Wednesday, June 11
Day 1
08:00 - 09:00
Registration
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09:00 - 10:00
Opening Ceremony
Welcome from the organiser (The Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment)
Welcome from the Dean of the Faculty of Education, UiS
Welcome from Friends and from WABF Youth Group
Greetings from the Presenting sponsor BRP
Official opening of the conference by Minister of Education,
Kari Nessa Nordtun
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10:00 - 10:45
Keynote: School Safety and Security: Violence and Victimization Implications for Racially Minoritized Youth in the United States
Anthony A. Peguero (Arizona State University)
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11:00 - 12:30
Symposia
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.
Chair and discussant: Ingrid Midteide Løkken (Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education)
1. The learning environment project – a Norwegian innovation to promote a safe and
sound environment in ECEC and to prevent, identify, and manage violations like bullying, violence, discrimination, and harassment
Anne Kristin Hansen Andersen, Marianne Torve Martinsen (Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education)
2. Co-creating a community for a good psychosocial environment in ECEC
Anne Kristin Hansen Andersen (Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education)
3. Experiences with “The Learning Environment Project” from a Sami ECEC
Hanne Mette Vindvik (Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education), Tina Øwre (Karasjok Municipality)
4. The staff’s involvement and potential support in peer relations in ECEC toddler groups - an exploratory observational study
Ingrid Midteide Løkken (Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education)
LYSEFJORDEN B:
Exploring the Impact of Smartphone Bans on Cyberbullying, Digital Literacy and Children’s Rights
Chair and dicussant: Sinan Asci (Dublin City University)
1. Exploring the Impact of Smartphone Bans in Schools on Cyberbullying Behaviours among Adolescents in Ireland
Megan Reynolds (Dublin City University)
2. Irish Teachers Perspective on Smartphone Bans and Cyberbullying Behaviours in Schools
James O’Higgins Norman (Dublin City University)
3. Rethinking School Phone Bans: Empowering Students with Media Literacy to Address School Bullying
Maryam Esfandiari (Dublin City University)
4. Children’s Rights in Tech: Mitigating the risk-factors of Cyberbullying Vs Protecting Children’s Rights
Sophie Butler (Dublin City University)
UBUREN:
‘Different together’ - a postcolonial understanding of bullying
Chair: Tora Petersen (The educational service centre of the Faroe Islands, Nám)
Discussant: Frode Restad (Oslo Metropolitan University)
1. “Double exclusion” of students in Greenland
Kaali Olsen, The Board Of Education in Greenland , Helle Rabøl Hansen
2. Let’s meet everyone with tolerance and show respect for diversity
Ída Björg Unnarsdóttir (Barnaheill – Save the children)
3. Faroese experiences from a culturally adapted antibullying program
Tora Petersen (The educational service centre of the Faroe Islands, Nám)
SYNESVARDEN:
Teacher responses to bias-based bullying
Chair: Maria Sapouna (University of the West of Scotland)
1. Teacher responses to racially motivated bullying in Scotland
Maria Sapouna (University of the West of Scotland)
2. Teachers’ Responses to Racism and Racist Bullying in Dutch Primary Schools
Roy Willems (Open Universiteit)
3. Unveiling the Black Box: Exploring Teachers’ Approaches to Ethnic Victimization Incidents at School
Sevgi Bayram-Ozdemir (Orebro University)
4. Pedagogy of discomfort as a way to prevent and intervene against bias-based bullying
Geir Skeie (University of Stavanger)
5. Teachers need socio-moral competencies to successfully address bias-based bullying: The case for promoting professional ethos
Eveline Gutzwiller (Schwyz University)
KALDEFJELL:
Bullying prevention needs teachers who intervene in cases of bullying. An RCT study on the synergistic effects of prevention and intervention
