1st Edition
Bullying Among University Students Cross-national perspectives
OVERVIEW
1 What we know to date about bullying and cyberbullying among university students
Helen Cowie and Carrie-Anne Myers
THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
2 The student voice
Toni Pearce
3 The postgraduate student experience
Rashid Aziz
THE NATURE OF BULLYING AT UNIVERSITY
4 Do the roles of bully and victim remain stable from school to university? Theoretical considerations
Maili Pörhölä
5 Homophobic and transphobic bullying in universities
Ian Rivers
6 Stalking and violence among university students
Katja Björklund
7 The relationship between mental health and bullying
Osman Tolga Arıcak
THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF BULLYING AT UNIVERSITY
8 Cyberaggression among members of college fraternities and sororities in the United States
Jessica Simmons, Sheri Bauman, and Johanne Ives
9 Bullying at Greek universities: an empirical study
Theodoros Giovazolias and Maria Malikiosi-Loizos
10 Cross-cultural comparisons of bullying among university students: perspectives from Argentina, Estonia, Finland and United States
Maili Pörhölä, Kristen Cvancara, Esta Kaal, Kaja Tampere and Beatriz Torres
INTERVENTIONS AND POLICIES
11 The role of the therapist in helping university students who have been bullied
Maria Luca
12 Policies and procedures to address bullying at Australian universities
Marilyn Campbell
13 Cyberbullying and rape culture in universities: defining the legal lines between fun and intentional harm
Shaheen Shariff and Ashley DeMartini,
REFLECTIONS
14 Commentary: Bullying among university students: awakening and harnessing the sleeping dragon of student power
Keith Sullivan
15 Commentary: what universities can learn from workplace bullying research
Iain Coyne
16 Epilogue: what can be done?
Helen Cowie and Carrie-Anne Myers
Biography
Helen Cowie is Emerita Professor at the University of Surrey in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences where she specializes in strategies to counteract school bullying. She is also visiting professor at Brunel University and visiting researcher at Regent’s University London. She has over 100 publications in refereed journals on the subject of mental health in youth, emotional development, cyberbullying and peer support.
Carrie-Anne Myers is a lecturer in Criminology at City University London where she researches and teaches in a number of key areas including Childhood, Youth and Adolescence, School Violence and Bullying, Victims, Victimology and Criminal Justice Policy, Gender and Feminist Criminology, and Media and Youth Cultures of Consumption.
