Last chance to register your contribution

The “call for abstracts” for WABF 2025 closed November 11.

Do you want to present, participate in a workshop, symposium, or with a poster at the world’s largest conference on bullying? Then you need to hurry. 

It is still possible to register contributions to WABF 2025, which is the world’s largest conference on bullying. The registration for abstracts or “Call for abstracts” is open, and it will be possible to register contributions to the conference until November 10. The actual registration for participation at the conference will open in November 18.

Closer connection between research and practice

The World Anti-Bullying Forum (WABF) will take place from June 10-13, 2025. Researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and youth-organizations from around the world will meet in Stavanger for a three-day exchange of the latest research in the field of bullying.

Hildegunn Fandrem. Photo: Jeanette Larsen.

During WABF 2025, it will be possible to participate with one (or more) of four different types of presentations: symposium, individual oral presentations, posters, and workshops, according to the conference’s scientific leader, Hildegunn Fandrem.

– Our goal is to ensure that research and practice are combined, and we strongly wish to have, for example, a symposium where both researchers and practitioners participate, says Fandrem.

Aiming to gather 600 participants

The National Center for Learning Environment and Behavioral Research in Education (Læringsmiljøsenteret) at the University of Stavanger is organizing the conference. According to Fandrem, the goal is to gather up to 600 participants from both Norway and abroad.

Janne Støen. Photo: Hege Mathisen.

The conference may be relevant for researchers, support services, school owners, school leaders, anti-bullying ombudsmen, the school psychology service, and others working in the education and leisure sector who are interested in the latest bullying research. It is not common for such conferences to address the field of practice as much as WABF 2025 does, according to Janne Støen, who leads the conference committee regarding contribution from practitioners.

– On WABF 2025, we hope to make visible the connection between researchers, decision-makers, the field of practice, and leisure activities, says Støen.

She underlines the importance of contributions from the educational sector.

– The goal is to highlight how Norwegian kindergartens and schools work to prevent bullying and exclusion.

Text: Maria Gilje Strand
Illustration photo: Elisabeth Tønnessen/UiS