Dr Paul Horton
Senior Associate Professor, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Sweden
Email: paul.horton@liu.se
Profile
Paul Horton’s main research interests are school bullying, schooling, power relations, gender, and sexuality. His current research focuses on the importance of the school-built environment to school bullying, and on the bullying experiences of young LGBTQI+ people in Swedish schools.
Research
Publications
Horton, P., Forsberg, C., & Thornberg, R. (2025). Inclusive education and the bullying involvement of boys with special educational needs at a Swedish elementary school. International Journal of Inclusive Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2025.2487471
Horton, P., Forsberg, C., & Thornberg, R. (2025). The caring adult role: ethical reflections from an ethnographic study of school bullying. Ethnography and Education, Vol. 20, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2024.2437013
Horton, P. (2024). What's school got to do with it? Critically addressing the school in school bullying. Psychologia Wychowawcza, 71(29), 23–34. https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0054.8400
Horton, P., Webb, A., Forsberg, C., & Thornberg, R. (2024). ‘He’s actually very kind’: bullying figurations and the call of capital. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 45 (6), 957-973. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2024.2381098