WREXHAM BULLIES?
Have you been bullied at any time by Wrexham Borough Council? Freedom to Care (which supports conscientious employees who have been bullied for speaking up) is interested in hearing from Wrexham Borough Council employees, past and present, in any job, who have a story to tell. Contact in confidence: freedomtocare@aol.com or Chris on 01978 750583 and see www.freedomtocare.org

Bullying social services and child protection
I'm a freelance filmmaker currently developing a documentary about bullying in social services. I am very keen to speak to people who could tell me about where bullying is currently ongoing in child protection. Please contact Carl Callam tel 07941 344 991 or carlcallam@yahoo.com

Sex in the City
BBC Current Affairs team is investigating bad working practices in the City of London's financial firms. We'd like to hear from anyone who has experienced bullying or racial or sexual discrimination/harassment by colleagues or bosses at work. All calls will treated in strictest confidence. Please either leave a message on our 24 hour hotline ansaphone 0208 752 6316 or email us at insidethecity@bbc.co.uk with your story. We are looking to start filming end of August through to mid-September so if you are interested please do contact us as soon as possible!

Royal Mail tackles bullying and harassment
BBC Radio is looking into whether recent policies to tackle bullying and harassment at the Royal Mail are working, for a possible radio documentary. If you live in the UK and have had any experience of these issues there, then we would like to hear from you. Please contact researcher POLLY HOPE via email polly.hope.01@bbc.co.uk. Nothing you tell us will go on the record without your consent and your anonymity can be preserved if this is your preference.

Lifeline, Birmingham, England
I'm Alex and I'm a researcher for Carlton TV on a programme called Lifeline, which is a 1m 30sec piece that transmits each day at 3.10pm. We cover the Midlands area of the UK including Oxford, Birmingham, Coventry, Nottingham, Derby etc. We would like to interview someone who has suffered bullying and is willing to talk about their experiences. They would have to live in our area and we would travel to their home. At the end of the programme we offer an address so people can write for more information. Please contact me if you'd like to part: Alex Seabright, Tel 0121 634 4372, email Alex.Seabright@carltontv.co.uk

Bullied by a psychopath?
An independent Canadian production company, The May Street Group, is producing a documentary about psychopaths for Canadian Television and Discovery Channel. The documentary will look at the phenomena of the psychopath and the damage that psychopaths cause - not only through criminal activities but also in the workplace. The documentary also looks at current research into tests to identify psychopaths and ways to limit the damage they inflict. We are looking for individuals situated in the Greater London area, UK, who have personal stories about interaction with psychopaths in the work place and who would be willing to give a videotaped interview. Real names need not be used and faces and voices can be disguised, if required, to totally protect the identity of the story-teller. If you are willing to participate please email a brief outline of your story to maystreet@maystreet.ca

Female on female bullying:
I'm Simone Coakham and I'm a researcher at Betty Television looking to speak to women who have experienced bullying in the work place from another Female colleague. Betty Television is making a factual Drama for BBC3 about female on female bullying. To help the script writer create a realistic script, we want to talk to women who have first hand experience of bullying at work. If you don't mind having a confidential chat and live anywhere in the UK, please call me, Simone on T:020 7290 0668 or email me at simone@bettytv.co.uk

Cosmopolitan magazine
I'm Charlotte Northedge and I'm a features writer at Cosmopolitan magazine, currently researching an article about women who are bullied, both in their workplace and their social lives. I am focusing on women who have experienced being ganged up on by groups of other women - whether it was subtle or more open. I'm particularly interested in speaking to women in the UK between the ages of 20 and 35 who have any experience of this. Please contact me in confidence. Charlotte Northedge, charlotte.northedge@natmags.co.uk

Children's Express Newcastle
I'm Phillip Clark, a 15 year old, working with a team at Children's Express Newcastle to produce a story on bullying and all the aspects involved with that. Children's Express is a programme of learning through journalism for young people aged 8-18. We have strong links with local newspapers and the majority of our work is published in the media. For more information on Children's Express, please check out the website on www.childrens-express.org. We are looking to interview a wide range of people; we are particularly interested in interviewing a young person who has experienced bullying and is willing to talk about it (you can remain anonymous if wished). We are also looking to interview a parent whose child has, or is, being bullied. Interviews will take place by telephone, if you would like to take part and are living in the UK please e-mail me at clarkie27@hotmail.com

Radio diary
I'm Heather Goddard and I'm a news researcher for BBC Radio Norfolk. I'm interested in finding a child who is being bullied at school with the aim of recording their thoughts and views in a radio diary format. I am specifically looking for a child from the Norfolk area. They can remain anonymous if need be. I feel very strongly about this having been bullied at school myself and am positive that such a diary will raise awareness of bullying amongst our listeners, many of whom who have children. Contact Heather Goddard, tel 01603 284797, email heather.goddard@bbc.co.uk

