Wednesday, June 11

Day 1

08:00 - 09:00

Registration

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09:00 - 10:00

Opening Ceremony

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10:00 - 10:45

Keynote: Anthony Peguero

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11:00 - 12:30

Symposium

Lysefjorden A:
Creating a safe and sound learning environment in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings- Perspectives from project leaders, supervisors, and participants in a national professional development project in Norway, and as an inspiration for a small-scale research project.

Ann Kristin Hansen Andersen, Ingrid Midteide Løkken, Mette Johannessen, Marianne Torve Martinsen, Wibeke Michaelsen, Hanne Mette Vindvik, Tina Øwre

Lysefjorden B:

Exploring the Impact of Smartphone Bans on Cyberbullying, Digital Literacy and Children’s Rights

Megan Reynolds, Sinan Asci, James O'Higgins Norman, Maryam Esfandiari, Sophie Butler

Uburen:

Proactive and Comprehensive Approaches to Anti-Bullying in Schools: Strategies, Implementation, and Outcomes

Britt Eva Gunvordal, Cecilie Heskestad, Hege Røen, Tor Kristian Ervik

Snønuten:

Beyond Borders: Colorblind Racism and the Global Reach of Racist Bullying in Schools

Anne Williford, Layal Wiltgren, Anthony Peguero, Andrew Webb, Dorothy Espelage

Kaldefjell:

Systematic approaches to understanding cyberbullying from different angles: contexts, consequences, and moderators

Meghmala Mukherjee, Luisa Morello, Luca Laszlo, Ebru Ozbek, Serap Keles

Jæren:

Innovative Approaches for New Challenges: Rethinking Concepts and Methods in Bullying and Cyberbullying Research

Annalisa Guarini, Alberto Amadori, Marina Camodeca, Carlo Marinoni, Laura Menabò, Barbara Spears

Synesvarden:

'Different together' - a postcolonial understanding of bullying

Helle Raboll Hansen, Karen Mathiesen, Tora Petersen, Ída Björg Unnarsdóttir

Vindafjorden:

Predictors and Outcomes of Defending, Being defended and Friendships: A Focus on Victimization

Daniel Graf, Paula García-Carrera, Claire Garandeau, Christina Salmivalli, Daniela Chavez

Preikestolen:

The Omni model - a mindset and tools that helps to create safe and good growing up environments

Anita Lervoll, Gøril Figenschou, Ann Tone Håkonsen, Elisabeth Maarnes, Jon Halvdan Lenning, Lasse Knutsen, Tonje Koskinen

Kjerag:

Bullying Intervention by Peers and Adults: Should We Promote the Good or Punish the Bad?

Karyn Healy, Laura Lambe, Lydia Laninga-Wijnen, Wendy Craig, Liu Yang

Vårlivarden:

Peer-Aggression among Young Children: Nature and Potential for Intervention

Sophie Chaput-Langlois, Claire Monks, Seung ha Lee, Katie Rix

Mastrafjorden A:

Dan Olweus: Life and Achievements

Erling Roland, Peter Smith, Vassiliki Artinopoulou, Zhang Wenxin, Kyrre Breivik, Susan Limber, Yuichi Toda

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12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

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13:30 - 14:15

Keynote: Tracy Vaillancourt

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14:15 - 14:30

Break

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14:30 - 16:00

Individual Oral Presentations (Thematic Sessions)

Snønuten:

What Guidance Do We Have? Bullying State Laws in the UK
Katherine Graves

Supporting the Front Line: capacity building and professional support in schools
Andrea Synnøve Eikset, Hilde Brendehaug Hugaas, Sissel Kulild

Crafting and Implementing a Sustainable School Anti Bullying Policy: It Takes a Village
Neena David

The transformation from a sense of urgency to a state of a safe and including community for children. During the last 5 years in the Norwegian municipality of Drangedal, the children’s learning environment as a whole and the conditions for being exposed to bullying have been in an ongoing and systematic change for the better. What did we do?
Frank Rafaelsen

A Logic Model Approach to Abu Dhabi’s Comprehensive School Anti-Bullying Strategy
Alfan Alketbi

Kaldefjell:

Trauma-Informed Bullying Prevention Methodology Project in a Hungarian Foster Care Home
Gabriella Dr. Kulcsár

