Spanish Team

Project members of the VISIONARIES-NET project (2004-2006)

Rosario Ortega Ruiz

Professor Rosario Ortega is Head of Department of Education in the University of Cordoba (Spain). She is the team leader of a research group focused on bullying, school violence, social exclusion and juvenile criminality. In these subjects, she has carried out different studies directed to arise the social awareness on this problems, as well as to develop useful measures to prevent them.

During the more than 15 years she is working in this field, she has been director of two national projects (SAVE and ANDAVE) where she created a new model of intervention to prevent school bullying based on the concept of “convivencia”. She was team leader on several European Projects, including the EU-funded TMR project “Bullying and social exclusion in schools and the workplace”, and the Connect-UK project “Violence in schools”. She has given many keynote addresses on her work at international conferences and has published widely in the field of school violence. Recently, she has also been selected like expert advisor by Interamerican Bank of Development to assess and prevent violence in Center-American schools. Prof. Ortega is member of European Observatory of Violence in Schools too.

E-Mail: ed1orrur@uco.es

Joaquín Mora-Merchán

Dr. Joaquín Mora-Merchán, psychologist, is member of the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology in the University of Seville, where he teachs. Since his early works, he has been interested in the study of Bullying and School Violence. During this time, he has participated in nacional (SAVE project, coordinated by Prof. Ortega) and internacional projects (TMR project: “Nature and pervention of Bullying”, coordinated by Prof. Smith) focused on this field. As result of this work, he has published different contributions in journals and books.

E-mail: merchan@us.es

Personal web site: barbacana.net/moramerchan/