Accommodation
Student policies and procedures
Complaints Procedure
Girton College's procedure for dealing with comments, suggestions and complaints from students. Approved by Council. This policy applies for complaints received after 7 October 2022.
College Discrimination and Harassment Contacts:
- Professor Amy Donovan: cdhc@girton.cam.ac.uk
- Head of Welfare and Wellbeing: headofwelfare@girton.cam.ac.uk
- The Senior Tutor: senior.tutor@girton.cam.ac.uk
Revised Discipline Policy
This Revised Discipline Policy contains the updated College policies on Discipline, including Harassment, Discrimination and Bullying and Sexual Misconduct and Precautionary Action. It also includes the Rules of Behaviour and the Code of Conduct.
College Discrimination and Harassment Contacts:
- Professor Amy Donovan: cdhc@girton.cam.ac.uk
- Head of Welfare and Wellbeing: headofwelfare@girton.cam.ac.uk
- The Senior Tutor: senior.tutor@girton.cam.ac.uk
This document was approved by the College Council on 22 July 2022 and is effective for all relevant issues arising from 1 September 2022.
Drugs and Alcohol Policy
Welfare Checks Policy
Support and Assessing Readiness to Study
Procedures that Girton College follows when there are concerns about the readiness to study of one of its students, either undergraduate or postgraduate.
Last updated: December 2024
Previous student policies and procedures
Complaints Procedure
Girton College's procedure for dealing with comments, suggestions and complaints from students. Approved by Council. Issued by the Secretary to Council 15 July 2005.
This applies from 15 July 2005 to 6 October 2022. Please see 'Revised Complaints Procedure' for all relevant issues arising from 1 September 2022.
Document contains the following information:
- Overview
- Informal procedure
- Formal complaints procedure
- Matters falling outside the complaints procedure:
- Academic appeals
- Harassment
- College Policy
Student Discipline Procedure
The College Discrimination Harassment Contact is the Senior Tutor: senior.tutor@girton.cam.ac.uk
This applies from 1 October 2019 to 31 August 2022. Please see 'Revised Discipline Policy' for all relevant issues arising from 1 September 2022.
Student Harassment and Sexual Assault
This applies from 1 October 2019 to 31 August 2022. Please see 'Revised Discipline Policy' for all relevant issues arising from 1 September 2022.
Living in a community involves treating other individuals with respect, in a courteous and civilised way, whatever their sex or status. The College finds unacceptable any form of behaviour that amounts to harassment.
College accepts the University guidelines that the defining features of harassment are “that the behaviour is offensive to the recipient, is unwanted by the recipient and would be regarded as harassment by any reasonable person”.
The full College policy on harassment or sexual misconduct can be found below. The procedure outlined therein has been agreed by the Senior Tutors’ Committee. The College endorses the University's ‘Breaking the Silence campaign’, link provided below.
Any individual who considers that another’s behaviour (whosoever that person may be) falls into the category of harassment, including sexual or racial harassment, may consult their own or any of the Tutors, the College Nurses, or the JCR Welfare or Women’s Officer.
The College discrimination and harassment contact is the Senior Tutor, senior.tutor@girton.cam.ac.uk.