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Helen Cowie
British social scientist

Helen Cowie

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Helen Cowie FBPS, PGCE, is Emeritus Professor in the Health and Social Care division of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey.

Career

She is concerned with the promotion of emotional health and well-being in children and young people and is a world authority on bullying in schools, the home and the workplace. Professor Cowie is currently Director of the UK Observatory for the Promotion of Non-Violence at the University of Surrey.

Honorary positions

  • 1998–present: Fellow of the British Psychological Society
  • 2008-2009: Visiting Professor at Hiroshima University, Japan
  • 2010 – present: Visiting Professor at Brunel University. UK
  • 2010 – present: Docent Professor at Abo Akademi University, Vaasa, Finland

Publications

Selected Books

  • New Perspectives on Bullying, Cowie, H. & Jennifer, D. (2008) Maidenhead: Open University Press
  • Managing Violence in Schools, Cowie, H. & Jennifer, D. (2007) London: Sage Publications
  • Understanding Children’s Development, Smith, P.K., Cowie, H. & Blades, M. (Fifth Edition) (2010, in press). Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Emotional Health and Well-Being, Cowie, H., Boardman, C., Dawkins, J. & Jennifer, D. (2004) London: Sage Publications
  • Peer Support in Action, Cowie, H. & Wallace, P. (2000) London: Sage Publications

Recent journal articles

  • Smith, P. & Cowie, H. (2010) Perspectives on emotional labour and bullying: reviewing the role of emotions in nursing and healthcare, International Journal of Work Organization and Emotion, 3(3): 227-236.
  • Cowie, H. and Kurihara, S. (2009) Peer support in Japan: inside and outside perspectives, Gendai Esprit, 502, 61-72.
  • Allan, H. T., Cowie, H. & Smith, P. A. (2009) Overseas nurses’ experiences of discrimination: a case of racist bullying? Journal of Nursing Management, 17: 898-906
  • Cowie, H. (2009) Understanding why children and young people engage in bullying, Hiroshima University Journal of Learning Science, 2, 103-110.
  • Naylor, P., Cowie, H., Dawkins, J., Talamelli, L. & Walters, J. (2009) Impact of a mental health teaching programme on adolescents: a two-group pre-test post-test control group design, British Journal of Psychiatry,194, 365-370.
  • Cowie, H. (2009) Tackling cyberbullying: A cross cultural comparison, International Journal of Emotional Education, 1(2): 3-13.
  • Cowie, H., Hutson, N., Oztug, O. and Myers, C. (2008) The impact of peer support schemes on pupils’ perceptions of bullying, aggression and safety at school, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 13(1): 63-71.
  • Cowie, H. and Oztug, O. (2008) Pupils’ perceptions of safety at school, Pastoral Care in Education, 26(2): 59-67.
  • Myers, C., Hutson, N., Cowie, H. & Jennifer, D. 2008) Taking stock of violence in UK schools: risk, regulation and responsibility, Education and Urban Society, 40(4): 494-505.
  • Hutson, N. & Cowie, H. (2007) Setting an e-mail peer support scheme, Pastoral Care in Education, 25(4): 12-16.
  • Cowie, H., Hutson, N. & Myers, C. (2007) Young offenders in prison – perceptions of mental health disorders and their treatment: a qualitative analysis. International Journal on Violence at School, 4, 3-18.

Recent book chapters

  • Cowie, H. & Smith, P. K. (2010 in press) "Peer support as a means of improving school safety and reducing bullying and violence". In B. Doll, J. Charvat, J. Baker & G. Stoner (Eds.) Handbook of Prevention Research. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum
  • Cowie, H. (2010 in press) Understanding why children and young people engage in bullying at school. In C. Barter & D. Berridge (eds.) Children Behaving Badly? Exploring Peer Violence Between Children and Young People.
  • Cowie, H. (2010) Peer support in Japan: a perspective from the outside. In K. Östermann (ed.) Indirect and Direct Aggression. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, pp. 133–142.
  • Cowie, H. (2010) Core interventions to counteract school bullying. In T. Aoki (Ed.) Moral Education in Schools. Tokyo: Ya Publications.
  • Cowie, H. (2009) Peer support challenges school bullying. In C. Cefai & P. Cooper (eds.) Promoting Emotional Education. London: Jessica Kingsley. (chapter 6)
  • Jennifer, D. & Cowie, H. (2009) Engaging Children and Young People Actively in Research. In K. Bryan (ed.) Communication in Healthcare . London: Peter Lang European Academic Publishers
  • Cowie, H. (2007) Programa de actuación para la violencia escolar (VISTA): un marco global para la escuela. In M. de Esteban Villar (ed.) Nuevos Retos para Convivir en las Aulas: Construyendo La Escuela Cīvica. Madrid: Fundación Europea Sociedad y Educación.
  • Cowie, H. (2006) Young people themselves tackle the problem of school violence. In Österman, K., & Björkqvist, K. (Eds.). Contemporary research on aggression. Volume I: School violence. Proceedings of the XVI World Meeting of the International Society for Research on Aggression, Santorini, Greece, 2004. Åbo, Finland: Åbo Akademi University. pp 108–114.

International keynote conference presentations

DateTitleConferenceLocation
23–24 March 2006Violence in Schools Training Action (VISTA): a Whole School ApproachXII Seminar of DevelopmentCoimbra, Portugal
28–29 March 2006Violence in Schools Training Action (VISTA): a Whole School Approach1st Violence and School Conference in TurkeyIstanbul, Turkey
9 May 2006Violence in Schools Training Action (VISTA): a Whole School ApproachEncuentro sobre convivencia escolarSalamanca, Spain
19–20 August 2006The role of education in developing children's healthy mindsJPSA: Global Innovation and Activity in Education to Develop Children’s Healthy MindsTokyo, Japan
2–5 April 2007Peer support as a challenge to school bullying: the research evidenceSafer Schools Safer CommunitiesOttawa, Canada
25–29 August 2007European initiatives to counteract school bullying13th International Congress of the European Society for Child and Adolescent PsychiatryFlorence, Italy
August 2008A whole-school approach to tackling school violenceTeachers’ Summer School Hiroshima UniversityHiroshima, Japan
August 2008Understanding why some children engage in bullyingHiroshima University, Graduate School of EducationHiroshima, Japan
August 2008Bullying in the workplaceGlobal COE Program Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan UniversityKyoto, Japan
October 2008Training UK teachers to train students as peer supportersJPSA ConferenceSapporo, Japan
30 January 2009The current situation of peer support in the UKOsaka City Education Centre ConferenceOsaka, Japan
13–15 March 2009Counselling-based interventions to address the issue of school bullyingAssociation of Chinese and Mongolian International Schools (ACAMIS) ConferenceBeijing, China
19–22 July 2010Can young people themselves help prevent cyberbullying? What research tells us.EARLI (JURE) Conference Connecting Diverse Perspectives on Learning and InstructionFrankfurt am Main, Germany
14 September 2010tbaESRC Seminar Series Restorative JusticeNottingham
25–26 October 2010The impact of cyberbullying on the emotional wellbeing of children and young peopleHospital Medicine 3rd Annual Conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Anxiety and Depression 2010: Diagnosis and ManagementLondon, UK
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