Abstract
Bullying and cyberbullying among students in higher education take many forms and comprise a range of behaviours, including spreading nasty rumours on the grounds of race, disability, gender, religion and sexual orientation; ridiculing or demeaning a person; seeking revenge or deliberately embarrassing a person by posting intimate photos or videos about them without their consent online; accessing a person's social networking site with malicious intent and socially excluding a person. The behaviour that has caused the most policy concern is the increasingly sexualised nature of the violence. Furthermore, when that behaviour becomes criminal, it raises questions of responsibility and who should be 'policing'. Examples include online abuse and image-based abuse, which are occurring on university campuses with increasing frequency. This chapter discusses these incidences of violence at UK universities and considers what needs to be done to address the problem. Reporting findings from the Violence at University Project, a quantitative study that looks at the feasibility of measuring violence in all its forms in higher education, it is argued that students who are in higher education do not arrive at the system and suddenly engage in these behaviours. Advocating that such behaviours are a continuation throughout the education system, this research addresses the links with increasing sexual violence and dating violence in schools. Further research possibilities are discussed as well as the need to study cyberbullying, in all its forms, across the lifespan of education to foster positive relationships among university students.