Speakers
Cyberbullying on campus: policy and practice in a 'lawless' world
Conference chair
Lecturer in Law and Information Technology
Queen's University Belfast
Lecturer in media and journalism
University of Huddersfield
Lecturer in international health services research
UCL
Head of Undergraduate Admissions
University of Nottingham
Associate Professor in Occupational Psychology
University of Nottingham
Student and anti-cyberbullying campaigner
Reader in Law and Information Technology
Liverpool John Moores University
Lecturer in Law
Edinburgh Napier University
Professor of Management and Co-Director of Centre for Research on Workplace Behaviours
University of Glamorgan
Reader in Psychology
Nottingham Trent University
Christine Hodgson
Conference chair
Christine Hodgson is a journalist and former teacher. Until 2000 she was head of communications and publicity at the University of East London, and she is currently completing a PhD on twentieth century London novels.
Subhajit Basu
School of Law
Queen's University Belfast
Subhajit Basu graduated from University College of Law, Calcutta University (India) in 1997. He was called to the West Bengal Bar and worked as a solicitor and advocate specialising in corporate law. He did a PhD at Liverpool John Moores University, on 'Taxation of E-Commerce from a Global Perspective' in 2003.
He is the book review editor for International Review of Law, Computers and Technology (IRLCT). Reviewer for the editorial reviewer board of the International Journal of E-Government Research (IJEGR), IRLCT, JILT, Scientific Journals International (SJI), International Reviewer of Social Science Computer Review (SSCORE) and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Advances in Electronic Government Research (AEGR) book series, a member of the international editorial advisory board of AKCSN, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Information and Communication Technologies and Human Development.
Subhajit's biography has been included in the Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2006-2007, 2007-2008,2008-2009 for his contribution in the field of social and legal science.
He joined the school of law at Queen's University Belfast in 2003 and is extensively involved with research related to e-government-developing countries and the issue of the digital divide, governance of cyberspace and role of politics, technology and law in IT, implication of information and communication technologies for the growth of criminal and deviant identities and behavior on the internet, and the role of technology in economic development of developing countries.
He is a member of the executive committee of BILETA. He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of: the Society of Legal Scholars, Tax Research Network (UK), Digital Divide Network, and a member and reviewer of LEFIS (EU project on IT and legal education). Subhajit is also a visiting professor at the National Law University, India, and author of the book Global Perspectives on Taxation of E-Commerce Law.
Amy Binns
Lecturer in media and journalism
University of Huddersfield
Amy Binns, lecturer, originally trained as a photographer before becoming a reporter. She came to the University of Huddersfield from the Yorkshire Post, where she worked as a reporter for several years. Prior to that, she worked on various local newspapers across the North.
She teaches practical and theoretical journalism, including writing and interviewing skills, practical law, desk top publishing using Adobe Indesign, and politics and world affairs.
She has also introduced podcasting to the second year students on the journalism and media and English and media courses, and will be introducing video training from September 2009. These skills reflect the growing demand for print journalists to work across different platforms.
Petra Boynton
Lecturer in international health services research
UCL
Petra Boynton is a lecturer in international health services research, department of primary care and population health, University College London, where she lectures postgraduate students in social research methods and evidence based approaches. She specialises in research on sex and relationships health.
Over the past decade Petra has been completing research and running workshops on improving the quality of social/health research. Her book, The Research Companion: a practical guide for the social and health sciences (Psychology Press), puts issues of tackling safety, wellbeing and bullying at the centre of good research practice.
This work initially arose through her own experience of researching sensitive subjects (prostitution, sexual dysfunction and media effects of sexually explicit materials). However, discussions with academics and students at training events indicated many were experiencing fewer problems 'in the field' and more difficulties within their departments - after being bullied by colleagues, managers or supervisors.
As a result of this in 2005 Petra ran a UK-wide online survey on bullying within academia, assisted by the Times Higher Education. Over 800 academic- and academic-related staff replied, indicating a wide range of behaviours experienced as bullying.
Petra's work has since involved making sense of the experience of being bullied within academic environments, both in 'real life' and 'cyber' contexts.
Petra applies her research by working as an agony aunt with teenagers and adults in both online, print and broadcast media. She is currently Agony Aunt at teen website www.mykindaplace.com and men's site www.mansized.co.uk, and in print magazines More! and Beauty Zambia. Her work on understanding communication on self harm led to her serving on the government's National Inquiry into Self Harm.
Thomas Chesney
Head of Undergraduate Admissions
Nottingham University Business School
Thomas Chesney is a member of the International Centre For Behavioural Business Research. He has a PhD in information systems from Brunel University, an MSc in informatics from the University of Edinburgh, and a BSc in information management from Queen's University Belfast. He is co-author of Principles of Business Information Systems, published by Cengage Learning. His research examines people's interaction with, and reaction to, information systems.
Iain Coyne
Associate Professor in Occupational Psychology
Institute of Work, Health & Organisations, University of Nottingham
Iain Coyne is associate professor in occupational psychology and a chartered psychologist and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
His research interests include bullying at work and productive and counterproductive behaviour in the workplace and he has written a number of papers and has presented at national and international conferences on these areas. Currently, Dr Coyne is a management committee member of a European COST programme examining cyber-bullying within an educational context.
Alex Henderson
Undergraduate and anti-bullying campaigner
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Alexander J.R. Henderson is a student in the upper sixth at MacMillan Academy in Middlesbrough.