Chair: Ludwig Bilz (Brandenburg University of Technology)
Discussant: Hilde Colpin (KU Leuven)
1. A Randomized Controlled Comparative Study on the Effectiveness and Mechanisms of an Anti-Bullying Intervention Training for Teachers: Trial Description
Saskia Fischer, Ludwig Bilz, Marc Allroggen (University Hospital Ulm), Herbert Schethauer (Freie Universität Berlin)
2. Acting cooperatively against bullying: A training course for teachers on a systematic school-wide approach against bullying
Saskia Fischer, Ludwig Bilz (Brandenburg University of Technology)
3. Fairplayer. Manual - developmentally appropriate, school-based prevention of bullying and promotion of social competences
Herbert Scheithauer (Freie Universität Berlin), Marc Allroggen (University Hospital Ulm)
4. Assessing teacher responses to bullying incidents: A revised and updated version of the Handling Bullying Questionnaire
Ludwig Bilz (Brandenburg University of Technology), Saskia Fischer
JÆREN:
Innovative Approaches for New Challenges: Rethinking Concepts and Methods in Bullying and Cyberbullying Research
Chair: Annalisa Guarin (University of Bologna)
Discussant: Marina Camodeca
1. Impact of changes in educational and social landscapes on bullying and cyberbullying research agendas
Barbara Spears (University of South Australia)
2. Adolescents, Social Media, and Cyberbullying: Examining Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches
Alberto Amadori (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
3. Understanding Students’ Perceptions of Defenders in Bullying: Insights from an Ecological Drawing Task
Laura Menabò
4. The role of parenting style in bullying: a 3 waves longitudinal study
Carlo Marinoni (University of Pavia)
SNØNUTEN:
Beyond Borders: Colorblind Racism and the Global Reach of Racist Bullying in Schools
Chair: Andrew Webb (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
Discussant: Dorothy Espelage (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
1. Racist Bullying in a US Middle School Context: Intersections of Colorblind Racism and White Fragility
Anne Williford (Colorado State University)
2. Racist Bullying and polite exclusion in Swedish Schools
Layal Wiltgren (Linköping University)
3. School Bullying in the United States and the Significance of Immigration
Anthony A. Peguero (Arizona State University)
4. Seeking anti-racist school climates: experiences from collaborative research with school communities in Chile
Andrew Webb (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
KJERAG:
Bullying Intervention by Peers and Adults: Should We Promote the Good or Punish the Bad?
Chair: Lydia Laninga-Wijne
Discussant: Wendy Craig (Queens University)
1. Do Targeted Interventions Stop Victimization? Short- and Long-term Effectiveness
Lydia Laninga-Wijnen
2. A Briefer Positive-Oriented Classroom Interventions to Address School Bullying: An RCT
Liu Yang (Beijing Normal University)
3. Pilot RCT of a family intervention for adolescents experiencing peer problems and emotional distress
Karyn Healy (The University of Queensland)
4. Exposure to bullying is not equal: Implications for peer defending among 2SLGBTQIA+ youth
Laura Lambe (St. Francis Xavier University)
MASTRAFJORDEN A:
Dan Olweus: Life and Achievements
Chair: Yuichi Toda (Osaka Kyoiku University)
Co-Chair: Susan Limber (Clemson University)
1. Overview and the early years in Sweden
Kyrre Breivik (Regional Center for Child Mental Health)
2. Norway and the First Nationwide Campaign against Bullying
Erling Roland (Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education)
3. Norway and the later years
Kyrre Breivik (Regional Center for Child Mental Health)
4. Dan Olweus and School Bullying Research in China: Impact and Impetus
Wenxin Zhang (Shandong Normal University)
5. The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program – Norway and overseas
Sue Limber (Clemson University)
PREIKESTOLEN:
The Development of Bullying Across Childhood and Adolescence: Findings from Multi-Informant, Multi-Method Longitudinal Studies
