Dear Mr Benson,

I am writing in response to your recent request for the following information

under the Freedom of Information Act. Please accept my apologies for the slight
delay in providing this information, and for any inconvenience this may have
caused.

1. Does your institution provide any information or advice to students or

staff on any potential liability under Terrorism legislation which might result
from accessing materials for teaching or research? If so please provide copies
of any documents held which detail or refer to such information or advice.
No
2. Does your institution have any kind of procedure to review or assess
reading lists, module descriptors or other teaching materials which explicitly
or in practice considers questions of safety and risk under terrorism
legislation as part of its remit? For example does the institution have anything
similar or analogous to the 'module review process' established at Nottingham
University described here :
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=407122;
http://www.teachingterrorism.net/2009/08/03/nottingham-censorship-a-defence;
http://www.teachingterrorism.net/2009/08/06/is-vetting-at-nottingham-in-defence-
of-academic-freedom
If so please supply full details of this policy and procedure and advise when
and how it was decided upon and implemented.
No
3. Does your institution have any system, policy or procedure in place for
dealing with any potential actions taken by the authorities against the
institution, its students or staff under Terrorism legislation ? If so please
supply a copy of the policy and advise the date it was decided upon and
implemented.
No
4. Does your institution have any system, policy or procedure in place for
preventing violent extremism as recommended for example in the government
guidance document Promoting Good Campus Relations
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/tna/+/http://www.dius.gov.uk/publicati
ons/extremismhe.pdf
Please indicate what procedures or policy exist and advise when it was decided
upon and implemented, and provide copies of any documents held which detail or
refer to such policy or procedures.
Information Services Regulations
(http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/regulations/isregs/)are in the process of being
amended to take into account issues around inciting hatred, and will include the
following wording:
3.13 Information Services users must not use the University network to create or
display information that could give offence to other reasonably minded people,
including material calculated to incite hatred of any particular individual(s)
or racial or religious groups. This applies both to textual and graphical
material. If, as part of your research work you do need to create or display
material that reasonably minded people would find offensive you must ensure that
your Head of Department is made aware of your research requirements and that the
Director of Information Services has similarly been informed.
A working group on the prevention of terrorism has recently been established,
and this group has brought together various Heads of Department and Service and
also considered any wider implications, as well as liaising with the local
Police experts. In general anti-terrorism is embedded within the departmental
risk management process and therefore each department has considered the
potential implications for its own activities and actively manages it on a
devolved basis.
If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may ask the University to
conduct a review of its decision. To do this, please contact the Records
Manager in writing (including by fax, letter or email), describe the original
request, explain your grounds for dissatisfaction, and include an address for
correspondence. When the review process has been completed, if you are still
dissatisfied, you may ask the Information Commissioner to intervene.
Yours sincerely,
Julie Archer

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Rheolwr Cofnodion / Records Manager
Llyfrgell Thomas Parry Library
Prifysgol Aberystwyth / Aberystwyth University
Llanbadarn Fawr
Aberystwyth
SY23 3AS
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infocompliance@aber.ac.uk
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