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Dr. Anna Louise Bull is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Social Justice at the University of York, where she joined in August 2021 after serving as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth (2016-2021). She is the co-founder and director of The 1752 Group, a prominent research and campaign organization addressing sexual harassment in higher education. Her work bridges academic research and practical policy interventions, with significant impact on institutional practices across the UK higher education sector.
Dr. Bull's research focuses on two primary interconnected areas: sexual harassment in higher education and class/gender inequalities in classical music education. Her monograph Class, Control, and Classical Music (Oxford University Press, 2019) received the British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Award in 2020. In her work on sexual misconduct, she has led multiple funded research projects examining institutional responses, power dynamics, and prevention strategies. Her research methodology combines sociological analysis with actionable policy recommendations that have directly influenced regulatory frameworks, including the Office for Students' E6 requirements.
Her recent publications demonstrate a consistent focus on institutional accountability, professional boundaries, and the experiences of postgraduate researchers facing harassment. The trend across her work shows increasing attention to systemic solutions, particularly around preventing 'pass the perpetrator' scenarios where staff move between institutions after misconduct findings. Her research increasingly emphasizes the intersection of race, gender, and power in academic settings, with particular attention to how Black and racially minoritized students experience professional boundaries differently.
Her scientific contributions have been recognized through:
- 2020 British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Award (joint winner)
- Times Higher Education 'Faces of 2021' recognition
- Multiple competitive research grants from ESRC, British Academy, and HEFCE
- Regular media commentary in The Guardian, BBC, and Nature
As a supervisor, Dr. Bull currently mentors PhD students Helen Dromey (since 2019) and Helen Coleman (since 2022), focusing on music education and inequalities. Her grant portfolio includes an ESRC New Investigator Award (£168,989) for 'Higher education after #MeToo' and several ESRC Impact Acceleration Awards addressing sexual misconduct prevention. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change and regularly reviews for major sociology and education journals.
Dr. Bull leads the Centre for Research in Education and Social Justice (CRESJ) research group at York and chairs a working group for the EDI Music Studies network. Her work with The 1752 Group has produced influential reports including 'Power in the Academy' and 'Silencing Students,' and she is currently developing a toolkit for Doctoral Deans with the UK Council for Graduate Education to address harassment of postgraduate researchers under the new E6 regulatory requirements.