Blaming Myself or My Actions? Unpacking Attribution Styles and Their Impact on Chinese American Youth’s Mental Health
Meg Stomski

Legal tools to tackle bullying and cyberbullying
Tamás Pongó

Cyberbullying Among Adolescents in Norway 2014-2016: Time Trends and Factors Associated with Perpetration and Victimization
Tore Bonsaksen

Jæren:

The impact of tailored mentoring on bullying prevalence: Is there a mediating effect of universal actions?
Marie-Pier Larose

Professional-family collaboration in creating a safe play and learning environment in Nordic countries: A scoping review
Dziuginta Baraldsnes

Empowering Bystanders: Enhancing Direct Intervention in Cyberbullying with EmojiGen
Jungup Lee

School Belonging: an important but neglected construct?
Catherine Culbert, Peter Smith, Susanne Robinson

Teachers’ perceived effectiveness of a whole-school approach anti-bullying program and their practices for bullying prevention and intervening
Dziuginta Baraldsnes

Synesvarden:

What works in hate speech intervention and prevention in schools? Results of a systematic review of school-based programs to deal with hate speech
Julia Kansok-Dusche

Bullying Victimization and Internalizing Problems of Children with Disabilities: The Moderating Role of Family Strengths
Chad Rose

Latent Profile Analysis of Bullying Involvement and Outcomes Amongst Youth with Learning Disabilities
Sarah Manchanda

Spiritually-enriched psychoeducation for the development of social emotional and intercultural skills and reducing bullying in Catechetical Schools
Olga Solomontos-Kountouri

The Role of Bullying and Adult Responses in School Absenteeism Among Autistic Students - A Grounded Theory
Isabella Sasso

Vårlivarden:

Does Onset of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents Increase Risk of Victimization One Year Later?
Jonas Bjärehed, Marlene Bjärehed

Unsafe Places in School: Children's Perspectives
Layal Wiltgren

Surprising partners: Teachers’ contribution to school bullying
Vered Zioni-Koren

Bullying, School Well-Being and School Absence: Investigating Links and Trajectories through Pupils' Own Narratives
Kjersti Stabell Wiggen, Selma Therese Lyng, Øyunn Syrstad

Kjerag:

A recommendation for more mixed methods research
Peter Smith

Bullying Figurations: An Eliasian Pespective on the Civilizing Process
Andrew Webb

Centering Children’s Voices from an Empirical Children’s Rights Perspective
Marijke Van Buggenhout, Eva Dierickx, Els Dumortier

Early adolescent ACEs and associations with bullying perpetration and victimization, and peer relationship outcomes during late adolescence
Gabriel Merrin

The association between school contribution to preventing bullying and student learning outcome
Christian Wendelborg, Ole Henning Nyhus, Joakim Caspersen, Jon Marius Vaag Iversen

Preikestolen:

Exploring Moral Processing in Cyberbullying
Albara Mishkes

The “collective we” in mainstream secondary schools in Norway. What do students, teachers and head teachers think about the “collective-we”? What do
they do to foster it?
Nina Grini

School-Level Association Between Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Competencies and Bullying Involvement: A Four-Year Longitudinal Study
Chunyan Yang

Following-up actions after bulling – a single case study in Norway
Anna Lange Moi

Implementation matters – KiVa Program implementation and results from 2022 to 2024, a three-year cohort-longitudinal study.
Kristiina Treial

Vindafjorden:

The Upstander Network facing Bullying and Cyberbullying
Fernando Domínguez-Hernández, Ana Toledo Del Cerro

Of coaches and teammates: How motivational climate in sport shapes youth athletes’ anti-bullying behavior
Elisa Bisagno

To ignore, to join in, or to intervene? Contextual and individual factors influencing cyber bystanders’ response to cyberbullying incidents.
Nikolett Arato

Cognitive and Affective Empathy Predict Later Involvement in Bullying as Victims, Bullies and Bully-Victims? A Secondary Data Analysis of the Stand Together Trial
Katerina Romanova

National level digital skills and cyberbullying involvement
Dóra Eszter Varnai

Uburen:

Children’s perspectives on school bullying: theater as a research tool
Rozemarijn Van Der Ploeg

