📢NEW PUBLICATION: Exploring career concerns and opportunities for UK-based early career researchers working in the field of eating disorders: Delphi study www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @eatingresearch.bsky.social @edaceatingautism.bsky.social @edinburghmentalhealth.org

We are currently recruiting adults age 16 or over based in the UK with a clinical or self diagnosed eating disorder who have experience of using, or attempting to obtain, GLP-1 weight loss injections. Please do complete the survey here edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

And we are very glad you agreed to doing this thing! It is fab, thanks you so much for bringing all your loved experience and expertise! 👏👏👏

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee5q... - I did a thing

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Table Talk Episode 7 : Autistic Male Experiences of Eating Disorders

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Myself and @drhelensharpe.bsky.social have combined 2 0.4WTE postdocs to make 0.8 for 1 person or two 0.4 posts thanks to @medresfdn.bsky.social funding. Will be working across developing resources for food insecurity in EDs and adaptations to FT-AN for autistic young people at Edinburgh uni.

[2/2] A huge congratulations to: 🟩 @fionaduffy.bsky.social from The University of Edinburgh 🟩 @nicolabyrom.bsky.social from King's College London 🟩 @drhelensharpe.bsky.social from the University of Edinburgh 🟩 @dashanicholls.bsky.social from Imperial College London 👉 Read more: shorturl.at/GbQQk

Medical Research Foundation | Transforming eating disorder care…

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Meet the recipients of our new Eating Disorders Research Changing Policy and Practice Awards! ✨ These exceptional researchers are working to share their findings with healthcare professionals & policymakers, to improve support for those affected by life-threatening eating disorders. [1/2]

We are recruiting Autistic adults (formal diagnosis or self identified), over 16years and fluent in English, who have experienced CBT-E for anorexia, bulimia or binge eating disorder in the past 3 years for a survey and an optional follow up interviews. edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🔍 Researchers from the Eating Disorders and Autism Collaborative (#EDAC) have used an innovative 'photo voice' technique to empower Autistic people with eating disorders to shape the direction of future research. #MedSky 📄 read paper: lnkd.in/dAWSUVyT 🖼️ view virtual exhibition: lnkd.in/dnBHnAh5

📣 We’ve now opened our second phase of recruitment and are inviting cisgender adults with a current or past eating disorder to share their experiences too. Please follow the link to find out more: tinyurl.com/LEADINGStudy1

LEADING Study@leading-study.bsky.social · last yr.

We are still looking for UK-based gender diverse adults (18+) who have a current or historical experiences of an eating disorder/disordered eating to complete a survey about your experiences. Find out more here: tinyurl.com/LEADINGStudy1 Please share widely with anyone who might be interested!

Recruitment call for clinicians working in UK ED services (NHS or private practice) that are looking to implement the PEACE framework 📣 To find out more and to take part in the study, please see the poster below or click the following link: edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Very privileged to have received "highly commended" at Edinburgh Uni's Research Impact Prize event today for team culture! So great for our hardworking team and collaborators to be acknowledged .... not all of our team could make it along so this is for them!

Autistic women or Non-binary folks (18+) needed 📢 With support from @edaceatingautism.bsky.social, we would like to hear your valuable expertise to review an intervention that aims to prevent body image concerns and disordered eating. For more info, please email Hannah at h.k.lewis@qmul.ac.uk

We are looking for #autistic & #ADHD people in Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 to fill in a survey about experiences (in the last 10 years) of pregnancy, birth and the 1st year of being a parent. The survey is here👇 nait.scot/news-and-eve... @nctcharity.bsky.social @semascot.bsky.social @scottishautism.bsky.social

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NAIT Perinatal Survey launched March 2025 to ask about experiences of neurodivergent people in Scotland during pregnancy, birth and the post-natal period.

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We are recruiting Autistic adults (formal diagnosis or self identified), over 16years and fluent in English, who have experienced CBT-E for anorexia, bulimia or binge eating disorder in the past 3 years for a survey and an optional follow up interviews. edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Spent a great few days in Edinburgh this week with the @edaceatingautism.bsky.social team and others funded under the @ukri.org collaborations in eating disorders research call. Fab opportunity to chat all things peer research and hear updates from ECRs and teams working in the field.

Day two in Edinburgh; looking forward to hearing about the incredible research that is being done across the Eating Disorder Research Network. Any conference with @edaceatingautism.bsky.social branded fidget spinners gets my vote!

New research paper using photovoice to explore research priorities with autistic individuals with eating disorders onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Our @edaceatingautism.bsky.social postdoc @emynimbley.bsky.social has made this amazing clip of a recent ESRC Impact Acceleration event supporting lived experience, clinicians and researchers to come together to share understanding of autism and eating disorders, narrated by one of our collaborators

New publication which EDAC is proud to be part of supporting implementation of PEACE pathway in clinical services www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17...

New EDAC publication from our postdoc Michelle Sader, we will upload a plain speaking summary of this on our website shortly 👍 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New podcast dropping today on autistic trans and non binary peoples experience of eating disorders open.spotify.com/show/6tEaThW...

In-person ECR event for eating disorder researchers in UK on 8th May, focusing on funding applications and co-production. An optional second day networking event with 4 UKRI-funded ED research. ✍️Register interest here: qualtricsxm8tn52zk86.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Are you a health care professional working in #EatingDisorders? KateTchanturia and her team’s workshop ‘Link between Eating disorders and #Autism: PEACE pathway Conference’ will share specially developed resources to take back to your clinic. #MedSky #AcademicSky Register: bit.ly/3Sk2Xgl

We are delighted to present a selection of *Photovoice photographs, drawings and digital art produced by Autistic people with eating disorders on Inspace @designinf.bsky.social City Screens on Potterrow, each evening across this week. #Photovoice #research #collaboration #data #photography

You’re Not Alone photovoice exhibition with @edaceatingautism.bsky.social continues this week! Presenting the experiences and priorities of Autistic people with eating disorders through photographs, drawings and digital art. ⏰ 10am-5pm 📅 Until 8 Mar 2025 | Closed Tues/Thurs 🔗 edin.ac/42KbxdI

We @EDACautism_ED launched our exhibition on Friday and Saturday. We were over the moon that so many participants and collaborators were able to make it along. @EDAC is more than a research grant or network – we are a #community of #Autistic people, (1/2)

Well that was an amazing opening night of the EDAC "you're not alone" exhibition of Autistic experiences of ED's! Huge shout out to the amazing @Karri_G_Smith , Kyle and Sarah for the enormous amount of work pulling this together and for everyone who made it along tonight 🥰🥰🥰

We are recruiting UK based clinicians in eating disorder services to think about barriers & enablers for implementing autism affirming care, for example PEACE pathway. If you would be willing to be interviewed over TEAMS there is more information here! edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🧠 Eating disorders often co-exist with autism, yet research in this area remains limited. Foundation-funded Dr Fiona Duffy & Dr Karri Gillespie-Smith are working to change that. Through @edaceatingautism.bsky.social, they’ve shared best-practice research guidelines. Read more: bit.ly/4k8JN8W #EDAW

Medical Research Foundation | Eating disorders and autism -…

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