“…Indeed, there is evidence to indicate that over 40% of first-year university students experienced conflict with their house/roommates at least once a week, and, in a sample of 31,500 undergraduate students, 50.1% reported experiencing house/roommate conflict frequently (Liu et al, 2008) where these conflict situations often escalated over time to become more serious bullying incidences (Hoel et al, 1999; Keashly & Nowell, 2002; Law, Shapka, Hymel et al, 2012; Zapf & Gross, 2001). Moreover, a recent systematic review by MacMillan et al (2022) reported that bullying appears pervasive among undergraduate learners and may vary by department (i.e., medical-based programs) and population (i.e., racial, and ethnic minoritized groups), with between 30% and 90% of EAs being subject to bullying while pursuing post-secondary education. Notably, there is also evidence to suggest that this trend persists across (Lund & Ross, 2017; Tight, 2023) and beyond university with approximately 98% of EAs pursuing higher education self-reporting that they had indulged in peer-bullying and 88% reporting experiencing peer-victimization during the span of their postsecondary tenure (Kapoor, 2016).…”