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We have
gathered together on this page some of the authors referred
to within the 'Bullying - questions and answers' pages. The
list is alphabetical.
 Rowena
Arshad OBE has been Director of the Centre
for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland (CERES)
at The University of Edinburgh since 1994. She has been involved
in the area of equality (particularly race equality) since
1983 and has published widely in this area. More recently
she has been involved in research into the school experiences
of refugee children in Scotland and the experiences of minority
ethnic pupils. Rowena may be contacted by email.
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 Dr
Michael Boulton is a lecturer in Social and Developmental
Psychology at Keele University, England. He has published
many papers on children's social relationships, particularly
on friendship and bullying/aggression.
Dr Boulton may be contacted
by email.
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 Dr
Brendan Byrne has a long-standing interest in the subject
of bullying as teacher, guidance counsellor, researcher and
author. He currently works as a counsellor at the Coolmine
Community School, Dublin. He regularly conducts workshops
and seminars for school staff, parents' associations and young
people. He was a member of the Government Working Party which
drew up guidelines to counter bullying behaviour in schools.
His publications include: 'Coping With Bullying in Schools',
'Bullying: a community approach' and 'Young People and Bullying'.
He has also collaborated in the publication 'Countering Bullying
in the Workplace, Home and School - questions and answers'
published March 2004. He can be contacted by email.
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Alison Closs is Senior
Lecturer at Moray House School of Education at The University
of Edinburgh. In addition to her teaching commitments she
has been involved in educational research for a number of
years. Her research interests include SEN/Support for Learning,
the education of children with chronic and/or deteriorating
conditions and the school experiences of refugee pupils and
their parents in Scotland. In a recent study she investigated
the experiences of disabled children and adults in the former
Yugoslavia. She is also on the editorial team of the Scottish
Schools Ethos Network. Alison may be contacted by email.
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 Helen
Cowie is research professor in the European Institute of Health
and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey. She is also
director of the UK
Observatory for the Promotion of Non-Violence and Co-ordinator
of Violence in Schools Training Action (VISTA). She has published
many books and papers on peer relationships and support, bullying
in schools and in the workplace and the mental health of children
and young people.
For information about
her research interests and her publications please go
here. She may be contacted by email.
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 Dr
Candace Currie is Director of the Child
and Adolescent Health Research Unit at The University
of Edinburgh. Since the mid 1980s, she has led research projects
on the health of young people in Scotland. Since the late
1980s, she has been the Principal Investigator for Scotland
in a major international study of the Health Behaviour of
School-Aged Children (HBSC). Other research activities include
her role as international co-ordinator of a cross-national
study of adolescent smoking control. Dr Currie may be contacted
by email.
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 Simon
Hunter is a PhD student and research assistant based in the
Psychology Department at the University of Strathclyde in
Glasgow. He has published a number of papers on different
aspects of bullying including coping strategies and help seeking.
Simon may be contacted by email.
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 At
the time of this study, Alan McLean was Principal Psychologist
based at the Education Department Psychological Service in
the former Strathclyde Regional Council. His particular interests
in the area of bullying include: links between bullying and
motivation; the thinking processes and self-esteem of the
bully.
He can be contacted
at by email.
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 At
the time of the study, Andrew Mellor was a practising teacher
who had received funding from the Scottish Education Department
to carry out this project. He has been actively involved in
anti-bullying work in Scotland for almost 15 years, speaking
at conferences, writing for academic and non-academic audiences
and running in-service courses for teachers. He is now manager
of the Anti-Bullying Network, which is funded by the Scottish
Executive and based at The University of Edinburgh.
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 Professor
Pamela Munn is Dean of Moray House School of Education at
The University of Edinburgh. She is also Director of the Anti-Bullying
Network and the Scottish Schools Ethos Network, which are
both based at The University of Edinburgh. She has been involved
in research projects on bullying, discipline and truancy for
a number years. Among her many publications on these topics
are two major anti-bullying support packs which were sent
to all schools in Scotland and which have received enthusiastic
international attention. You may visit the website of Moray
House School of Education and also the website of the
Scottish
Schools Ethos Network.
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 Paul
Naylor is Senior Research Fellow/Programme Convenor Certificate
in Peer Support at Roehampton University of Surrey. His publications
and research interests cover a range of topics including:
peer support, bullying, racism and social psychology.
For information
about his publications and research go
here.
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Professor
Dan Olweus was the first person to carry out a thorough research
project on  bullying.
This large, long term study which began in Sweden in 1970,
was to provide the inspiration for many who felt that bullying
in schools should be challenged rather than accepted. Since
the 1970s, his work in this area had continued with force.
Indeed, in 1997-99, he led a group in a large project which
introduced the widely respected Olweus (anti-bullying) programme
to schools in Norway.
Professor
Olweus is based at the Research Centre for Health Promotion,
University of Bergen in Norway and can be contacted by email.
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 Professor
Astrid Mona O'Moore has been involved in extensive research
into bullying in Ireland. In 1993-94, she led the first nationwide
survey of bullying behaviour in Irish schools, which looked
at violence between pupils and also violence between pupils
and school staff. In a more recent survey, she examined workplace
bullying in schools. She is Co-ordinator of The Anti-Bullying
Centre, at the Department
of Education, Trinity College, The University of Dublin,
Dublin, The Republic of Ireland. Professor O'Moore may be
contacted by email.
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 Ken
Rigby is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Psychology
and an educational consultant at the University of South Australia.
He has been involved in major studies of bullying in Australia
and has published widely on this topic. For more information
about Dr Rigby and his work see the
bullying pages here. Ken may be contacted by e-mail.
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 Dr
Ian Rivers is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the College
of Ripon and York St John in York. He has published widely
on issues affecting lesbian and gay young people. The main
focus of his research is homophobic bullying. Dr Rivers may
be contacted by email.
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 Dr
Christian Salmivalli works at the Department of Psychology
in the University of Turku, Finland. Her research interests
include aggression in children and young people, bullying
in school and interventions to prevent it and also self-esteem
and social skills.
For more
information go
here.
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 Professor
Peter K Smith is Head of the Unit for School and Family Studies,
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, London. He has
been involved in bullying research for a number of years and
has published widely on this topic.
Peter Smith may be contacted
by email,
and the website of the Unit for School and Family Studies
at Goldsmiths College may be found
here.
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Dr Joan Stead is a researcher
at the Moray House School of Education at The University of
Edinburgh. Her recent research has focused on: the experiences
of refugee children in schools, school exclusion, the experiences
of Traveller children in schools and also social inclusion
of visually impaired pupils in mainstream schools. Joan may
be contacted by email.
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Dr Keith Sullivan is
based at the School
of Education at Victoria University of Wellington in New
Zealand. Over a number of years he has been involved in anti-bullying
research in New Zealand, Australia and the UK.
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