It sounds reasonable but how would it help to know the identity of the person making such homophobic (or other) comments? Unless we are thinking on some subsequent educational training, I don't see what it would solve. Filtering the feedback that lecturer gets is indeed necessary
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In many ways, I might know who left it regardless. Or worse yet, I might have 3 people who fit the bill and retaliate against all 3. It's very tricky.
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Yes, it is very tricky! That was my whole point
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Also, to be fair, students raise all their concerns in class, and especially to the TAing PhD students, if in any way interactive like a practical class or one with seminars, almost always and without exception in my experience. So again you know who is complaining about what.
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Obvi, my experiences and not universal and teaching/TAing 6 courses a year for 4 years at BBK is again not a universal experience, but I genuinely do not believe there is such a thing as anonymous when it's students you spend hours with. You just know who writes what if you care.
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And even if you don't know who writes what, the way people write can give things away about their personality or minority (or otherwise) status. Anonymity in these contexts to me at least seems like a fig leaf. You cannot really appeal to it.
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To truly protect students you must actually have proper rules and training in place not just say "oh hey it's anonymised so it's unbiased".
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That is absolutely true! Besides, they are bloody adults so perhaps we should not be that much concerned with anonymity but the fairness.
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