Research Center

A nationally representative Pew Research Center survey of 4,248 U.S. adults exploring online abuse and harassment from various perspectives.

A Cybersmile survey of 50,000 internet users across all 50 states of the U.S. and the entire U.K. exploring bystander experiences of cyberbullying and online abuse. The survey covers issues including racism, homophobia, harassment, religion, social media abuse and more.

Read the results of our Stop Cyberbullying Day polls conducted with Sugarscape to celebrate our annual celebration in 2015! Find out what young people are REALLY thinking about the online world right now.

This 2014 article by Scott W. Campbell and Yong Jin Park is taken from the journal Mobile Media & Communication and examines precursors to sexting behaviour in teenagers, as well as possible methods of addressing the issue.

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Dr. Michele Siderman is a school principal in Kentwood, Michigan. Her study examines the pathways and experiences of students who have cyberbullied others and suggests areas of focus for schools, parents and teachers who wish to prevent cyberbullying behaviour in children they care for.

Study by Heather Benzmiller from Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 107, No. 2. This interesting paper examines the Samaritan role of onlookers who see cyberbullying in occurence and looks at how they should perhaps deal with this situation, as well as possible legal ramifications.

***Article contains occasional bad language in the context of cyberbullying experienced.

An article from researchers at The University of British Columbia and The University of the Fraser Valley, examining the similarities and differences between “traditional” face-to-face bullying and the growing trend of cyberbullying using the internet. Published in the Journal of Computers and Human Behaviour.

An investigative inquiry by Dr. Julie Smith (University of Minnesota) and Dr. Jiyoon Yoon (University of Texas Arlington) published in 2013. While many think of cyberbullying as a problem mainly confined to secondary education, this study finds strong evidence of incidents at the college level and discusses the serious effects on life and learning.

A study of cyberbullying in the workplace written in 2013 exclusively for The Cybersmile Foundation by Sam Farley, Doctoral Researcher at the University of Sheffield.

Written in 2011 by Saima Tarapdar, with the support of Professor Mary Kellett, Director of the Children’s Research Centre, Open University. The research was commissioned by the Diana Award as part of the Anti-Bullying Ambassadors Programme, funded by the Department for Education.