The Consent is Everything workshops are a 90 minute interactive face-to-face session delivered to all 1st year undergraduate students on the topic of sexual consent.
The workshops are automatically scheduled into every 1st year students timetable and are deemed essential to ensure students have a safe and healthy university experience, and they know where to access support, or how signpost a peer to support, if needed.
Students Asked, We Delivered
In 2019, a student submitted a "Big Idea" on the NTSU platform asking that consent training be made compulsory for students. This submission broke the record number of "likes" the NTSU had seen that year and following this, Consent is Everything workshops were made mandatory for all 1st year undergraduates.
The Content
The workshops were created jointly between NTU and NTSU colleagues and NTU students. The content is based on two evidence based programmes and is regularly evaluated using feedback from students and facilitators every year.
The Consent is Everything workshops are interactive and engaging sessions that use activities and scenarios to practice understanding what consent is, giving and receiving it, and myth busting surrounding sexual violence.
The workshop also covers how students can support a friend who discloses an incident of sexual violence and what support is available within the University, the Students Union and within Nottinghamshire.
The Feedback
In the 2025/26 academic year, 264 workshops were delivered to over 6000 students; 69% of our 1st year undergraduate cohort.
The feedback from the students following the workshops showed that the majority of students were more aware of situations requiring consent, sexual assault myths and how to signpost another student to support.
The full details of the 25/26 student participant feedback survey can be seen below:
After attending the workshop... | % of students who strongly agree/agree |
I understand the factors that may impact someone's ability to give their consent | 97% |
I am more aware of the impact of sexual assault myths | 95% |
I feel confident in the ways I can give my consent | 97% |
I feel confident in ways to check I have someone else's consent | 97% |
I know how to signpost another student who discloses sexual harm | 95% |
I know how to respond to another student who discloses sexual harm | 96% |
Found their facilitators engaging | 91% |
Would recommend this workshop to other students | 88% |