Every young person deserves a safe digital life. NGAIRC partners with schools and colleges to deliver free awareness seminars that equip students with the knowledge, language, and confidence to recognise, resist, and report cyberbullying.
Cyberbullying is the deliberate and repeated use of digital technologies — including social media platforms, messaging applications, online games, and email — to harm, harass, threaten, humiliate, or exclude another person.
Unlike traditional bullying, cyberbullying can occur at any time of day or night, reach a wide audience almost instantly, and leave a permanent digital record that is difficult to erase. The perpetrator and victim often know each other — and the harm follows the victim home through their own device.
"Cyberbullying is not limited to overt insults. It includes sharing private images without consent, impersonating someone online, excluding a person from digital groups, and spreading false rumours — often on platforms young people use every single day."
— NGAIRC Cyberbullying Awareness Programme
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Repeatedly sending offensive, hurtful, or threatening messages to an individual. This is the most recognised form of cyberbullying and can occur across all platforms — from direct messages and comments to group chats.
Creating fake accounts, profiles, or identities to pose as someone else online — either to damage their reputation, manipulate their relationships, or post content they would never approve of.
Deliberately leaving someone out of online groups, chats, or gaming lobbies with the intent to isolate and hurt them socially. This form of cyberbullying is often minimised but causes significant emotional harm.
Sharing someone's private, personal, or sensitive information publicly without their consent — including home addresses, phone numbers, photos, or personal details — often to expose, shame, or put them at risk.
Using artificial intelligence tools to generate realistic fake images, videos, or audio of a person — often of a sexual or humiliating nature — and distributing this content online. This is an emerging and serious form of digital abuse.
Threatening to release private images, videos, or personal information unless the victim complies with demands — which may include money, further images, or sexual favours. This is a form of blackmail and a serious criminal offence.
Deliberately posting inflammatory, provocative, or hurtful content to upset, anger, or destabilise a target. Trolling is often dismissed as harmless humour, but sustained targeted trolling constitutes harassment and causes real psychological harm.
The consequences of cyberbullying extend well beyond the digital environment. Research consistently shows that victims suffer significant psychological, academic, and social harm.
Awareness at the school level is the most effective and scalable intervention available. A single well-delivered session can shift awareness, change behaviour, and give students the language and confidence to seek help.
The framework that underpins every NGAIRC cyberbullying seminar
Students learn to name and recognise all forms of cyberbullying — including emerging threats like deepfakes, sextortion, and AI-generated content — before they become vulnerable to them.
Participants gain practical knowledge of digital rights, platform reporting tools, privacy settings, password hygiene, and two-factor authentication — turning awareness into capability.
Students learn concrete self-protection strategies: how to document evidence, when and how to report, how to block and restrict, and how to protect their accounts from being compromised.
We equip students to support peers experiencing cyberbullying, model bystander intervention, and know when and how to seek adult help — building a culture of community responsibility.
Each session runs for 60 to 90 minutes and is delivered free of charge. Content is adapted for the age group attending. Teachers, coordinators, and parents are also welcome.
What Your Institution Gets
Five questions to test what you know about cyberbullying and online safety
By hosting one of our seminars, your institution sends a clear message to students, parents, and the wider community: that the safety and well-being of young people matter, online as well as offline.
The session is free of charge to your students, requires minimal preparation from your staff, and provides every participant with a certificate of attendance.
No cost — the seminar is entirely free for your institution and students
Minimal logistics — NGAIRC handles all materials, certificates, and delivery
Age-adapted — content is tailored to your student group (Years 8–12 or college)
Community impact — demonstrate leadership on student digital safety
