My research has primarily been in the areas of social and educational psychology, with a specific focus on friendships in schools. My research has three key strands. The first strand concerns how peer group memberships and school ethos affect children’s responses to bullying. This research speaks to the role of bystanders at bullying incidents, including cyberbullying incidents. A second strand of research concerns how children deploy humour in friendship groups, either to maintain or resist bullying. A third strand of research focuses on children who experience prejudice and concerns how children’s imagined play, using Playmobil TM figures affects their responses to those who are discriminated against.
2015 – Present – Teaching Fellow, Goldsmiths, UoL
2013-2015 – Early Career Fellow, Oxford Brookes University
2011-2012 – Research Associate, Keele University
2006-2011 – MSc and PhD, Cardiff University
EDUCATION
2013-2014 Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (Distinction)
2007-2011. PhD in Psychology at Cardiff University, UK, supervised by Professor Antony Manstead and Dr. Andrew Livingstone, and entitled ‘Group processes and children’s responses to bullying’. My research, concerned how school bullying may be explained at a group level, and in its social context.
2006-2007. MSc in Social Science Research Methods, Cardiff University, UK (distinction)
2003-2006.BSc in Psychology, University of Exeter, UK (First class).
AWARDS
2016-2017. British Academy Small Grant The Many Colours of Home: Effects of Imagined Contact on Children’s Acceptance of Immigrants. £9 275
2014. BPS Developmental Section Early Career Researchers International Collaborations Scheme (£450)
2013 FHLS Public Engagement Project Funding To fund the Friendship Workshops. (£83)
2011. EPS Grindley Grant to attend EASP General Meeting in Stockholm (£500).
2010. Student Bursary to attend the BPS Social Section Conference (£230).
2006. ESRC 1 + 3 studentship
2006. Undergraduate Final Year Project Prize, University of Exeter, UK
PUBLICATIONS
Fox, C., Hunter, S.C., & Jones, S.E. (in press, Aug 2016). Reciprocity between humor styles and psychosocial adjustment in children. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, Special Humor Issue.
Fox, C., Hunter, S.C., & Jones, S.E. (2016). Children’s humor types and psychosocial adjustment. Personality and Individual Differences, 89, 86-91.OPEN ACCESS HERE: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886915006200
Hunter, S.C., Fox, C., & Jones, S.E. (2016). Humor style similarity and difference in friendship dyads. Journal of Adolescence, 46, 30-37. OPEN ACCESS HERE –http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140197115002481
Fox, C., Hunter, S.C., & Jones, S.E. (2015). The relationship between peer victimization and children’s humor styles: It’s no laughing matter! Social Development, 24(3), 443-461. JOURNAL LINK HERE: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sode.12099/full
Fox, C.L., Jones, S.E., Stiff, C., & Jones, S.E. (in press). Does the gender of the bully/victim dyad and the type of bullying influence children’s responses to a bullying incident? Aggressive Behaviour.
Jones, S.E., Manstead, A.S.R., & Livingstone, A.G. (2014). Bullying and belonging: Teachers’ reports of school aggression. [Open Access] Frontline Learning Research, 3, 64-77.
Jones, S.E., Fox, C.L., Gilman, H., James, L., Karic, T., Wright-Bevans, K., & Caines, V. (2013). “I’m being called names and I’m being hit”: Challenges of longitudinal research on bullying among 11-13 year-olds. Pastoral Care in Education, 31 (2), 321-336.
Jones, S.E., Manstead, A.S.R., & Livingstone, A.G. (2012). Fair-weather or foul-weather friends? Group identification and children’s responses to bullying. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 3, 414-420.
Jones, S.E., Bombieri, L., Manstead, A.S.R., & Livingstone, A.G. (2012). The role of norms and social identities in children’s responses to bullying. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 82, 241-256.
Jones, S.E. (2011). Rethinking school bullying: Towards an integrated model (Book Review). The Psychologist, 24 (11).837.
Jones, S.E., Manstead, A.S.R., & Livingstone, A.G. (2011). Ganging up or sticking together: Group processes and children’s responses to bullying. British Journal of Psychology, 102, 71-96.
Jones, S.E., Manstead, A.S.R., & Livingstone, A.G. (2009). Birds of a feather bully together: Group processes and children’s responses to bullying. BritishJournal of Developmental Psychology, 27, 853-873.
Jones, S.E., Haslam, S.A., York, L., & Ryan, M.K. (2008). Rotten apple or rotten barrel? Social identity and children’s responses to bullying. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 16, 117-132.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Jones, S.E., Fox, C., & Hunter S. (2013). Bullying and belonging: A longitudinal study of the protective role of defenders in children’s friendship groups. Talk presented to the BPS Developmental Section, Reading, UK (September).
Jones, S.E., Fox, C., & Hunter S. (2012). Laughing together: The role of humor styles in children’s friendships and bullying. Talk presented to the BPS Developmental Section, Glasgow, (September).
Jones, S.E., Fox, C., & Hunter S. (2012). Laughing together: The role of humor styles in children’s friendships. Talk presented to the International Humor Society Conference, Krakow (June).
