School shootings challenge educational safety, demanding effective leadership strategies. The Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which claimed the lives of 19 children and 2 teachers, heightened concerns about campus vulnerabilities, urging administrators to prioritize student protection. I performed a qualitative study interviewing…

Using virtual reality (VR), six journalism students were given training on how to cover a protest that turns violent. The goal was to investigate if VR could help increase awareness of and resilience to the physical and psychological dangers of journalistic work. Pre- and post-interviews were analyzed for themes associated with learning and…

Evidence suggests that co-developed participatory interventions to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) may support behavior change. Yet, adolescents are often excluded from intervention development. Moreover, there remains a gap in understanding if intervention co-development can occur online. Our study explored the feasibility of…

The use of content warnings in English literature education, particularly for canonical texts such as the plays of Shakespeare, has sparked debate, yet little is known about how secondary-school-aged students themselves feel about them. This study addresses this gap by surveying 310 students from four English schools and sixth-form colleges and…

Sexual misconduct victimization including sexual assault, sexual harassment, dating/domestic violence, and stalking is widespread among U.S. college students. While survivors often experience negative mental health impacts such as depression and anxiety, positive disclosure experiences and supportive services can reduce these effects. One way to…

Feminist research and mass demonstrations on campuses have proven that Higher Education Institutions are not violence-free spaces. In Catalonia, the legal obligations and institutional discomfort generated by some specific cases have forced Higher Education Institutions to take measures. How much support do these measures provide for survivors?…

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) refers to aggressive behavior that occurs within current and former intimate relationships and leads to physical, sexual, and/or psychological harm (Robertson et. al., 2024). Harmful behaviors may be physical aggression, sexual coercion, psychological abuse and controlling actions (World Health Organization (WHO),…

The value of college education for US police officers has been contemplated since at least the 1920's, yet the importance of critical thinking has only recently attracted scholarly attention. Modern police training is frequently led by experienced former practitioners; however, as "insiders" they may be less likely to critically evaluate…

From the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor to the attack on Asian Americans in Georgia to the police shooting of Daunte Wright, the instances of traumatic events recently are too long to list, but the almost daily trauma is impacting our classrooms through the lived experiences of those who are a part of this living, dynamic system. Within…

To assess the knowledge, attitude, practice, and determinants of intimate partner violence (IPV) among nursing female student in a tertiary hospital in Abakaliki. A cross-sectional descriptive study was done in a tertiary hospital in Abakaliki between 1st March 2018 and 31st August 2018 among 450 nursing female student. They were interviewed using…

Firearm-related violence is the leading cause of death for adolescents and can have lifelong ramifications, including to one's mental health and well-being. Through a scoping review of existing literature published since 1980, the current study describes nuanced pathways through which exposure to firearm violence (direct or indirect) can…

Teacher attrition, or teachers voluntarily leaving the field, has been a persistent problem in United States public schools and serves as one of the primary drivers of the urgent teacher shortage crisis. Mitigating teacher attrition requires a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of why teachers leave the field. This dissertation employs three…

Girls' education is affected by forms of violence and teenage pregnancy, resulting in school dropouts. Governments have established Behavior Change Communication (BCC) approaches to address these issues, but with limited success. This study assessed teenage girls' perceived views on the best BCC strategies for eradicating these education issues.…

Background: College is a critical life stage for alcohol-related harms to others (AHTOs), gender, and sexual identity. We tested associations between inclusively-defined gender and sexual identities (separately) and AHTOs among college students. Methods: The Healthy Minds Study (n = 8,308) provided data about three AHTOs: (1) babysitting a drunk…

Behavioral threat assessment is a widely used violence prevention strategy in schools, but there is little research on how frequently a student attempts to carry out a threat of violence after a threat assessment and whether schools accurately recognize and classify these cases. This study investigated: 1) how often students attempted violence and…