Chair: Ann Farrell (Brock University), Heather Brittain (University of Ottawa)
Discussant: Tracy Vaillancourt (University of Ottawa)
1. Bullying Victimization and Teacher-Student Relationships
Marie Aurora Nordahl (University of Oslo)
2. Suffering in silence: Youth whose parents do not know they are being bullied are far more anxious than those whose parents know
Tracy Vaillancourt (University of Ottawa)
3. Bullying Perpetration, Popularity, and Approval Seeking Across Adolescence: Separating Between and Within Person Associations
Ann Farrell (Brock University)
4. Bullying Victimization in Adolescence and PTSD in Adulthood
Thormod Idsøe (University of Oslo)
VINDAFJORDEN:
Predictors and Outcomes of Defending, Being defended and Friendships: A Focus on Victimization
Chair: Claire Garandeau (University of Turku)
Discussant: Christina Salmivalli (University of Turku)
1. Defending Behavior and Victimization: Between and Within-Person Associations
Claire Garandeau, Christina Salmivalli (University of Turku)
2. Peer dynamics of victimization and the moderating effects of class-level peer community
Daniela Chávez (University of Turku)
3. Student profiles of being victimized and defended: Transitions over time and implications for psychological adjustment
Daniel Graf (University of Turku)
4. Moral courage as a predictor of defending victims of bullying: A longitudinal study in preadolescence
Paula García-Carrera (University of Cordoba)
VÅRLIVARDEN:
Peer-Aggression among Young Children: Nature and Potential for Intervention
Chair: Claire Monks
1. Social behaviour and peer victimisation profiles at school entry: The interplay between preschool executive functions and theory of mind
Sophie Chaput-Langlois (Université de Montréal)
2. Peer Aggression in Early Childhood: A Sample of Turkiye and England
Claire Monks
3. Exploring 4 - 7 year olds’ self-reports of victimisation experiences
Katie Rix (The Open University)
4. Development and application of the program for promoting young children’s positive peer relationships based on restorative justice approach
Seung-ha Lee (Chung-And University)
5. A systematic review and meta-analysis of school-based interventions to reduce aggression in 3-6 year olds
Claire Monks
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12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
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13:30 - 14:15
Keynote: The neurobiology of bullying victimization: Implications for mental health
Tracy Vaillancourt (University of Ottawa)
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14:15 - 14:30
Break
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14:30 - 16:00
Individual Oral Presentations (Thematic Sessions)
LYSEFJORDEN A:
1. Bullying prevention in kindergarten - how to use puppets as playfull learning tool
Live Herheim (CEO of mobbets)
2. Team Skyfritt – the implementation of a support team in the municipality of Bergen working with bullying prevention in school and kindergarten
Camilla Blokhus Svensson, Lise Einarsen Haukås (Bergen kompetansesenter for læringsmiljø)
3. Childrens Voices on Bullying in Kindergarten and School
Ingrid Lund (University of Agder)
4. Imaginative vulnerability and kindergarten choice in interethnic families: Parental concerns for children’s future sense of self and belonging
Thomas Andre Ims (University of Stavanger)
5. Healing emotional wounds in a comprehensive appoach to bullying
Mónica Rose Donnellan Barraclough (Asociación PDA Bullying)
LYSEFJORDEN B:
1. Acceptance struggles and life trajectories for LGBTQI+ young people experiencing homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic bullying at school
Camilla Forsberg (Linköping University)
2. Deadnaming and misgendering as emotional triggers in young people’s experiences of transphobic bullying
Paul Horton (Linköping University)
3. What is a safe and good learning environment in a diverse classroom? Bias-based bullying and religious education in Norwegian schools
Geir Skeie (University of Stavanger)
