 Consent workshops are being held in DCU this week to promote sexual health education. According to a survey and the Irish examiner, most third-level students experience sexual harassment. We spoke to clubs officer Thomas Dorian who describes what goes on in the smart consent workshops here in DCU. In our consent workshops, this is our second year we're doing them. We kind of take students, we discuss what is consent, different forms of consent, so verbal, non-verbal, physical and then we talk about different scenarios. The NUI Galway Smart Consent Research Team conducted a survey of 2150 students of which 71% of women and 63% of men were unhappy with the level of sexual health education they were taught at school. Dr Tracy Harrington, lecturer in Children's and General Nursing, describes the topics covered in the smart consent workshops and why she thinks it's important for all students to be taught about consent. I was asking some of the students the other day and they said because they're not covering to the second level in secondary, they don't even do enough in-depth about the sex ed. I hope that it'll open the conversation, that they'll be more comfortable. The one thing that came out from Monday's session was that students feel really uncomfortable asking for consent or, you know, saying, do you mind if we stop here now? So if we can get rid of that kind of uncomfortableness and open the conversation, it'll open communication between everybody. It'll be much safer environment for everybody. Ashton Fagan, VP for Welfare and Equality shares her opinions on consent. We need to keep educating people. So we've been rolling out these smart consent workshops here in DCU over the last week. We've ran 18 workshops so far. It's a national issue at the minute and it's something that I think most student unions and USI and the government are working on. So as a union, we're very, very passionate about this topic and we'll be continuing to, as I said, embedding it through everything we do and especially coming up to Sexual Health Week, which will be in week two. We've re-rounded it to kiss week, keeping it safe and sexy. We also asked one of the students who participated in the workshops on his opinions on consent. I do think that it's important for students to attend the workshops and to see misconceptions about the whole term of consent because people have different meanings for it and even by law there's different definitions for consent. So to get an overall understanding it's important that students attend.