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Camilla Forsberg

Associate Professor, Docent

Children's perspectives' on bullying

Camilla Forsberg's research focus on children's perspective on bullying and how children understand bullying. 

In her completed thesis she studied how children made sense of bullying, how they described and defined bullying situations and how they reasoned on their reactions. Her postdoctoral research was focused on how identity processes, social categories and gender are related to and become interlinked with bullying. Her current research focus on how school bullying is related to the social, institutional, cultural, and historical contexts within which it occurs. She also explores LGBTIQ+ youth's lived experiences of homophobic bullying at school.

 

Publications

2024

Camilla Forsberg (2024) Designing Interview Studies on School Bullying Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory Approach. The Routledge International Handbook of Constructivist Grounded Theory in Educational Research, p. 117-131 (Chapter in book)
Paul Horton, Andrew Webb, Camilla Forsberg, Robert Thornberg (2024) 'He's actually very kind': bullying figurations and the call of capital British Journal of Sociology of Education (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Camilla Forsberg, Paul Horton, Robert Thornberg (2024) How school-built factors and organisational dimensions contribute to bodily exposure, degrading treatment and bullying in school changing rooms Sport, Education and Society (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Camilla Forsberg, Björn Sjögren, Robert Thornberg, Jun Sung Hong, Claudio Longobardi (2024) Longitudinal reciprocal associations between student-teacher relationship quality and verbal and relational bullying victimization Social Psychology of Education, Vol. 27, p. 151-173 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Paul Horton, Camilla Forsberg, Robert Thornberg (2024) Blurred boundaries and the hierarchization of incidents: Swedish schoolteachers' struggles with distinguishing degrading treatment, harassment, and school bullying Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 68, p. 160-171 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

More information about Camilla Forsberg

Networks

The NERA Network of Value Issues and Social Relations in Education

The School Bullying Research Group

Social media

ResearchGate Camilla Forsberg

Academia Camilla Forsberg

Collaboration

Bullab- collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Georgia State University

Commissions

Editor of the interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal Confero: Essays on Education, Philosphy & Politics.

Research

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LGBTIQ+ young people's lived experiences of homophobic bullying in Swedish Schools

In 2023, a research project will start at IBL, the department of behavioral science and learning, at Linköping University, where we will investigate LGBTIQ+ youth's experiences of homophobic bullying at school.

In the study, LGBTIQ+ high school youth aged 16-19 are interviewed about their direct or indirect experiences of homophobic bullying; how they perceive these experiences to have affected their sense of wellbeing; what support and/or assistance they perceive was provided to those who were bullied; and which forms of support and/or assistance the young people perceive to be most effective for dealing with and protecting against homophobic bullying in schools.

Through this project we will learn more about experiences of homophobic bullying, the associated effects on wellbeing; and what might be protective factors. This area of research has been unexplored in Sweden. Answering these questions will therefore address several lacunae in knowledge about young LGBTIQ+ people’s experiences of homophobic bullying in the Swedish context.

The project is approved by the Ethical Review Board and financed by the Swedish Research Council.

Participate in the study

To register for the study, use this link.

For questions, please contact the research leader Camilla Forsberg, Associate professor in Education, phone: +46 13- 28 58 92.


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