Moral harassment against students in a public institution: the case of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel)

Abstract

Since 2019, UFPel's "Programa de Educação Tutorial Diversidade e Tolerância" (PET-DT) has developed a study on moral and sexual harassment in the academic space. The objective of the research is to verify whether students, teachers, graduates, administrative technicians and public workers experienced situations of moral and/or sexual harassment within the institution, thinking about what physical and mental disorders such violence would have caused in the victims. The answers were built in a Google form, which was published on the social networks of PET-DT. To date, 576 people have answered the questionnaire anonymously, the vast majority being women (74.3%). For this article, only situations of moral harassment will be focused, which is the most common, as pointed out in the answers, which will be analyzed in the text.