Dr. Stephen Minton
Assistant Professor
Education
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
I was born in England in 1971, and graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1995 (B.Sc. (Hons) in Psychology) and Trinity College Dublin (twice; with an M.Sc. in Counselling Psychology in 1997, and a Ph.D. (undertaken in the School of Education) in 2007). I am a Chartered Psychologist with and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a General Member of its Divisions of Educational & Child Psychology, and Teachers & Researchers in Psychology. I joined the staff of the School of Education at Trinity College Dublin in 2005 as a full-time lecturer in the psychology of education, after having held a postgraduate teaching studentship within the same school for three years previously.
Research Interest
Currently, I am interested in the following research areas: (i) the social psychology of aggression, including school bullying behaviour and violence, and cyber-bullying; (ii) the social psychology of processes of inclusion and exclusion in education and society, especially regarding so-called 'minorities' (e.g. indigenous peoples, LGBT people, and members of youth sub-cultures), and addressing prejudice in and through educational practice; and, (iii) most generally of all, psychological approaches in education, particularly school teaching and educational guidance counselling. I currently serve as the School of Education's Director of Research, and chair the School's Ethics Committee.
Publications
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Cyber-bullying: The Irish Experience in, editor(s)Columbus, A.M. , Advances in Psychology Research, Volume 71, Hauppauge, NY , Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2010, pp115-138
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Minton, S.J., Experiences of and perspectives on homophobic bullying amongst a sample of upper secondary school students in Ireland, 15th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Bergen, Norway, 23rd - 27th August, 2011
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Minton, S.J., Experiences of and perspectives on homophobic bullying amongst a sample of upper secondary school students in Ireland, 15th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Bergen, Norway, 23rd - 27th August, 2011
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Minton, S.J., Alterophobic bullying and pro-conformist aggression in a survey of upper secondary school students in Ireland., Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 4, (2), 2012, p86 - 95
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Minton, S.J., Homophobic bullying: evidence-based suggestions for intervention programmes, Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 6, (3), 2014, p164 - 173
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Mc Guckin, C., & Minton, S.J. , From theory to practice: Two ecosystemic approaches and their applications to understanding school bullying, Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 24, (1), 2014, p36 - 48
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Hansen, K.L.; Minton, S.J.; Friborg, O. & Sørlie, T., Discrimination amongst Arctic indigenous Sami and non-Sami populations in Norway: the SAMINOR 2 questionnaire study, Journal of Northern Studies, 10, (2), 2016, p45 - 84
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Lynch, J.J. & Minton, S.J., Peer abuse and its contexts in industrial schools in Ireland , Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 8, (2), 2016, p76 - 85
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Physical proximity, social distance and cyber-bullying research in, editor(s)C. Mc Guckin & L. Corcoran , Bullying and Cyber-Bullying: Prevalence, Psychological Impacts and Intervention Strategies, Hauppage, New York, Nova Science, 2016, pp105 - 118
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re-thinking well-being measures in bullying and cyber-bullying research in, editor(s)C. Mc Guckin & L. Corcoran , Bullying and Cyber-Bullying: Prevalence, Psychological Impacts and Intervention Strategies, Hauppage, New York, Nova Science, 2016, pp89 - 104
