Dr Michelle F Wright is a postdoctoral research fellow at Masaryk University, Brno, the Czech Republic. Her research interests include the contextual factors, such as familial and cultural, which influence children's and adolescents' aggression and victimization as well as their pursuit, maintenance, and achievement of peer status. Dr. Wright is also interested in peer rejection and unpopularity, and how such ... Read morestatuses relate to insecurity with one's peer standing, aggression, and victimization. Ultimately, Dr. Wright is concerned with how the dynamics of the peer group impact children's and adolescents' academic achievement and school engagement. Dr. Wright has also published various articles in Youth & Society, Journal of Youth & Adolescence, European Journal of Communication, CyberPsychology, Social Networking, and Behavior, International Journal of Public Health, Societies, Social Psychology of Education, and others. She is in the last year of a three year, six wave, longitudinal project investigating cyberbullying among adolescents in the United States. In addition, she has served as coordinator of a six country study focused on understanding contextual differences in cyberbullying involvement. She is also in the process of transitioning to a new position in which she will focus on the usage of technology for intervention efforts, particularly those that will encourage victims of traditional bullying and cyberbullying to seek social support from adults. Show Less