Tackling Bullying in School BPS Seminar Series 2 Keele | Page 2

Draft program for Seminar 2: Theoretical approaches to understanding bullying in
schools.
10.00: Registration and refreshments
10.30: Welcome – Prof Michael Murray (Head of School, School of Psychology, Keele
University) and Dr Claire Fox (Seminar Series Organiser)
10.45:
Prof Peter Smith (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Dr Anke Görzig
(University of West London): Cyberbullying in schools: Cross-cultural issues.
11.15:
Prof Dorothy Espelage (University of Florida): Understanding and preventing
school-based bullying from a Social-Ecological Framework
11.45: BREAK
12.00: Dr Jun Sung Hong (Wayne State University): Racial difference in family level
factors related to bullying and peer victimization in the United States.
12.30:
Prof Adam Rutland (Goldsmiths, University of London): Intergroup social exclusion:
Studying the development of social and moral reasoning.
13.00:
LUNCH and Poster Session (Anna Cook, University of Surrey; Nicola Ralph, Keele
University; Nataly Kaufman, IoE UCL; Nathalie Noret, York St John University)
14.00:
Dr Sally Palmer (Institute of Education, UCL) and Dr Nicola Abbott (Canterbury
Christ Church University): Understanding bystander responses to bias-based
bullying: A developmental intergroup approach.
14:30
Prof Judy Hutchings (Bangor University): Understanding bullying behaviour and
the role of the bystander: Evidence from the KiVa school based anti-bullying
programme.
15.00 BREAK
15.15: Panel Discussion (Chair – Prof John Archer, UCLAN)
16.00: END