4. Preventing bullying through subject teaching – how do they do it?
Frode Restad (Oslo Metropolitan University)
5. No hate against Sámi people – Youth Councils in Norway take a stand against hate speech and discrimination
Ida Berge (The European Wergeland Centre)
UBUREN:
1. Children’s perspectives on school bullying: theater as a research tool
Rozemarijn Van Der Ploeg (University of Groningen)
School Bullying and Suicidality: A Meta-Analytic Examination
Chiaki Konishi (McGill University)
2. CBT with Friends
Hanna Rohani and Ida Mörk
3. The role of humour in bullying dynamics and coping strategies: A social network analysis
Xiaowen Jiang (McGill University)
SNØNUTEN:
1. What Guidance Do We Have? Bullying State Laws in the UK
Katherine Graves (University of Texas at Arlington)
2. Supporting the Front Line: capacity building and professional support in schools
Andrea Synnøve Eikset, Hilde Brendehaug Hugaas, Sissel Kulild (NORCE)
3. Crafting and Implementing a Sustainable School Anti Bullying Policy: It Takes a Village
Neena David (Mallya Aditi International School)
4. 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 (Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education)
5. A Logic Model Approach to Abu Dhabi’s Comprehensive School Anti-Bullying Strategy
Alfan Alketbi (UOS)
KALDEFJELL:
1. Trauma-Informed Bullying Prevention Methodology Project in a Hungarian Foster Care Home
Gabriella Dr. Kulcsár (University of Pécs)
2. Blaming Myself or My Actions? Unpacking Attribution Styles and Their Impact on Chinese American Youth’s Mental Health
Meg Stomski (University of California Berkeley)
3. Legal tools to tackle bullying and cyberbullying
Tamás Pongó
4. Cyberbullying Among Adolescents in Norway 2014-2016: Time Trends and Factors Associated with Perpetration and Victimization
Tore Bonsaksen (Universitetet i Innlandet)
5. Building Safe Schools and Villages: A Socio-ecological Approach to Counter Bullying
Manjima Biswas
JÆREN:
1. The impact of tailored mentoring on bullying prevalence: Is there a mediating effect of universal actions?
Marie-Pier Larose (University of Turku)
2. Professional-family collaboration in creating a safe play and learning environment in Nordic countries: A scoping review
Dziuginta Baraldsnes (Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education)
3. Empowering Bystanders: Enhancing Direct Intervention in Cyberbullying with EmojiGen
Jungup Lee
4. Teachers’ perceived effectiveness of a whole-school approach anti-bullying program and their practices for bullying prevention and intervening
Dziuginta Baraldsnes (Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education)
SYNESVARDEN:
1. 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 (Brandenburg University of Technology)
2. Bullying Victimization and Internalizing Problems of Children with Disabilities: The Moderating Role of Family Strengths
Chad Rose (University of Missouri - Columbia)
3. A Latent Profile Analysis of Bullying Involvement and Outcomes Amongst Youth with Learning Disabilities
Sarah Manchanda
4. Spiritually-enriched psychoeducation for the development of social emotional and intercultural skills and reducing bullying in Catechetical Schools
Olga Solomontos-Kountouri (Theological School of the Church of Cyprus)
5. The Role of Bullying and Adult Responses in School Absenteeism Among Autistic Students - A Grounded Theory
Isabella Sasso (University of Oldenburg)
VINDAFJORDEN:
1. The Upstander Network facing Bullying and Cyberbullying
Fernando Domínguez-Hernández, Ana Toledo Del Cerro (CSEU La Salle / UNED)
2. Of coaches and teammates: How motivational climate in sport shapes youth athletes’ anti-bullying behavior
Elisa Bisagno (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
3. To ignore, to join in, or to intervene? Contextual and individual factors influencing cyber bystanders’ response to cyberbullying incidents.
