Helen Cowie

University of Surrey (UK)

Helen Cowie is Emeritus Professor at the University of Surrey, UK, in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She has numerous publications in refereed journals on the subject of mental health and youth, emotional development, bullying, cyberbullying and peer support. She has authored and co-authored a number of influential books, including Managing School Violence (with Dawn Jennifer, Sage Publications), New Perspectives on Bullying (with Dawn Jennifer, Open University Press), From Birth to Sixteen (Routledge) and Bullying Among University Students (with Carrie-Anne Myers, Routledge). Understanding Children’s Development (John Wiley), co-authored with Peter K Smith and Mark Blades and now into its 6th Edition, remains one of the most popular undergraduate texts in the field.