Research output per year
Research output per year
Dr
The University of Western Australia (M560), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
Dr Runions (PhD, Human Development & Education, UToronto) studies children’s social and emotional wellbeing, the things that happen in children’s social lives that impact on wellbeing like bullying and how schools can work better to improve children’s lives, for example by prevention efforts focusing on social-emotional learning. He has been project director on two large school trials of the Friendly School program, and is internationally recognised for his work on motives for bullying and moral processing in aggression.
He has led research examining how the online medium affects cyberbullying, on the school social experiences of children with chronic health conditions, and developing methods to improve school staff mental health literacy. He has published over 50 peer reviewed articles including a seminal meta-analysis of bullying and cyberbullying prevalence. He is also a research coordinator with WA Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services and has led work on biopsychosocial processes, borderline personality disorder and deliberate self-harm.
His research with Telethon Kids Institute and with the Australian Life Course Centre aims to understand how schools and families can work together to better help students from disadvantaged backgrounds and neurodiverse children and adolescents to improve outcomes overall and to reduce inequities in developmental and occupational life outcomes
Human Development and Education, PhD, University of Toronto
Award Date: 21 Jun 2004
Human Development and Education, M.A., University of Toronto
Award Date: 1 Jan 2000
Primary/Junior Education, B.Ed., Queen's University Kingston
Award Date: 6 Jun 1996
Psychology, B.Sc (Hon), Trent University
Award Date: 6 Jun 1993
Senior Research Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute
21 May 2021 → 20 May 2024
Research Coordinator, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service - WA Health
May 2017 → …
Senior Research Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute
May 2014 → Dec 2017
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies, University of Victoria BC
Jul 2011 → Mar 2014
Lecturer, School of Psychology & Speech Pathology, Curtin University
2008 → 2011
Lecturer, School of Psychology, Edith Cowan University
Jul 2004 → Dec 2007
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Cross, D., Runions, K., Knight, S. & Byrne, M.
WA Health Promotion Foundation Healthway
1/07/18 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
Zepf, F., Rao, P., Wong, J., Runions, K., Mahfouda, S. & Morandini, H.
Government of Western Australia, Department of Health
1/01/18 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Cross, D., Atlas, M., Shaw, T., Eikelboom, R., Kickett-Tucker, C., Runions, K., Li, I. & Coffin, J.
WA Health Promotion Foundation Healthway
1/01/16 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
Houghton, S., Whitehouse, A., Wray, J., Chalmers, R., Cross, D., Runions, K., MacLeod, C. & Grafton, B.
WA Health Promotion Foundation Healthway
1/07/15 → 30/06/17
Project: Research