Nikolett Arato (Eötvös Loránd University)
4. Do 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 (University of Oxford)
5. National level digital skills and cyberbullying involvement
Dóra Eszter Varnai
PREIKESTOLEN:
1. Exploring Moral Processing in Cyberbullying
Albara Mishkes
2. 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 (Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education)
3. School-Level Association Between Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Competencies and Bullying Involvement: A Four-Year Longitudinal Study
Chunyan Yang (University of Maryland)
4. Following-up actions after bulling – a single case study in Norway
Anna Lange Moi (Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education), Johannes Nilsson Finne (Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education)
5. Implementation matters – KiVa Program implementation and results from 2022 to 2024, a three-year cohort-longitudinal study
Kristiina Treial
KJERAG:
1. A recommendation for more mixed methods research
Peter Smith (University of London)
2. Bullying Figurations: An Eliasian Pespective on the Civilizing Process
Andrew Webb (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
3. Centering Children’s Voices from an Empirical Children’s Rights Perspective
Marijke Van Buggenhout (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Eva Dierickx (Artesis Plantijn), Els Dumortier (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
4. Early adolescent ACEs and associations with bullying perpetration and victimization, and peer relationship outcomes during late adolescence
Gabriel Merrin (Syracuse University)
5. The association between school contribution to preventing bullying and student learning outcome
Christian Wendelborg, Ole Henning Nyhus, Joakim Caspersen, Jon Marius Vaag Iversen (NTNU Social Research)
VÅRLIVARDEN:
1. Does Onset of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents Increase Risk of Victimization One Year Later?
Jonas Bjärehed (Lund University), Marlene Bjärehed (Kristianstad University)
2. Unsafe Places in School: Children’s Perspectives
Layal Wiltgren (Linköping University)
3. Teacher bullying victimization and the moderating effects of school climate
Jordan Kerere
MASTRAFJORDEN A:
1. How do Norwegian schools involve After School Programs in their work to detect and stop bullying?
Kari Gusfre (Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education)
2. Bullying intervention in the Norwegian after-school program
Ida Sjursø (Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education)
3. Cyberbullying as a Challenge to the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents – Perspectives on Cyberbullying from Finnish Young People
Paula Aalto (Mannerheim League for Child Welfare)
4. Hidden Bullying Patterns and Constraining Conditions
Stine Kaplan Jørgensen (University College Copenhagen)
5. Towards Safer Online Spaces with CILTER: A Participatory Design Study with Adolescents
Sinan Asci (Dublin City University)
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16:00-16:15
Break
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16:15-17:15
Workshops
LYSEFJORDEN A:
Generative AI and Cyberbullying: Prevention and Response
Sameer Hinduja (Florida Atlantic University)
LYSEFJORDEN B:
Using Art to Engage Youth in (Cyber)Bullying Research: An Interactive, Creative Methodology Workshop
Giorgia Scuderi (Aarhus University), Isabel Machado da Silva (Dublin City University), Kainaat Maqbool (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
UBUREN:
Global Perspectives on Bias-Based Peer Victimization
Diana Meter (Utah State University), Kelly Lynn Mulvey (North Carolina State University), Sevgi Bayram-Ozdemir (Orebro University), Alaina Brenick (University of Connecticut), Helen Cahill (University of Melbourne)
SNØNUTEN:
Let’s play! Using Escape room methodology as a tool in preventing bullying
Bodil J. Houg, Andreas Nilsson (Ombud for barn og unge i Akershus, Buskerud og Østfold)
KALDEFJELL:
Helping LGBTQI+ Youth with Caring
Jasmin Roy (Fondation Jasmin Roy Sophie Desmarais)
JÆREN:
Empathy and Social-Emotional Learning in Preventing and Addressing Bullying
Cathy Bruno-Paparelli, Stephen Duch (The Executive Leadership Institute)
SYNESVARDEN:
Chat buddy ‘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
VINDAFJORDEN:
Student Participation: The Key to Better Well-being and Less Bullying
Madelen Kloster (School Student Union of Norway)
PREIKESTOLEN:
How can cooperation between researchers and practitioners contribute to uncover cyberbullying?
Reflections on intervention and prevention
Theresa Ristad (NTNU)
KJERAG:
“Brain-friendly school”
Ingrid Kristine Aspli, Per Helge Seljebotn, Elisabeth Vågen Bø, Gunn Helen Voll (Stavanger kommune)
VÅRLIVARDEN:
Spotlight on Cyberbullying – a national approach from Australia’s eSafety Commissioner
Nicky Sloss
MASTRAFJORDEN A:
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