Member Name:

Larri

Member Since:

October 21, 2008

Last Logged in:

October 23, 2008

A few words about me...

Before coming to Flinders University in 1992, Larry had a twenty year career in the South Australian Department of Education and Children’s Services in a range of roles including classroom teaching (mainly secondary), faculty coordination, curriculum advising for the disadvantaged country areas programme and in educational psychology. Larry is currently a Professor in the School of Education at Flinders. He is the Associate Head (Teaching and Learning) for the Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law and Theology. He teaches in areas related to peer relationships and student behaviour and in introductory research methods topics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research interests are concerned with boys’ and girls’ aggressive behaviours, especially teenage girls’ indirect aggression. He is a chief investigator on the national mental health Kidsmatter evaluation and on an ARC linkage grant to investigate well-being in southern Adelaide school communities. He supervises Honours, Educational Doctorate and PhD students. He has international collaboration with colleagues in Britain and has active involvement with the International Society for Research on Aggression. He has administrative experience as School Dean, as Associate Dean and in coordinating the Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Special Education programmes. His recent consultancies include critiquing and technical editing a report on good practice principles in youth development for the South Australian Government Office of Youth Affairs and evaluations of Federal Government Quality Teaching Programme Projects.



Research Interests

Larry’s research is concerned with gender differences in aggressive behaviours among school students. He has developed expertise in the area of teenage girls’ indirect forms of aggression. He uses both quantitative and qualitative research methods. His current research projects include:



A collaborative investigation with Dr Neil Duncan of Wolverhampton University into teenage girls and their aggressive social power.

An investigation into teenage boys’ aggression toward girls (in association with Professors Rosalind Shute, Ballarat University, and Phillip Slee, Flinders University).

Membership of the Flinders University evaluation team for the national Kidsmatter trial being conducted in 2007-2008.

One of the chief investigators on an ARC linkage grant investigating well-being in a group of schools in the southern suburbs of Adelaide (2007-09).

A chief invesigator on a DEST funded study into the human dimensions of covert and especially cyber bullying.

Areas for Postgraduate Student Supervision

Aggression in schools - in particular, girls' aggression

Peer mediation in schools

Children's peer relationships

Teaching Areas

Student Behaviour and Social Development

Approaches to Research

Development, Learning and Inclusive Teaching

Recent (Selected) Publications

Shute, R.H., Owens, L., & Slee, P. (2008). Everyday victimization of adolescent girls by boys: Sexual harassment, bullying or aggression? Sex Roles. 58, 477-489.



Gregoric, C. & Owens, L. (2008). The effectiveness of peer support leadership training in a South Australian School. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth. 14, 93-112



Owens, L., Shute, R., & Slee, P. (2007). "They do it just to show off". Year 9 girls', boys' and teachers' explanations for boys' aggression to girls. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 13, 343-360.



Owens, L., Shute, R., & Slee, P. (2005). “In the eye of the beholder …”: Girls’, boys and teachers’ perceptions of boys’ aggression to girls. International Education Journal, 5 (5), 142-151..



Owens, L., Daly, A., & Slee, P. (2005). Sex and age differences in victimization and conflict resolution among adolescents in a South Australian school. Aggressive Behavior, 31 (1), 1-12.



Owens, L., Shute, R., & Slee, P. (2004). Girls’ aggressive behavior. The Prevention Researcher, 11, 3, pp. 9-10.



Professional Memberships

International Society for Research on Aggression

Australian Guidance and Counselling Association

Administrative Responsibilities

Associate Head of Faculty (Teaching and Learning)

Associate Dean (Academic) School of Education

Membership of Faculty Heads Advisory Group

Membership of Faculty Strategic Planning Group

Faculty representative on University Educational Matters Advisory Group

Tertiary representative on South Australian Teachers Registration Board