Shelley Hymel is a

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and professor at the

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(UBC) in

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. Her research focuses on issues related to

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, children's peer relationships, and social-emotional learning.

Biography

Hymel earned her Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Illinois in 1982. She was a faculty member at the University of Waterloo before joining the Department of Education at UBC in 1993. Hymel is the co-founder, along with Susan Swearer, of the
Bullying Research Network
', a group that links more 200 researchers from more than 17 countries in the field of bullying and peer victimization.

Awards

* 2015: UBC Killam Research Prize * 2015: University of Illinois Education Alumni Association (EAA) Distinguished Alumni Award

Selected works

* Hymel, S., & Swearer, S.M. (2015). Four decades of research on school bullying: An introduction. ''American Psychologist'', ''70 (4)'', 300–310. * Swearer, S.M., & Hymel, S. (2015). Understanding the bullying dynamic: Moving toward a social-ecological diathesis-stress model. ''American Psychologist'', ''70 (4),''344-353. * Hymel, S. & Bonanno, R. (2014). Moral disengagement processes in bullying. ''Theory into Practice. 53,'' 278–285. * Hymel, S., Rocke-Henderson, N. & Bonanno, R.A. (2005). Moral disengagement: A framework for understanding bullying among adolescents. ''Journal of Social Sciences, 8,'' 1-11''.'' * Vaillancourt, T., Hymel, S., & McDougall, P. (2003). Bullying is power: Implications for school-based intervention strategies. Special issue: ''Journal of Applied School Psychology, 19,'' 157–175.

References

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