Academic ‘prepared to take legal action’ after gender lecture disrupted at Bristol University

Prof Alice Sullivan claims university failed to protect her right to freedom of expression after protest at event

A UK university faces the prospect of legal action over claims it failed to protect the right to freedom of expression of an academic who was invited to give a lecture on sex and gender.

Prof Alice Sullivan has written to the University of Bristol and the university regulator the Office for Students (OfS) to complain after her talk was disrupted by protesters. She told the BBC some people who had wanted to attend had stayed away because they felt intimidated and that reasonable steps could have been taken to prevent that.