF 2023) report reveals that thousands of women and men across the world are calling for care to be central to their lives, which can only be addressed by a fundamental overhaul of power structures, policies, and social norms around both paid and unpaid care work.
"10 Ways to Engage Men and Boys to Counter Backlash" is a fact sheet and guidance note for activists, academics and practitioners in gender equality, human rights, democracy and climate justice.
In the last two years, men’s health approaches have had growing visibility in the violence prevention field. Some men’s health advocates have argued for the value of a “men’s health lens” on domestic violence.
Men’s health approaches have both strengths and weaknesses in engaging men and boys in the prevention of domestic and sexual violence.
What actions are needed to drive the engagement of men and boys in combating online gender-based violence? In these notes prepared for a UN Women event in Seoul, Korea, Professor Flood offers recommendations for programming and research to drive the engagement of men and boys in reducing and preventing online gender-based violence
Programming:
Zero Tolerance and White Ribbon Scotland have published findings from their research on how to frame masculinity, gender equality, and men’s violence against women to change men’s thinking and encourage action.
Ending gender-based violence requires preventing it occurring in the first place.
Importantly, this requires work with men and boys, including to challenge the stereotypes and cultures that underpin the drivers of gender-based violence.
This brief is intended to outline policy, regulatory and legislative opportunities for promoting more positive and expansive forms of masculinity and working with men and boys to prevent gender-based violence.
Opportunities outlined in this brief include: