Professor Rami Benbenishty
Israel
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Rami Benbenishty is a professor of Social Work in Bar Ilan University, Israel. He studies the welfare and rights of children and youth, and the well being of children in normative contexts, such as schools and in out of home placements. Along with Ron Avi Astor he studies school climate and prevention of school violence. Together they developed a theoretical framework of school climate and violence in evolving contexts. He is engaged in a number of international collaborative studies and helps develop systems to monitor school violence and climate. He has published more than 200 scientific publications and received several awards including, Society for Social Work Research (SSWR) Distinguished Career Achievement Award, 2016, Israel’s EMET Prize for Science, Art, and Culture, 2016, France's Chevalier des Ordre de PalmesAcademique (Knight in the Order of Academic Palmes), 2011, and Israel's Landau Prize for Research and Science
Professor Dennis Wong
Hong Kong
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Prof Dennis S.W. WONG, PhD, is currently Professor of Criminology at Department of Applied Social Sciences, and Associate Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong. His areas of expertise include juvenile delinquency, bullying studies, and restorative justice. Prof Wong is honorary consultant on youth drugs abuse, school bullying, and offenders’ rehabilitation for governmental organizations.
He also serves as board member for a number of non-governmental organizations and academic societies. He is currently a member of Executive Board of Asian Criminological Society. He is well known criminologist in the Greater China region and frequently interviewed by mass media. Apart from publishing articles in local and international journals, he has published books related to criminology, juvenile delinquency, school bullying, alternative to prosecution, and restorative justice.
Professor Peter K Smith
United Kingdom
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Peter Smith is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Unit for School and Family Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.He has published Understanding School Bullying: Its Nature and Prevention Strategies (Sage Publications, 2014), Understanding Children’s Development (with H. Cowie and M. Blades) (6th ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), and Adolescence: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2016).
His edited books include Bullying in the Global Village: Research on Cyberbullying from an International Perspective (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), Cyberbullying through the new media: Findings from an International Network (Psychology Press, 2013), and School Bullying in Different Cultures: Eastern and Western Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
He was the Chair of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology Cyberbullying Action (COST ACTION IS0801)from 2008-2012, and was PI of a project Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Pupil Safety and Wellbeing, financed by the Indian-European Research Networking in the Social sciences initiative (2012-2015). He is currently co-PI(with M. Samara and others) of a project Comparative study of cyberbullying in Qatar and the UK: risk factors, impact on health and solutions, financed by the Qatar National Research Fund (2013-2016).
In 2015 he was awarded the William Thierry Preyer award for Excellence in Research on Human Development, by the European Society for Developmental Psychology.
Dr.Suman Verma
India
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Suman Verma is a Developmental Psychologist and former head of the Human Development & Family Relations Department, Government Home Science College, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Her research with an advocacy component are in the areas of behavior settings of street/working children, daily ecology of adolescent family life, school stress, adolescent abuse, and intervention studies using life skills education approach. Other areas of published work include time use patterns among adolescents, academic stress, single parenting, positive youth development and social policy. A two time fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, her cross-cultural project sponsored by CASBS, Stanford and funded by Jacobs Foundation on ‘Pathways of Risk and Protection among Street Youth in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and S. Africa’ is based on a comparative framework that is guided by theory on risk and protection and the ecological and contextual conditions in the lives of street kids in these countries. As an active member of various professional organizations such as ISSBD and SRCD, her interests are in (i) promoting greater visibility for the Asian region in professional societies; (ii) capacity building and mentoring initiatives for professional growth of young scholars in the region; and (iii) facilitating regional collaborations and creating opportunities for resource sharing.
Toni C. Antonucci is the Douvan Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Program Director of the Life Course Development Program at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Her research focuses on social relations and health across the lifespan among individuals and families and across generations. Her work has involved populations in United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. She is particularly interested in how social relations optimize or jeopardize an individual’s ability to face life’s challenges. She was President of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the Society for the Study of Human Development, editor of the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and the recipient of GSA’s Distinguished Career Contribution to Gerontology Award. She is a member of the MacArthur Network on the Aging Society, Secretary General-Elect of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, and was recently elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is President –Elect of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development. She was the Principal Investigator on the MAC House study, a field experiment designed to bring successful aging interventions to an affordable housing community, is currently the PI on a twenty-five year multi-wave study of Social Relations and Health across the Life Span, and a study of Social Relations, Forgiveness and Humility in three U.S. Ethnic groups. She is currently a Russell Sage Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York focusing on socioeconomic status, social relations and health
Associate Professor Dr. Barbara Spears
Australia
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Barbara Spears is Associate Professor of Education, in the School of Education, at the University of South Australia. She is Research Leader of the Wellbeing Research Group in the Centre for Research in Education at UniSA and the Hawke Research Institute. She currently leads the Review and Update of the National Safe Schools Framework, Australia’s national wellbeing policy framework. She has recently also led: Safe and Well Online, a $2 million national project for the Young and well Co-operative Research Centre, exploring interdisciplinary online interventions; A Public Health Approach to Sexting (UNISA); Cyberbullying, Sexting and the Law (Department for Education and Child Development); and Youth Exposure to and Management of Cyber-Bullying Incidents in Australia (Department of Communications) all of which have directly informed national and State law reform and policy. Her chief areas of research include: youth voice and participatory design; children and technology; sexting; bullying, cyberbullying; covert bullying; bystander behaviour; mental health and wellbeing; social emotional development; and teacher education. International research has been undertaken with partners from UK, Europe, and India.
Assistant Professor Dr.Ruthaychonnee Sittichai
Thailand
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Dr. Ruthaychonnee Sittichai (Ruth) is an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand. She is an ISSBD Coordinator for Thailand. She has recently published Cyberbullying among Adolescents (in Thai)(Chanmaung Press, 2017). She was trained for Cyberbullying in Melbourne, Australia in 2010 and in Helsinki, Finland in 2012. Her research results on cyberbullying were published not only in academic journals but also interviewed and published by Bangkok Post Newspaper in 2016. Her research collaborations are recently with Finland, Germany, India, The Netherlands, and Portugal.
She was the International finance secretariat and Webmistress for European Cooperation in Science and Technology Cyberbullying Action (COST ACTION IS0801) Cyberbullying: coping with negative and enhancing positive uses of new technologies, in relationships in educational settings,from 2008-2012, in London, United Kingdom. She has been trained about COST Financial System in Brussels, Belgium in 2009.She had experience in co-organize COSTIS0801 meetings, workshops, conferences and visited several countries in Europe such as Lodz, Poland; Sofia, Bulgaria; Vilnius, Lithuania; Florence, Italy; Antwerp, Belgium; Melbourne, Australia; Turku, Finland; Dublin, Ireland; Paris, France; Vienna, Austria.
She got Outstanding International Research Publication Award in 2013 and in 2016 from Prince of Songkla University. She was a Research and Graduate Studies Vice Dean from 2011-2013. She has been appointed to the Research Grants Committee for Social Sciences of Research Development Office (RDO) at Prince of Songkla University since 2011 - present.
Herpresent research projectsare “Application for Guideline of Cyberbullying Behavior for Youth” and “Definitions of Bullying: A Comparison of Terms Used, and Age and Gender Differences, an International Comparison” which is a project in the INDIAN-EUROPEAN Research NetworkingProgramme in theSocial Sciences: Bullying, Cyberbullying, Pupil Safety&Well-Being.
