How can we prevent and reduce bullying amongst university students?

摘要

While it has long been recognized that bullying occurs at school and in the workplace,udrecent research confirms that bullying also takes place among university students,udincluding undergraduates, post-graduates and doctoral research students. In the UK, theudNational Union of Students (NUS) alerted staff and students to the issue in a series ofudreports but it is not confined to the UK. Authors in the book edited by Cowie and Myersud(2016a, 2016b) present cross-national findings on the theme of bullying amonguduniversity students (Pörhöla et al., 2016). In this article we discuss the urgent need forudinterventions to prevent and reduce bullying in this context. We also indicate the areasudwhere little or no intervention is taking place, notably in the field of university policy.