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Val Besag on the Web


These links connect to web sites where Val Besag and her work are quoted or referenced.

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Daily Mail : Rise of the bully-girls

Daily Telegraph : What turns a nice child into a 'brat bully'?

Edinburgh Evening News : Girls deadlier than the male

Sunday Times : Mindbending games of the girl bullies

Times Education Supplement : It's a girl thing (Review of Val's most recent book)

Young Voice (details of a conference Val Besag presented at during May 2006)

Some of the presentations and workshops that Val Besag has undertaken

Raising their voices: Girls' bullying, friendships and disputes

European Conference on Initiatives to Combat School Bullying - Interventions at School Level

Gangs OR Us - International radio discussion

Kidscape - Val Besag biography for speaking event

School Psychologists’ Association of Western Australia (Inc) : Conference 2002 - Keynote Speaker

University of East Anglia, Learning Together, Norfolk Headteacher Conference 2002 - Presenter
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Coping with Bullying CD-ROM links

Coping with Bullying webpage

New Roundabout, Rotary

Val Besag and her work quoted or referenced

A Qualitative Study of Effective School Discipline Practices: Perceptions of Administrators, Tenured Teachers, and Parents in Twenty Schools : East Tennessee State University Dissertation

An Intensive Social Skills Programme for a Group of Children with Special Educational Needs in a Comprehensive School: its Effect on their Personal Development and Implications for their Social Integration within the School : Alana Cowan Dissertation

Association for Research in Education : Peer Abuse as Child abuse and Indications for Intervention in Schools : Dr. Jean B. Healey

Australian Association for Research in Education - Assessing bullying behaviour of school students through the use of art : Elisabeth Betlem

Australian Catholic University : Relationship Transitions

Australian Government Attorney General's Department : A Meta-Evaluation of Methods and Approaches to Reducing Bullying in Pre-Schools and Early Primary School in Australia : Ken Rigby

Australian Department of Education, Science and Training : Key Information from the Literature about Bullying

Australian Department of Education, Science and Training : Key Information from the Literature about Bullying - Research Summary

Australian National University, Centre for Restorative Justice - A multiperspective comparison of bullying status groups: Family and school concerns Eliza Ahmed and Valerie Braithwaite

Autism Resource Centre (Singapore) - Coping with Bullying

BBC News - Education : Bullying best prevented by pupils

Bournemouth Council - Behaviour Support Plan

British Psychological Society - Bullies : Thugs or Thinkers?

Marilyn A. Campbell : Cyber bullying: An old problem in a new guise?

Cardiff City Council Schools Services - Bullying Matters (Appendix 3) : Bibliography

Educational Institute of Scotland - Improving the learning environment in schools through bullying and discipline strategies

Dr Ann Farrell : Bullying: A case for early intervention

George Abbot School, Guildford - Graduate Teachers Notes

Coosje Griffiths : A Systemwide Approach to Changing Attitudes Towards the Acceptability of Bullying or Harassment in Schools and Reducing Its Prevalence

Indian Sunday Times : Girls make worse bullies than boys

Indiana Department of Education, USA - Bullying Prevention

Isle of Wight - Preventing Bullying - Guidelines for Schools

Life Education Centres - PSHCE and Drug Education: Support for Schools

Methodist Ladies’ College, Australia - Junior School Handbook 2006

Newcastle Journal - Buddies help girls take step forward

Newcastle Journal - Bullying girls who make lives a misery
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Newcastle Journal - Hearing about bullying from the children

Newcastle Journal - How to tackle bullies

Newcastle Journal - Pupils tell it how it is

Newcastle Journal - Schools on Alert

Newcastle Journal - Why girls make better bullies

Newcastle Journal - Young buddies sign up to beat bullies

North East Lincolnshire Schools Library Service - Bully for You

North Eastern Health Board, Republic of Ireland, Responding to Bullying - First Steps for Teachers

Overcoming Victim Behaviour Through Physical Education (B.Ed. Dissertation)

Public Safety Canada - Bullying prevention in schools

Rio de Janeiro Government site - Espacos Tiranicos: Jovens, Agressao E Periferia Urbana (in Brazilian Portuguese)

Rio de Janeiro Government site - Diretoras podem comprar merenda das escolas (in Brazilian Portuguese)

Saskatchewan School Trustees Association Research Centre Report, Canada - The Nature and Prevalence of Bullying in Elementary Schools : A summary of a master's thesis by Noelle M. Bidwell

Scottish Council for Reseach in Education Centre (SCRE), Glasgow University - Which Way Now? : A Progress Report on Action Against Bullying in Scottish Schools : Andrew Mellor

Scottish Council for Reseach in Education Centre (SCRE), Glasgow University - Action Against Bullying

Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care - Bullying and Peer Abuse in Residential Child Care: A Brief Review

Taiwanese Journal of Education Research (in Taiwanese)

Telecom New Zealand and the New Zealand Police - Stop Bullying - Guidelines For Schools
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Times Educational Supplement : Review of Val's publication "Preventing and Responding to Bullying in Schools"

Times Educational Supplement - Signposts on the road to hell

Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium - Que faire pour reduire le "bullying" a l'ecole? (in French Belgian)

University of Hertfordshire, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences Homepages - Possible Connections between Bullying Behaviour, Empathy and Imitation

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Studijski program: Socialna Pedagogika (in Slovenian)

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Vkljucevanje Otroka S Posebnimi Potrebami V Osnovno Solo - Petra Petric (in Slovenian)

University of Madrid, "annals of psychology"- Variables de personalidad asociadas en la dinámica bullying (agresores versus víctimas) en niños y niñas de 10 a 15 años (in Spanish)

University of South Australia, Schools of Education - A meta-evaluation of methods and approaches to reducing bullying in pre-schools and early primary school in Australia
Second Link (Australian Government Attorney General's Department)

Western Mail (Wales) - The shocking truth about about girls who bully

Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia (Libby Petersen)

Wirral Globe - Pupils star in film to beat the bullies

Catalogues listing Val Besag publications

ACER Catalogue (Aus) - Australian Council for Educational Research (We Don't Have Bullies Here!)

Adaall.com Catalogue - USA (Bullies and Victims in Schools)

Bookfinder.com (Bullies and Victims in Schools)

NetStore USA.com (Bullies and Victims in Schools)

StudentBookWorld.com (Bullies and Victims in Schools)

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