About Unit for School and Family Studies

As a group, our research profile is diverse and inter-disciplinary. Our main areas of current work are:

• Understanding antisocial and disruptive behaviour in the classroom; by profiling strengths and weaknesses in students at risk of social and academic exclusion, and by evaluating intervention strategies for children attending schools for pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
• Bullying and social inclusion in schools: understanding bullying and violence in schools and the success of different anti-bullying strategies; investigations into cyberbullying; profiling social, emotional and behavioural correlates of direct and indirect bullying behaviours; comparative work on bullying in England and globally, including Europe, India, Australia and Japan.
• Understanding the development of social behaviour during the pre-school period, through longitudinal studies with parents; and an evaluation of Tales Toolkit, a novel method of teaching social problem-solving in pre-school.

Further information and published papers are available via the Unit's research and members pages.