Drawing on existing evidence, including Universities UK's (UUK) own research, this guidance provides a solutions-focused call for action to universities – working with the entire university community – to address racial harassment and make our universities safe places to work and study. To support this, recommendations are put forward to support universities in delivering long-term change in institutional culture and behaviours. The guidance forms part of UUK’s ongoing programme of work to support the sector in addressing harassment in all forms.

The recommendations include practical steps that all university leaders can implement immediately:

• Publicly commit priority status to tackling racial harassment
• Engage directly with students and staff with lived experience of racial harassment
• Review current policies and procedures and develop new institution-wide strategies for tackling racial harassment
• Improve awareness and understanding of racism, racial harassment, white privilege and micro-aggressions among all staff and students, including through anti-racist training
• Ensure expected behaviours for online behaviour are clearly communicated to students and staff, as well as sanctions for breaches 
• Develop and introduce reporting systems for incidents of racial harassment
• Collect data on reports of incidents and share regularly with senior staff and governing bodies.