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Session

Keynote

11 Jun 2025, 10:00

Stavanger Forum

370. School Safety and Security: Violence and Victimization Implications for Racially Minoritized Youth in the United States

Prof. Anthony Peguero (Foundation Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Arizona State University)

11/06/2025, 10:00

Anthony A. Peguero is a Foundation Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Arizona State University. His research interests involve youth violence, the intersection of the educational and juvenile justice systems, socialization and marginalization, racial/ethnic inequality and disparity, and the adaptation of the children immigrants.
Dr. Peguero is a member of the National Academies of...

371. The neurobiology of bullying victimization: Implications for mental health

Tracy Vaillancourt (University of Ottawa)

11/06/2025, 13:30

Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Youth Mental Health and Violence Prevention at the University of Ottawa where she is cross-appointed as a full professor in Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education and the School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences. Dr. Vaillancourt is also a member of the Brain and Mind Institute, Faculty of Medicine and the Centre for...

373. Teacher bullying

Prof. Dagmar Strohmeier (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria)

12/06/2025, 08:30

Dagmar Strohmeier is Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Linz in Austria and Professor II at the University of Stavanger, Stavanger in Norway. She studies peer relations in children and youth with a cross-cultural and cross-national perspective and has a special focus on immigrant youth.
She has developed, implemented and evaluated a program to foster social and...

372. Effective response to the ever-evolving challenges of cyberbullying in Korea

Prof. Insoo Oh (Ewha Womans University)

12/06/2025, 13:45

Insoo Oh, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Education at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea. He holds a doctoral degree in Counselor Education from the Pennsylvania State University. He was an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. His research has focused on bystander’s reaction to school bullying and...

374. Prevention of Bullying in Early Childhood Education and Care

Prof. Ingunn Størksen (Centre for Learning Environment at the University of Stavanger)

13/06/2025, 08:15

Ingunn Størksen is a professor of educational psychology at the Centre for Learning Environment at the University of Stavanger. She has led multiple research and development initiatives focused on early childhood education and care (ECEC), with particular emphasis on children’s emotional development, social skills, and self-regulation. Currently, Størksen leads a large randomized controlled...

375. Social and Moral Processes of School Bullying

Robert Thornberg (Linköping University)

13/06/2025, 14:15

Robert Thornberg, PhD, is a professor at Linköping University. He holds a doctoral degree in Educational Research from Linköping University. His research focuses on school bullying and bystander behaviors related to bullying and peer victimization, particularly in terms of moral and social processes. He is currently involved in several funded research projects covering topics such as peer...