Teacher bullying victimization and the moderating effects of school climate
Jordan Kerere

School Bullying and Suicidality: A Meta-Analytic Examination
Chiaki Konishi

CBT with Friends
Åsa Gustafsson

The role of humour in bullying dynamics and coping strategies: A social network analysis
Xiaowen Jiang

Lysefjorden B:

Acceptance struggles and life trajectories for LGBTQI+ young people experiencing homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic bullying at school
Camilla Forsberg

Deadnaming and misgendering as emotional triggers in young people's experiences of transphobic bullying
Paul Horton

What is a safe and good learning environment in a diverse classroom? Bias-based bullying and religious education in Norwegian schools.
Geir Skeie

Preventing bullying through subject teaching – how do they do it?
Frode Restad

No hate against Sámi people – Youth Councils in Norway take a stand against hate speech and discrimination
Ida Berge, Ingrid Aspelund

Lysefjorden A:

Bullying prevention in kindergarten - how to use puppets as playfull learning tool
Live Herheim

Team Skyfritt – the implementation of a support team in the municipality of Bergen working with bullying prevention in school and kindergarten.
Camilla Blokhus Svensson, Petrin Listou Kvam

Childrens Voices on Bullying in Kindergarten and School
Ingrid Lund

Imaginative vulnerability and kindergarten choice in interethnic families: Parental concerns for children's future sense of self and belonging.
Thomas Andre Ims

Healing emotional wounds in a comprehensive appoach to bullying
Mónica Rose Donnellan Barraclough

Mastrafjorden A:

How do Norwegian schools involve After School Programs in their work to detect and stop bullying?
Kari Gusfre

Bullying intervention in the Norwegian after-school program
Ida Sjursø

Cyberbullying as a Challenge to the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents – Perspectives on Cyberbullying from Finnish Young People
Paula Aalto

Hidden Bullying Patterns and Constraining Conditions
Stine Kaplan Jørgensen

Towards Safer Online Spaces with CILTER: A Participatory Design Study with Adolescents
Sinan Asci

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16:00-16:15

Break

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16:15-17:15

Workshop

Lysefjorden A:

Generative AI and Cyberbullying: Prevention and Response
Sameer Hinduja

Lysefjorden B:

Using Art to Engage Youth in (Cyber)Bullying Research: An Interactive, Creative Methodology Workshop
Giorgia Scuderi, Isabel Machado da Silva, Kainaat Maqbool

Uburen:

Global Perspectives on Bias-Based Peer Victimization
Diana Meter, Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Sevgi Bayram-Ozdemir, Alaina Brenick, Helen Cahill

Snønuten:

Let’s play! Using Escape room methodology as a tool in preventing bullying
Andreas Nilsson

Vindafjorden:

Student Participation: The Key to Better Well-being and Less Bullying
Madelen Kloster

Preikestolen:

How can cooperation between researchers and practitioners contribute to uncover cyberbullying? Reflections on intervention and prevention.
Theresa Ristad, Tone Andersen

Kjerag:

“Brain-friendly school”
Ingrid Kristine Aspli

Mastrafjorden:

Cineáltas (Kindness): Ireland’s whole education approach to preventing and addressing bullying behaviour in schools
Judith Lyons

Vårlivarden:

Spotlight on Cyberbullying – a national approach from Australia’s eSafety Commissioner
Nicky Sloss

Synesvarden:

Chatbuddy 'Victor': How to increase the impact of a school play, based on the four basic emotions, in preschools? ‘Chat buddy Victor’ refers to the use of a specifically designed hand puppet and educational material
Fried Ringoot

Jæren:

Empathy and Social-Emotional Learning in Preventing and Addressing Bullying
Cathy Bruno-Paparelli, Stephen Duch

Kaldefjell:

Tools for detection and community response: The importance of shared interprofessional systems that identify and tackle violence between peers
Mónica Rose Donnellan Barraclough

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17:15-17:30

Break

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17:30-18:30

The right to learn: Protecting Students from Bullying in Schools
Mina Gerhardsen, Ombudsperson for Children

Youth Panel
Bridging the Youth–Research–Practice Gap Through Intergenerational Dialogue
Hannah Baarøy

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19:00

Welcome Dinner at Clarion Energy Hotel