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PROFESSOR ANDREAS KAPARDIS
Is Professor of Legal Psychology in the Department of Law, University of Cyprus, a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Criminology, a Life-Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and an elected Full Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He studied in England and holds a Ph.D in Criminology from Cambridge University.
His main research and teaching interests lie in the Criminal sciences- criminology, criminal justice, penology, and forensic psychology. For a number of years he was a university academic in Australia. He has researched a broad range of offenders, sentencing, criminal justice, and legal psychology internationally and has published extensively, including: Baldry, A.C & Kapardis, A., 2013, Risk Assessment for Violent Offending, Routledge; Kapardis, A., 2014, Psychology and Law (4th edition) by Cambridge University Press; and Kapardis, A. & Farrington, D.P., 2016, The Psychology of Crime Policing and the Courts, Routledge. He is President of the Cyprus Society of Criminology. He is married with three children and loves sport.
Presentation Title: Accounting for monoepisodic mass murder and murderers: a challenge for contemporary criminological psychology.
Professor Constantinos M. Kokkinos
Constantinos M. Kokkinos received his Master’s (1994) and PhD (1997) in Educational Psychology from the University of Manchester, UK. He was appointed full professor in Educational Psychology in 2015 at the Department of Primary Education, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece where he teaches since 2002. He has taught as a visiting scholar at several European Universities. He has been researching aggressive behavior (bullying, cyber-bullying, relational aggression) for the past 15 years. Some of his recent research includes the intertwining role of individual differences (personality, social cognition), parenting, attachment and peer relationships in traditional and cyber bullying/victimization.
He has presented his research in national and international conferences and he has co-authored more than 50 peer reviewed articles in international journals and book chapters in addition to several Greek papers.
Presentation Title: Relational aggression among adolescents: Evidence from 3 years of systematic research.
Professor Christina Salmivalli
Christina Salmivalli, PhD, is a Professor of psychology at the University of Turku, Finland. She has done research on children's peer relations and bullying for more than 25 years. She has led the development of the KiVa antibullying program, with funding from the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture. The KiVa program has been awarded both nationally and internationally, and is widely implemented in Finland and elsewhere. Salmivalli has published numerous widely cited articles, book chapters, and books on children’s peer relations and school bullying. Her current research interests include different approaches to tackle bullying and their effectiveness, the sustainability of the implementation of prevention programs, and mediating mechanisms of program effects.
Presentation Title: Implementation and effects of the KiVa antibullying progam in Finland across eight years
Professor Robert Thornberg
Robert Thornberg, PhD is a Professor at the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Linköping University. He is the Secretary of the Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA). Dr. Thornberg's current research is on school bullying, especially in terms of social and moral processes and bystander reactions and actions. In an ongoing research project, he and his lab examine bullying and various bystander behavior in bullying together with a range of predictors such as moral disengagement, defender self-efficacy, student–teacher relationships, classroom climate, collective moral disengagement, and collective efficacy to stop aggression.
Presentation Title: ”We’re just joking, it’s her own fault, and don’t blame me”: Moral disengagement and school bullying
Professor Essi Viding
Essi Viding is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London and adjunct faculty at Yale University Medical School Child Study Center. Her research combines a variety of methodologies in an effort to chart different developmental pathways to persistent antisocial behaviour. Professor Viding has received several prizes for her work, including the British Academy Wiley Prize in Psychology, Society for Scientific Study of Psychopathy Early Career Award, The British Psychological Society Spearman Medal, The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and the Turin Mind & Brain Prize.
Presentation Title: Uncovering different developmental pathways to antisocial behaviour
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