Methodologies will be developed from a study already carried out in England. In general, this objective will be achieved by sharing of knowledge and expertise across teams, with a very major training component for young researchers. This objective will be forwarded by suitable questionnaires and semi-structured interview procedures, developed under objective 2. We will primarily rely on retrospective data from adults, on school experiences and workplace experiences of bullying and exclusion. Finally, all these objectives will yield information and advice for schools, and to some extent for workplace institutions, which may be thought of as vitally important for a happy and productive workforce operating on democratic principles, based on an education for citizenship respecting fully the rights of individuals.
All teams have telephone, fax and email facilities.
We will organise and communicate primarily via email networking facilities. An internet home page is also installed, to contact other researchers and interested parties. In each case, there are close ties between country teams due to shared activities, supervision, and prior publications. Communication and exchange of skills will thus be facilitated by the cascade model of the Network. As this is primarily a school-based project, industry involvement is envisaged to be limited at this stage to collating information on workplace bullying and harassment, how social exclusion and bullying is viewed by management and personnel, and what interventions or policies are currently used and their perceived effectiveness.