Professor Marilyn Campbell

PhD (University of Queensland), MEd (University of Queensland), Postgrad Dip in Psychology (University of Queensland)

Marilyn is a professor in the school of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education in the Faculty of Education. Her main teaching area is in the Masters of School Guidance and Counselling and in the Masters of Educational and Developmental Psychology. Prior to this appointment Marilyn worked as a teacher for 20 years in early childhood, primary and secondary schools. Subsequently she became a registered psychologist and worked as a school counsellor, mainly with young children in early childhood and primary school settings, assessing children and providing counselling and intervention strategies to both parents and teachers. She then supervised both school counsellors and psychologists working in educational settings. Marilyn Campbell’s research expertise is in anxiety disorders in children and adolescents and in bullying, especially cyberbullying. She also researches in mental health issues for young people involving web based counselling and promoting resilience in intellectually disabled children and adults. Marilyn has also published papers on international pre-service teachers. She is a registered psychologist and teacher. Marilyn has expertise in quantitative design methodology. She has authored over 100 publications, is the recipient of a number of professional awards, as well as over a million dollars in grants. Dr Campbell was team leader on a consultancy project with adults with an intellectual disability and challenging behaviours, was chief investigator on two ARC linkage grants, one on cyberbullying and the other on online school counselling and an investigator on an ARC Discovery grant on resilience in intellectually impaired children. She is currently a chief investigator on an NHMRC grant investigating the prevention of bullying using motivational interviewing. She is also an Australian Research Council assessor and NHMRC assessor, as well as assessing for AHRC in the United Kingdom; the Israel Science Foundation Social Sciences and Humanities; the Research Council of Canada; the Romanian Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding; the Insight Grant applications of Canada and the National Research Foundation of UAE. Her publications have the third highest downloads on e-prints for the whole university, and she was chosen for the only case study example of open access for QUT for the Queensland government in 2016. Her research into cyberbullying has been one of the first internationally and in Australia. She has advised the Australian Federal government and state governments and UNESCO on bullying and has been a member of the National Centre Against Bullying’s Advisory Council for the last 7 years. She was on the Management Board of the COST European Action on cyberbullying, 2009-2012, is an Adjunct Professor at Edith Cowan university and the University of Bucharest. She has been a member of the reference group for Kids Matter and Mind Matters for 15 years. Marilyn has been President of the Queensland Guidance and Counselling Association and is now a life member. Her editorial roles include Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools for the past 10 years, member of the editorial boards of International Journal of Instruction; International Society of Applied Psychology (ISAPSY); School Psychology International; Education and Science Journal; The Counsellor; International Journal of Stress Management ; Journal of Psychology; Journal of School Violence; Turkish Journal of Addiction. She also is called upon to review extensively by high ranking journals. She has been the recipient of many awards in QUT, including Education Faculty Research Excellence Award, Education Faculty award for scholarship of teaching, Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Award for research and the Vice Chancellor’s Performance Award. She has been invited numerous times to speak as keynote at international conferences as well as at national conferences and seminars. Marilyn has extensive media coverage both nationally and internationally on TV, radio, press and magazines. Her latest media is with Ian Thorpe on the ABC TV series Bullied. She is the author of the Worrybusters series of books for anxious children.

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