Alex has been campaigning vigorously against cyberbullying for well over a year, and the campaign has grown beyond anything he ever anticipated or even hoped for. Alex battles cyberbullying on many different fronts and works with as many different audiences as possible; this has included working with Channel 4, being a producer of a theatre company and working as a volunteer.
Alex’s career aspirations are to eventually, after many years of training, qualify as a doctor and specialise in either general practise or intensive care medicine.
Photo: courtesy Middlesbrough Evening Gazette
Richard Jones
Reader in Law and Information Technology
Liverpool John Moores University
Richard Jones is reader in law and information technology and teaches information technology law, intellectual property law and family law on the LL.B and offers cyberspace law for other schools in the university. At postgraduate level Richard teaches the modules cyberspace law and intellectual property law.
Richard was chair of the British and Irish Legal Educational Technology Association (BILETA) and a council member of the Society for Computers and the Law. He is now assistant editor of the International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, and is a member of the editorial board and joint editor of JILT and of the Liverpool Law Review (Kluwer Publications).
Richard’s research interests are in the law of ethnic minorities, technology and the law, and law teaching and technology. He was invited by the Council of Europe to work in this area and awarded a research fellowship with IBM to investigate legal expert systems.
Richard has published articles in the International Review on E-Commerce, IT Law in SE Asia and Creative Commons Licences and has recently published in Cybercrime.
(Jones, R and Basu, S. Regulating Cyberstalking in Crimes of the Internet. (2008) Ed. Frank Schmalleger and Michael Pittaro. Prentice Hall I0132318865.) Also published in The Journal of Information Law and Technology (JILT).
In 1998, 2003, 2005 and 2009 he edited issues of the International Review on IT and Criminal Justice, E-Commerce, IT Law in SE Asia and Cybercrime.
Alan Reid
Lecturer
Edinburgh Napier University
Alan S. Reid is a lecturer in law at Edinburgh Napier University. He specialises in European Union law, with a particular emphasis upon information technology law. He has over ten years experience as an academic and has written widely on the subject of child protection and communication law.
Most recently, in 2009, he completed the Communications Law update for the Stair Memorial Encyclopedia of the Laws of Scotland. The Stair Memorial Encyclopedia is the definitive source of Scots Law. In 2008, Alan was asked to become a consultant on the legal issues surrounding child protection at the European level for ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute. Other notable contributions include a chapter for the Policy Press book New technology and the legal implications for child protection from 2007 dealing with child grooming and sexual offences in England and Wale, and an article on the legal implications for child protection wrought by the roll-out of 3G mobile phones from 2005.
Michael Sheehan
Professor of Management and Co-Director of Centre for Research on Workplace Behaviours
Glamorgan Business School, University of Glamorgan
Michael Sheehan is Professor of Management and a Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Workplace Behaviours. He joined the University in December 2004 as the head of the department of leadership, learning and management at University of Glamorgan, a position he held until October 2007.
Michael’s interests are in researching and teaching in human resource management and organisational behaviour. His research interests relate primarily to the impact of organisational change on individuals, in particular workplace bullying; and individuals' experience of learning and implementing new skills such as those of group process facilitation. He has acted as a consultant to a number of public and private sector organisations in Australia and the UK and has presented a number of seminars and workshops in the public and private sectors since joining the University.
In 1997 he was the co-recipient of The Australian Heads of Government Australian Violence Prevention Award 1997, Certificate of Merit, (Joint project with School of OB&HRM, Beyond Bullying Association Inc., & Qld Working Women’s Service).
He has published a number of national and international journal articles in refereed journals such as the International Journal of Organizational Behaviour, International Journal of Manpower, The Journal of Occupational Health and Safety-Australia and New Zealand, The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling, and Industrial and Commercial Training. He has also been the guest editor of special editions related to workplace bullying of the International Journal of Manpower, The Journal of Occupational Health and Safety-Australia and New Zealand, the International Journal of Management and Decision Making and the International Journal of Organisational Behaviour.
Michael is the co-editor of the books: Bullying: From Backyard to Boardroom, (1996) Millennium Books, Alexandria; Bullying: Causes, Costs and Cures, Beyond Bullying Association, Brisbane; and Bullying: From Backyard to Boardroom, (1999) Kobfai Publishing Co, Thailand, (Translated into Thai). He has published chapters in these books as well as in other books.
He has presented a number of conference papers at international conferences, and has been an invited keynote speaker to a number of those conferences. He is an invited member of: the Programmes Board for Public Sector Management Wales (PSMW); Workplace Dignity Institute Foundation for the Study of Work Trauma, South Africa; the advisory board, The Workplace Bullying & Trauma Institute, USA, and he is featured in the Who's Who section of The Journal of Occupational Health and Safety-Australia and New Zealand (1998). He is a chartered fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (Chartered FCIPD).
Monica Whitty
Reader in Psychology
Nottingham Trent University
Dr Monica Whitty is reader in psychology in the division of psychology at Nottingham Trent University. She is the first author of ‘Cyberspace Romance: The Psychology of Online Relationships’ (2006, Palgrave) with Adrian Carr, and ‘Truth, Lies and Trust on the Internet’ (2008, Routledge) with Adam Joinson. She has published widely on the following topics: online dating, cyber-relationships, internet infidelity, online identity, possible selves, misrepresentation of self online, cyberstalking, cyberethics, and internet surveillance in the workplace.