Teenage bullying
My name is Rhona Mercer and I am the writer for a new teen magazine from the BBC which will be launched later this year. I am currently working on a bullying feature and I'm keen to interview a selection of teenagers for this article. If you are or have been a bully, I'd love to interview you and get your point of view. If you are the victim of bullying it would be great to speak to you too. If you're interested in talking to me about your experiences, please contact me on rhona.mercer@bbc.co.uk

Confederation of UK Anti-Bullying in the Workplace Support Groups
The setting-up of a Confederation of UK Anti-Bullying in the Workplace Support Groups will be considered at a seminar to be held in Birmingham, England, on Saturday 18th October 2003. Further information can be obtained from Keith Munday, by email: keith@dignityatworknow.org.uk by mobile: 07748 540332, or by writing to: DAWN, PO Box 11435, Birmingham, B32 2WD. See also the item below headed Establishing Anti-Bullying in the Workplace Support Groups.

Powys, mid-Wales
We're building up a party of interested people to start a new support group covering Builth Wells, Brecon, Llandrindod Wells - all in Powys, mid-Wales. Contact Vicky via email at bullied_at_work@hotmail.com

The London Support Group
The LSG is a group for people who have suffered from workplace bullying and meet at various locations in and around London on a monthly basis. We are a friendly group of like-minded people who meet in a safe environment and discuss the many aspects of bullying including workplace, legal, health and recovery issues. We also see socialising as an integral part of the support/recovery process. Membership of the support group is open to targets of bullying only and we also offer a secure internet forum for keeping in touch between meetings. For further information, please visit the LSG forum home page http://groups.yahoo.com/group/londonsupportgroup/ where there are directions on how to apply for membership.

Evelyn Field's bullying web site
http://www.bullying.com.au/

Workplace mobbing in academe
...by Kenneth Westhues, Professor of Sociology, University of Waterloo, Canada: http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~kwesthue/mobbing.htm

Beyond bullying in New Zealand
http://www.beyondbullying.co.nz/

Legal resources in the UK
http://www.legaljunction.co.uk/employment.htm

This guy's mission is the antithesis of bullying
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3120945.stm

Raising the emotional intelligence of young people
http://www.thethinkingclassroom.co.uk/discoveryproject.htm

Why workers need to have feelings
Emotional intelligence a prerequisite for high performance: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3020953.stm

Who Can You Count On?
Looks, race, even weather may play a role in whether you’ll get a helping hand: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/US/2020_bystanderapathy030829.html

Clinical research study for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
http://www.ptsdstudy.com

The trauma of betrayal
http://mysite.freeserve.com/heleng/index.htm

Support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England
www.spectrum-lgbt.org and the Clare Project at http://members.lycos.co.uk/suzi_james/CP_article.html

Sex hormone controls fear
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3142075.stm

Words, not bullets, make the workplace hostile
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/20813/23598.html

Emotional intelligence
What targets have, but bullies don't: http://eqi.org/history.htm

Sexual harassment
An article from the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: http://www.ncptsd.org/publications/rq/rqpdf/V14N1.PDF

Essentials of litigating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder claims
by Mark I. Levy, MD, FAPA: http://www.lawandpsychiatry.com/html/ptsd.html

10 tips for managers to reduce organisational stress
http://www.personneltoday.com/pt_news/news_daily_det.asp?liArticleID=19997

The American Institute of Stress
Job stress examined: http://www.stress.org/job.htm

What divides America
A Newsweek article in which author Robert W Fuller argues that neither racism nor sexism but 'rankism' keeps all from being equal: http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpful033398922aug03,0,1952207.story?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines

Poor management and self-protective attitude compromised safety and led to Columbia shuttle disaster
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3183745.stm and http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2003_08_24_spewingforth_archive.html#106200188563522520

What's going on with mobbing, bullying and work harassment internationally
http://www.ideamarketers.com/library/article.cfm?articleid=19430&where

Bullywise training program in Victoria, Australia
http://www.edcentre.vic.edu.au and http://www.bullywise.com/

Modern management makes workplace more dangerous
http://au.news.yahoo.com/030824/21/ld3v.html and http://www.hazards.org/haz81/ilodecentwork.htm and http://unionsafe.labor.net.au/safety_reps/106203825530743.html

Prince Edward Island's verbal abuse web site
http://www.walkfortalk.org/

Violence at Work - latest news and cases
See http://www.violenceatwork.co.uk and click "What's New?" and then "Work Violence related News".

