Member Name:

k_rigby

Member Since:

October 24, 2008

Last Logged in:

October 30, 2008

A few words about me...

Ken Rigby is an Adjunct Research Professor and an educational consultant  and has been based at the University of South Australia since 1969. He was educated in England where he obtained an honours degree in Economics (London University)

Over the last ten years he has become a leading authority on bullying and peer victimization with more than 100 refereed papers and other publications.

His most recent book is Children and bullying: How  parents and educators can reduce bullying in schools published by Wiley 2008. (See www.kenrigby.net   and www.education.unisa.edu.au/bullying for further information).  Currently his chief professional interest is in evaluating different forms of interventions for  addressing cases of bullying in schools. He recently devised a training DVD to assist teachers and counsellors in implementing a highly effective intervention method known as the Method of Shared Concern. See www.readymade.com.au/method