The biannual conference

The conference was attended by 701 delegates from 48 different countries.The comprehensive programme consisted of 13 keynote speakers, 130 oral presentations, 89 poster presentations, 36 workshops etc. Prominent researchers from five continents did keynote addresses. The opening ceremony was attended by the President of DCU and the Lord Mayor of Dublin and the closing ceremony was attended by Mary Mitchell O’Connor, Minister of State at the Department of Education with special responsibility for Higher Education. 

Keynote Speakers

Christina Salmivall – Professor of psychology at the University of Turku 

Shelley Hymel – Edith Lando Professorship in Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia 

Peter Smith – Professor of psychology at the Goldsmiths University of London 

Charlotte Petri Gornitzka – Assistant Secretary-General and UNICEF Deputy Executive Director at UNICEF 

Anna Maria Corazza Bildt – European Parliament Coordinator for children’s rights 

Dorte Marie Søndergaard – Professor in social psychology at the Aarhus University 

Michael Kyobe – Professor of Information Systems and Deputy Dean for research & Internationalization at the University of Cape Town 

René Veenstra – Professor of Sociology at the University of Groningen 

Eva Romera – Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Córdoba 

Antigone Davis – Director and Global Head of Safety at Facebook 

Christian Berger – Associate professor at the Universidad Católica de Chile 

Susan Swearer – Willa Cather Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska 

Kevin Kumashiro – Expert on educational policy, school reform, teacher preparation, and educational equity and social justice at Kevin Kumashiro Consulting 

Shoko Yoneyama – Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide

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The world’s leading researchers were present and a total of 150 different presentations, workshops and seminars were conducted during the three days of the conference. At the inauguration, we had the honor of having H.R.H. Prince Carl Philip and H.R.H. Princess Sofia as speakers, which contributed to attracting international attention not only to the conference but to children’s exposure to bullying in general.  

 In addition to world-leading researchers as keynote speakers, the first day of the conference was opened by a speach by Marta Santos Pais, the UN Special Representative for the Prevention of Violence against Children and the Swedish Minister of Education Gustav Fridolin welcomed the participants to the last day of the conference. 

Keynote Speakers

Sameer Hinduja  – Professor at School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida Atlantic University and Co-Director of the Cyberbullying Research Center. 

Patricia Agatston  – PhD and Licensed Professional Counselor and Prevention Specialist with the Prevention/Intervention Center in Marietta, Georgia. 

Donna Cross  – Professor at University of Western Australia and Director, Early Childhood Development and Learning Collaboration (CoLab) at the Telethon Kids Institute. 

Dorothy Espelage  – Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida 

Jun Sung Hong  – Associate Professor at the School of Social Work at Wayne State University

Keynote Panel

Elizabethe Payne – Director of the Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI) and faculty in the Hunter College School of Education. 

Jessica Ringrose – Head of the Sociology Section in Department of Education, Practice and Society, and co-director in the UCL Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity at the University College London 

Dan Olweus – Professor of psychology at the University of Bergen and Founding Father of research on bullying. 

Christina Salmivalli – Professor of psychology at the University of Turku 

Peter Smith – Professor of psychology at the Goldsmiths University of London 

Dorothy Espelage   – Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida