We would like to thank the TrygFonden (TrygFoundation) in Denmark for supporting the basic research on school bullying carried out by the project ‘Exploring Bullying in Schools’ (eXbus) at the Department of Education (DPU), Aarhus University, Denmark. Several of the contributors to this volume participated in eXbus during the period 2007–12.

We would also like to thank Hans Reitzel Publishers for permission to publish articles that originally appeared in Danish in Mobning: Sociale Processer på Afveje (2009) and Mobning Gentænkt (2012).

We thank Taylor & Francis (www.tandfonline.com) for permission to reprint here in expanded form Søndergaard, D. M. (Reference Højgaard, Juelskjær and Søndergaard2012). ‘Bullying and Social Exclusion Anxiety in Schools’ in the British Journal of Sociology of Education 33(3): 355–72; and for permission to reprint Ellwood, C. and B. Davies (Reference Ellwood and Davies2010). ‘Violence and the Moral Order in Contemporary Schooling: A Discursive Analysis’ in Qualitative Research in Psychology 7(2): 85–98.

We thank our colleagues – both near and far – for ongoing discussions, commentaries and engagement with this research.

And finally, we thank Amy Clotworthy for her superb professionalism and efficiency. Her editorial work in the final preparation of this manuscript has been, quite literally, invaluable.