Shelley Hymel
Canadian psychologist and academic
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Biography
Hymel earned her Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Illinois in 1982. She was a faculty member at the University of Waterloo before joining the Department of Education at UBC in 1993.
Hymel is the co-founder, along with Susan Swearer, of the Bullying Research Network, a group that links more 200 researchers from more than 17 countries in the field of bullying and peer victimization.
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Awards
- 2015: UBC Killam Research Prize
- 2015: University of Illinois Education Alumni Association (EAA) Distinguished Alumni Award
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