International collaborations

Aggressive and Bullying Behaviour in Youth (ABBY)

This special interest group has come together to pool resources to consider new ideas for investigating and dealing with aggressive behaviour and bullying in schools.

Lead: Dr Grace Skrzypiec, Flinders University

Countries: Portugal, Poland, China, Phillipines, Malaysia

India-Australia: International studies in wellbeing

This groups represents a partnership between Australia and India to promote health and wellbeing and reducing risk-taking behaviour amongst adolescents in schools.

Lead: Associate Professor Damanjit Sandhu, Punjabi University, India

Country: India

Peace education

Peace education teaches individuals to think differently about violence and seeks to discover the root-causes for violence and conflicts. This group aims to build individual characteristics and social awareness to think peacefully and to build a peaceful world.

Lead: Professor Soon-Won Kang, Hanshin University, South Korea

Country: South Korea

Social-Emotional Learning & Bullying and Cyberbullying: A Spanish Perspective

Current studies of this group include the social-emotional and moral skills of bystanders to better understand the effects of interventions of cyberbullying and bullying, and the project entitled Sexting, cyberbullying and emerging risks in the network: Keys for understanding and an educational response.

Lead: Lydia Nacimiento Rodríguez, University of Seville, Spain

Country: Spain

SWAPv undertakes national and international research with collaborators and joint research laboratories across the world. It also supports research being undertaken in student well-being and violence prevention through SWAPv Collaborative Teams set up at other Universities.

These include:

• SWAPv Italy - Dr Antonella Brighi, University of Bolzanno and Dr Annalisa Guarini, University of Bologna
  
• SWAPv India - Dr Damanjit Sandhu, Punjabi University
• SWAPv Spain - Dr Eva Romera, University of Cordoba
• SWAPv Israel - Dorit Olenik Shemesh, Open University of Israel