Helen Cowie
Professor Helen Cowie MA; MSc; PhD; FBPS; PGCE; Diploma in Psychotherapy is Emeritus Professor in the Health and Social Care division of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey. 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.[1] Professor Cowie is currently Director of the UK Observatory for the Promotion of Non-Violence at the University of Surrey.[2]
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
| Date | Title | Conference | Venue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23–24 March 2006 | Violence in Schools Training Action (VISTA): a Whole School Approach | XII Seminar of Development | Coimbra, Portugal | |
| 28–29 March 2006 | Violence in Schools Training Action (VISTA): a Whole School Approach | 1st Violence and School Conference in Turkey | Istanbul, Turkey | |
| 9 May 2006 | Violence in Schools Training Action (VISTA): a Whole School Approach | Encuentro sobre convivencia escolar | Salamanca, Spain | |
| 19–20 August 2006 | The role of education in developing children's healthy minds | JPSA: Global Innovation and Activity in Education to Develop Children’s Healthy Minds | Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2–5 April 2007 | Peer support as a challenge to school bullying: the research evidence | Safer Schools Safer Communities | Ottawa, Canada | |
| 25–29 August 2007 | European initiatives to counteract school bullying | 13th International Congress of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | Florence, Italy | |
| August 2008 | A whole-school approach to tackling school violence | Teachers’ Summer School Hiroshima University | Hiroshima, Japan | |
| August 2008 | Understanding why some children engage in bullying | Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Education | Hiroshima, Japan | |
| August 2008 | Bullying in the workplace | Global COE Program Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University | Kyoto, Japan | |
| October 2008 | Training UK teachers to train students as peer supporters | JPSA Conference | Sapporo, Japan | |
| 30 January 2009 | The current situation of peer support in the UK | Osaka City Education Centre Conference | Osaka, Japan | |
| 13–15 March 2009 | Counselling-based interventions to address the issue of school bullying | Association of Chinese and Mongolian International Schools (ACAMIS) Conference | Beijing, China | |
| 19–22 July 2010 | Can young people themselves help prevent cyberbullying? What research tells us. | EARLI (JURE) Conference Connecting Diverse Perspectives on Learning and Instruction | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| 14 September 2010 | tba | ESRC Seminar Series Restorative Justice | Nottingham | |
| 25–26 October 2010 | The impact of cyberbullying on the emotional wellbeing of children and young people | Hospital Medicine 3rd Annual Conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Anxiety and Depression 2010: Diagnosis and Management | London, UK |
References
- ↑ Professor Cowie's website at Surrey University
- ↑ "UK Observatory for the Promotion of Non-Violence". Retrieved 27 June 2013.