After a week of reading dissertations, a well earned stretch!
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans
@dr-liz-evans.bsky.social
Assoc prof psychology at Durham University. She/her Body image, eating disorders, weight & interventions in children & adults. Autistic-led research into Autism and eating. Views my own. Parent of 4, GP's spouse. Always tired! 1st gen.
This time, sharing some of my spouse’s work :) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...
‘Fix poverty, fix health’: A day in the life of a ‘failing’ NHS
A GP surgery in one of the most deprived areas in the north-east of England is struggling to provide care for its patients as the health system crumbles around them. In the depths of the winter flu se...
theguardian.com
So thrilled to launch this international online conference on body image and appearance pressures/ideals, Sept 16-18th 2025. Open to all scholars, incredibly low cost, and with two phenomenal keynote speakers ... please SHARE! To find out more: lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.uk/perspectives...
Perspectives in Body Image: An international online conference - ACE lab
Dates: 16th-18th Sept 2025 Abstract deadline: 15th April 2025 PBI is a conference that brings together researchers from diverse disciplines and regions working on body image (broadly defined) and soci...
lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.uk
Lynda Boothroyd@drboothroyd.bsky.social · 2y agoWe're excited to announce a new *online* conference on body image and appearance pressures/ideals! Low cost, easy access, dual-language abstracts. Share far and wide and come and join us in September! Conference website: lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.uk/perspectives... #PsychSkiSky #Anthropology
LOVE this paper, featuring parents' neuro-affirming narratives about echolalia. My son's echolalia brings him JOY. Key message: 'Therapeutic' attempts to extinguish echolalia are cultural homogenisation. They deny the individual's autonomous identity. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
‘Let me tell you, I see echolalia as being a part of my son’s identity’: Exploring echolalia as an expression of neurodiversity from a parental perspective
Echolalia has been described as the repetition of words, phrases, songs or other more elaborate dialogues uttered by another person, which may be immediate or delayed (International Classification of ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
(1/2) New paper + thread Lots of research critiques parents' so-called inability to visually categorise their child's weight as higher/lower than the mid range. BUT ... HCPs (& people without kids) can't do this either! doi.org/10.1111/bjhp... It's a PERCEPTUAL phenomenon, so why blame parents?
<em>British Journal of Health Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Objectives Parents infrequently recognize childhood overweight/obesity and healthcare professionals (HCPs) also struggle to visually identify it, potentially limiting the offer and uptake of weight ...
doi.org
Our recent paper (led by Phaedra Longhurst) argues that eating disorder measures lack validity for Autistic folks: leads to pathologising Autistic people's eating & missing EDs that don't present neurotypically. Validated, Autistic-led measures urgently needed! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Measuring eating disorders in Autistic people: a proposal for future research
While diagnostic pathways for identifying Autism in eating disorder (ED) populations have been developed, the field continues to lack validated psychometric tools to measure EDs for use in the Auti...
tandfonline.com
Durham Cathedral illuminated for Remembrance Day - beautiful!
Delighted to join BSky after feeling really uncomfortable with Twitter for a while - glad to finally make the leap!