Preventing violence and harassment in the workplace
A report from the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions: http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF02109EN.pdf

The National Institute for the Prevention of Workplace Violence
http://www.workplaceviolence911.com/

Links to violence and abuse in the workplace
http://open-site.org/Society/Issues/Violence_and_Abuse/Workplace/

Narcissism in the Workplace online conference transcript http://healthyplace.com/Communities/personality_disorders/site/Transcripts/narcissism_workplace.htm

The Experiences of Child Complainants of Sexual Abuse in the Criminal Justice System
by Dr Christine Eastwood and Prof Wendy Patton at Queensland University of Technology: http://www.aic.gov.au/crc/reports/eastwood.html

Tim Field shares his insight
Next venue: Leeds, England, September 25 and 26.
Understanding and tackling bullying at work: successunlimited/seminars/s1b.htm
Recovery and re-empowerment after bullying and abusive life events: successunlimited/seminars/s1b.htm

Establishing Anti-Bullying in the Workplace Support Groups
Establishing Anti-Bullying in the Workplace Support Groups is a seminar being organised by DAWN in Birmingham, England, on Saturday 18th October 2003, 10.15am to 4pm. Approximate cost £10. Updated details available at www.dignityatworknow.org.uk from 8th September. The event aims to enable those who have set up support groups to share their experience with those who are in the planning stages of their own support group in their own area. The event has the endorsement of the Andrea Adams Trust and The Field Foundation. At the end of the seminar there will be discussion of a proposal to establish a Confederation of UK Anti-Bullying in the Workplace Support Groups. For further information and to register your interest, email DAWN chairperson Keith Munday at keith@dignityatworknow.org.uk, or ring mobile 07748540332, or write to DAWN, PO Box 11435, Birmingham, B32 2WD.

Bullying conference in Australia
http://lockehayes.com.au/news/

Moving Beyond Bullies and Victims
A bilingual conference on bullying across the lifespan; October 1-4th, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: http://extend.unb.ca/conference/bullying/

National Coalition Against Bullying (NCAB) conference on school bullying
The best years of our lives ... or are they? Melbourne, Australia, November 2003: http://www.buddybear.com.au/buddy_frm.cfm?p=news

Employer Liability for Workplace Trauma
by Des Butler, Queensland University of Technology associate professor of law, Ashgate Gower, UK

Workplace Bullying - a costly business secret
New Zealand's first book on workplace bullying, By Andrea Needham, available 16 September 2003: http://www.beyondbullying.co.nz/stories.htm

The Evolution of Modern Management in Britain 1852 to 1979
by Dr Edward Brech who nine years ago at the youthful age of 85 achieved Britain's first doctorate in management history. "I'd like to see it as a module on a university syllabus." commented a sprightly 94-year-old Dr Brech: http://www.thoemmes.com/economics/brech_feat.htm

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I'm making no comment on this one
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3125181.stm

UK workers bullied by heatwave
Whingeing Poms stereotype likely to be strengthened: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3126087.stm whilst one Swede comes up with an innovative solution: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3129401.stm - just imagine if this caught on? Conservative party cabinet ministers in high heels? Or is that nothing new?

Far be it from me to sink to the depths of cheap political cartoonery
On second thoughts, what the hell? Judge for yourself: http://www.geocities.com/gwborchimp/

Or sink to the depravity of casting aspersions on our fine academic tradition
But I nearly wet myself with this delightful tribute: http://www.cynicalbastards.com/ubs/index.html

Tim Field's contribution to Colemanballs in Private Eye
Heard on the 5:30pm news briefing on Oxfordshire's Fox FM on Monday 11 August 2003: "Pop Idol judges say they think they know who the next winner of Pop Idol will be but they're not sure if it's a boy or a girl."

Bully in sight highlights the typical and transparent types of behaviour a bully inflicts on its victim. However the victim is not empowered with the knowledge  to recognise this at the time. Yet Bully in sight articulates the victims gut feeling that something is not right ... I wish I'd read Bully in sight when I experienced bullying by a group of women over an 18 month period many years ago - things would definitely have turned out different ... Anyone who is being bullied or knows someone who is going through this - must be given this book. Reading your book is like being inoculated against a deadly disease. Bully in sight will teach them to articulate that 'gut feeling', snap out of their denial and give them the skills to fight back. (JG)

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Bully in sight: how to predict, resist, challenge and combat workplace bullying
Tim Field, Success Unlimited, 1996, ISBN 0-9529121-0-4
Foreword by Diana Lamplugh OBE
An insider's view which validates the experience of bullying
Over 8500 copies sold.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: the invisible injury, 2001 edition
David Kinchin
Success Unlimited, 2001
ISBN 0-9529121-3-9
An insider's view from a former sufferer.
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Bullycide: death at playtime, an exposé of child suicide cause by bullying
Neil Marr and Tim Field
Success Unlimited, 2001
ISBN 0-9529121-2-0
Introduction by Jo Brand
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