About us
Glasshouse Training and Consultancy works with businesses that are ready to improve their organisational culture. Our team are experts on sexual violence and abuse, and have extensive experience teaching and facilitating learning. These skills will ensure we work collaboratively with your business to make the environment safe from sexual harassment, misconduct, and other disrespectful and inappropriate behaviours that will not be tolerated.
We can work with the leadership team to ensure that these values are implemented, and led by example, to cultivate a workplace culture that values respectful behaviours and relationships.
Our goal in working with organisations is to provide them with the tools to address sexual assault, misconduct, and abuse. We offer sexual harassment training for the workforce, but we don’t just talk about sexual harassment in our training; we offer to work with organisations on a bespoke scale to create a healthy culture that includes open dialogue and inclusion for all employees, developing plans for the needs of individual organisations by exploring and building on their current culture.
We offer bespoke training covering sexual violence and harassment, active bystander training, and trauma informed approaches for professionals, organisations, businesses, schools, and the third sector. We have more training coming soon.
When discussing or dealing with sexual harassment it is not unusual for you, or others in your organisation to show unconscious bias and/or feel underprepared or uncomfortable. We aim to provide your employees a safe space to explore and challenge many misconceptions associated with sexual violence and/or inappropriate behaviours. With our training, you are positively building an inclusive space where everyone feels safe. You will help to shift mindsets, prevent sexual harassment and support survivors effectively.
Our team
Claire Dosdale PhD. (Director)
Claire is a nurse with over 22 years of experience. She has worked in education for over 13 years and is an experienced educator. She has skills in teaching sensitive topics and conflict resolution. In her main role, Claire is an Assistant Professor in adult nursing at a university based in the North East of England and specialises in sexual violence and abuse. Her research focuses on sexual harassment in higher education, supporting survivors of sexual violence in healthcare, sexual harassment in the workplace, gendered violence, trauma informed approaches, and bystander training in order to contribute to eradicating violence against women and girls. She presents nationally and internationally on supporting survivors of sexual violence and abuse, sexual harassment, and rape myths / victim blaming. She also sits on the board of trustees for Rape Crisis North Tyneside and Northumberland. If you would like to donate to RCTN please do so here.
Claire has a wealth of experience in public health, behaviour change, leadership (particularly women in leadership) and workforce development. As part of her role she regularly carries out fitness to practise investigations and mediation.
Katy Skarparis PhD. (Director)
Katy is an experienced educator and has been lecturing for the past 12 years. She is currently an Assistant Professor at a university based in the North East of England and specialises in human behaviour change with a specialist interest in sexual violence and abuse. She is particularly interested in helping people make positive changes towards gaining better health – both physical and mental.
Katy has training in Motivational Interviewing (MI) to help individuals make personal changes but has also used this to train groups in how to utilise the methods of MI within their practice – for example how to help support others they are working with to make changes. This technique is often used whilst coaching employees to step towards their personal and organisational goals and progress in a healthy way.
The majority of her research now sits within the field of sexual violence, harassment and human trafficking. She has developed and conducted training in this area for both students and professionals.