Jones, S.E., Manstead, A.S.R., & Livingstone, A.G. (2011). Group based anger and children’s responses to bullying. Talk presented to the EASP General Meeting, Stockholm (July).
Jones, S.E., Manstead, A.S.R., & Livingstone, A.G. (2011). Group norms and children’s responses to bullying. Talk presented to the Jena Workshop on Intergroup Processes (July).
Jones, S.E., Manstead, A.S.R., & Livingstone, A.G. (2011). Group norms and children’s responses to bullying. Invited Talk at University of Kent, Canterbury (January).
Jones, S.E., Manstead, A.S.R., & Livingstone, A.G. (2011). Group processes and children’s responses to bullying. Invited Talk at University of Exeter (November).
Jones, S.E., Manstead, A.S.R., & Livingstone, A.G. (2010). Fair-weather or foul-weather friends? Social identity and children’s responses to bullying. Talk presented to the BPS Social Section Conference, Winchester (September)
Jones, S.E., Manstead, A.S.R., & Livingstone, A.G. (2009).Group Processes and Children’s Responses to Cyberbullying. Presented as part of the BPS Social Section Symposium, Sheffield, Social Identity on the Playground (September).
Jones, S.E., Livingstone, A.G. & Manstead, A.S.R. (2009). Group processes and children’s responses bullying. Poster presented to the Antisocial Behaviour in Schools Conference, University of Greenwich (September).
Jones, S.E., Livingstone, A.G. & Manstead, A.S.R. (2009). Group processes and children’s responses cyberbullying. Talk presented to the PsyPAG Annual; Conference, Cardiff University (July).
I am part of DipLab (see https://diplab.wordpress.com/)
My research is in the area of children’s social development. I am particularly interested in schoolchildren’s friendships and in school bullying: how does being part of a group (or not) influence these experiences?
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2015-Present. Teaching Fellow, Goldsmiths, UoL
PS51008C Design and Analysis of Psychological Investigations 2015-16
PS51009A Practical Issues in Psychological Research 2015-16
PS51010A Extended Essay in Psychology 2015-16
PS52002C Personality and Individual Differences 2015-16
PS52005C Design and Analysis of Psychological Studies 2015-16
PS52007B Research Methods in Psychology 2015-16
PS53012A Research Project 2015-16
PS53040A Social-Moral Development 2015-16
I live in Whitehead Building Room 302. I hold office hours in term-time from 3-4pm on Tuesdays, 9-10 am on Thursdays and 1-2pm on Fridays, where you can drop in. I am free at other times; email for a meeting.
2013-2015. Teaching Fellow, Oxford Brookes University, UK
2011-2012. Final Year Project Supervision. I co-supervised two final year project students, completing projects in social-developmental psychology.
2011-2012.Keele Research Apprenticeship Scheme. I worked with a number of second year undergraduate students, who were working on a project looking at gender and bullying.
2009- 2011 – Single Honours Graduate Teaching Assistant. I delivered seminars and marked essays for approximately 200 Level 1 Single Honours undergraduate students each year, in Psychological Research. I also delivered two team-taught lectures on essay-writing skills as part of the Psychological Research module.
2007-2008 – Final Year Project Co-Supervision. I co-supervised a final year research project looking at group-based emotions and bullying in different intergroup contexts.
2006-2009 – Joint Honours Graduate Teaching Assistant. I delivered seminars and marked essays for approximately 30 Level 1 Joint Honours undergraduate students each year, across Cognitive, Social, Biological and Abnormal Psychology.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ROLES AND ACTIVITIES
September 2013 – June, 2015. Convenor, Developmental Research Group Meetings, Oxford Brookes University, UK. I arrange seminars in the area of developmental psychology for speakers within the University.
September 2012 – Present BPS Developmental Section Ordinary Committee Member, Newsletter Editor.
January 2012-October 2012. Convenor, Young People in Society Research Group, Keele University, UK. I arranged seminars in the area of social and developmental psychology for speakers within the School of Psychology.
October 2010 – July 2011 Researcher in Residence. As a member of this scheme I delivered two hands-on seminars at two different boys’ high schools: one focused on group processes and bullying, the other on social psychology and aggression.
October 2007 – June 2009. Convenor, Social Psychology Research Group, Cardiff University, UK. I arranged seminars in the area of social psychology for speakers within the School of Psychology, and the School of Social Sciences, as well as liaising with speakers from other universities. I managed the research budget for this group.
August, 2008 – EASP Summer School, Local Organizer, Cardiff University, UK. I helped organize the EASP summer school, and participated in the Intergroup Relations workshop.
November 2008 – July, 2009 – Steering Committee Member, PsyPAG Conference 2009. I helped to organize the BPS PsyPAG conference for postgraduates, held at Cardiff University in July.
October 2008 – Present – Ad-hoc Reviewer, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, Social Development.
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
2004 – Present. British Psychological Society (BPS)
2008- Present. European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)
Through the Academic Looking Glass 
