Associate Professor Ey is a researcher at Education Futures and the Australian Centre for Child Protection at the University of South Australia. Dr Ey’s research is child-centric and aims to support the wellbeing of children. Her research on bullying explores and seeks to promote an understanding of bullying amongst children, parents and teachers to enable supportive and educative responses to children who engage in or are the object of bullying behaviour. She encourages prevention education and early intervention from early childhood and has worked with early childhood teachers to co-create bullying-prevention education.