You are warmly invited to join us for a CSPACE Research Event that will take place on 20 February.

From 13:00 - 14:00 at Ravensbury 114.

Presenter 1: Dr Elizabeth Nassemn is a research assistant in CSPACE. Her research focuses on pupils’ experiences of school bullying and she develops pupil-led interventions to resolve bullying.

Pupils’ Experiences of Sexual Bullying :This presentation draws upon my research into pupils’ experiences of sexual bullying. Most research on sexual bullying focuses on the sexual bullying of females by male perpetrators and the bullying of LGBT pupils. However, in this study the various experiences males and females have had of sexual bullying will be analysed. Furthermore, the sexual bullying between pupils and teachers will also be addressed. How sexually abusive behaviours can become normalised will also be discussed. Recommendations will be provided for how relationships education and sex education can be taught in schools including how healthy relationships between pupils, and pupils and teachers can be developed.

Presenter 2: Andrea Anastassiou : I am a third-year PhD student/ Assistant Lecturer at Birmingham City University exploring teen sexting and how the experience of it differs depending on the type of school a young person attends.

Sexting and teenagers :The term “sexting” refers to the sending and receiving of sexually explicit imagery via some form of virtual messaging. Though sexting is by no means restricted to young people (Klettke, Hallford, & Mellor, 2014), it is the participation of teenagers and the effect it has on their well-being which has led to widespread concern from parents, educators and the media alike. Despite this, there is currently a lack of in-depth, qualitative investigations into teen-sexting (Yeung, et al 2014). This has resulted in calls for investigations which explore the nuances of this behaviour (Wood et al, 2015) and how it changes in different contexts (Burkett, 2015). This session will provide an account of a researcher’s experience of gaining access to secondary schools in the West Midlands to conduct a qualitative teen-sexting investigation. The project aimed to identify how experiences and opinions of sexting differ depending on the type of school a young person attends (single-sex or co-educational).

The session will also explore the main barriers encountered when negotiating access to schools and gaining ethical clearance as well as discussion and implications of the preliminary findings.

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