Karyn Healy

Karyn is an experienced practitioner who has specialised in addressing school bullying and conflict. She was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award to undertake a PhD from 2008. She co-authored a successful ARC Grant application with Professor Matt Sanders for trial of the Resilience Triple P program as part of her PhD. Since completing her PhD in 2014 she has published regularly in peer reviewed journals. Her paper published in Behavior Therapy in July 2014, documented the first controlled trial of a family program for children bullied at school and was cited in a U.S.A policy document “Preventing Bullying Through Science, Policy, and Practice” in 2016 (Altmetric, February 2018). Karyn has written five articles for The Conversation since 2015, which have attracted more than 413 000 readers. Her article “Is your child less likely to be bullied at a private school?” was selected for the prestigious Conversation Yearbook for 2015. Karyn presents regularly at conferences on the topic of school bullying and was a featured presenter at National Coalition Against Bullying Conference in Melbourne 2016. She was invited to be a critical friend to Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority for the development of syllabus for Psychology as a Senior School Subject and undertook this honorary role in 2016-2017. Karyn was a member of the Queensland Anti Cyber Bullying Committee 2019-2021.