Well-Being, Positive Peer Relations and Bullying in School Settings / Positive Education (PDF)

Phillip Slee is Professor in Human Development in the School of Education and is a trained teacher and registered psychologist. He is also Director of the Student Wellbeing & Prevention of Violence (SWAPv) Research Centre at Flinders. Professor Slee has published extensively in the field of child development, bullying, school violence and stress, and has produced educational resources in the form of videos and resource packages. He has presented his work nationally and internationally in workshops and lectures. Presently, he is undertaking a number of international research projects on the topic of school violence with researchers from Japan, Korea, China, Canada, England, and the USA. Grace teaches pre-service primary and secondary teachers and works collaboratively with other researchers at Flinders University. She also supervises research projects of postgraduate students. Grace has been involved with the team working on the Australian child wellbeing project, the qualitative data collection and analysis of the KidsMatter evaluation, and with the data collection and statistical data analysis of a bullying intervention, which formed part of the ARC Southern Schools Project. In her teaching, Grace lectures in science curriciulum topics, assisting pre-service to develop science pedagogy for primary and secondary science. Her background includes research on adolescent health with CSIRO and with adolescent offenders at the Office of Crime Statistics and Research (OCSAR) in South Australia. A former high school teacher her interest in adolescent behaviour and well-being continues to be the major focus of her research and she is a member of the Student Wellbeing & Prevention of Violence (SWAPv) Research Centre at Flinders University.