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.
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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.
Qualifications:
• BSc Nursing Science
• MSc Education in Professional Practice
• PhD Doctoral Thesis: Adult Experiences of Rape Disclosures in Nursing Practice: A phenomenological study, Northumbria University
Publications:
• Dosdale, C. Senior, E. Shotton, L. & Skarparis, K. (2024) Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence and Abuse – Approaches to Care for Health Professionals. Taylor & Francis group
• Dosdale C, and Skarparis K. (2021) ‘Supporting survivors of sexual violence and abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic’, British Journal of Nursing, 29 (20) pp.1159–63. Available at: DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2020.29.20.1159
Conferences:
• 12th Sept 2024: Royal College of Nursing International Nursing Research Conference 2024 ‘Healthcare students’ adherence to rape and sexual harassment myths’. (oral presentation – invited speaker)
• 11th Sept 2024: Royal College of Nursing International Nursing Research Conference 2024 ‘Adult experiences of sexual assault disclosures in nursing practice: A phenomenological study’. (oral presentation – invited speaker)
• 29th Nov 2023: Northumbria University’s Gendered Violence and Abuse Interdisciplinary Research Theme and Centre for Crime and Policing Conference. Violence Against Women and Girls: Research into Practice ‘Health practitioners and rape myths: Using research to inform practice’ (guest speaker)
• 23rd Feb 2023: RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery: Nursing Conference, ‘Nursing and Midwifery – Leading the World to Better Health’: Dublin Ireland (oral presentation)
• 29th July 2022: 3 Rivers Conference: North East Regional Learning and Teaching Conference 2022 ‘Engaging Students: Building Communities’ Supporting students to change cultures of gender-based violence on campus: Northumbria Against Sexual Violence. (Oral presentation – online)
• 8th July 2022: Sigma Global Nursing Excellence: Phi Mu Chapter conference. Innovation, Sustainability and diversity: the role of nurse leadership. Oxford Brookes University (oral presentation)
• 23rd July 2018: Centre for Research on Families, Life-course and Generations an Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Postgraduate conference and workshop – After #metoo: where next? (Oral presentation)
• 14th June 2017: Interpersonal Violence Interventions conference, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland (poster presentation)
Professional Awards:
• 2019 Northumbria University Student Led Teaching Awards; Teaching award – nominated
• 2021 Northumbria University Going the Extra Mile Award – Won
• 2021 Northumbria University Student Led Teaching Award – Special Recognition for Professional Placement Support – Won
• 2024 Northumbria University Student Led Teaching Awards – Nominated
Professional Contributions
Journal peer reviewer: Psychology of Violence / Women Studies International Forum / Health and Social Care in the Community
2010-2015: Steering group member – United Kingdom Association of Forensic Nurses
Member of Royal College of Nursing
2023-present: Board of Trustees – Rape Crisis Tyneside and Northumberland
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.
Qualifications:
• BSc Nursing Research
• PhD in Health Science. Doctoral Thesis: Exercise Intervention for People Surgically Treated for Lung Cancer
Publications:
Dosdale C, Senior E, Shotton L and Skarparis K. Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence and Abuse – Approaches to Care for Health Professionals. Routledge / Taylor & Francis group.
Naisby, J., Baker, K., Skarparis, K., Murdoch, J., Clark, A., Stirling, S., Turner, D., Swart, A. M., Hernon, J. M. & Saxton, J. M., (2024) The sustainability of exercise following colorectal surgery: a qualitative study of participants in the PREPARE-ABC trial. (Accepted/In press) In: Clinical Rehabilitation.
Collins, C. H. & Skarparis, K., The experiences of pregnancy and NHS maternity care for women who have been trafficked: a qualitative study. 1 Aug 2024, In: Midwifery. 135, p. 1-9 9 p., 104040.
Dosdale C and Skarparis K. (2020) ‘Supporting survivors of sexual violence and abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic’. British Journal of nursing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2020.29.20.1159
Ream E, Richardson A, Cox A, Skarparis K, Wiseman T, Forbes A. (2020) Telephone interventions for symptom management in adults with cancer. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
Collins C and Skarparis K. The impact of human trafficking in relation to maternity care: A literature review. (2020) Midwifery. 83:102645
Banerjee S, Semper K, Skarparis K, Naisby J, Lewis L, Cucato G,Mills R, Rochester M, Saxton J. (2019) Patient perspectives of vigorous intensity aerobic interval exercise prehabilitation prior to radical cystectomy: a qualitative focus group study. Disability and Rehabilitation. DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2019.1651907
Crandall K, Kearney N, Maguire R, Campbell A. (2018) ‘A qualitative study exploring the views, attitudes and beliefs of patients and health professionals towards exercise intervention for people who are surgically treated for lung cancer’. European Journal of Cancer Care. DOI: 10.1111/ecc.12828
Crandall K, Kearney N, Maguire R, Campbell A. (2014) ‘Exercise intervention for patients surgically treated for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC): A systematic review’. Surgical Oncology, 23 (1), pp. 17-30.
Conferences:
12th Sept 2024: Royal College of Nursing International Nursing Research Conference 2024 ‘Healthcare students’ adherence to rape and sexual harassment myths’. (invited speaker)
2016: Exercise intervention for people who are surgically treated for lung cancer. Exercise and cancer specialist workshop, Copenhagen
2014: Exercise is Medicine, Guest speaker, World cancer day, University of Surrey
2014: American College of Sports Medicine poster presentation. Exercise for people going through treatment for lung cancer. Florida.
Personal awards
2019 Northumbria University Student Led Teaching Awards; Teaching award – nominated