📢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

Eating disorders can affect anybody, from any age, sex, gender, and background. Yet limiting stereotypes still exist about who can be affected by eating disorders. #eatingdisordersawarenessweek #EDAW youtu.be/JBmOI8xKAc8?...

Eating Disorders, Ethnicity and Culture

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📢 New interview study: Tell us about your experiences with PCOS and eating disorders/disordered eating! Follow this link for more information and to sign up: edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @edresearch.bsky.social @medresfdn.bsky.social

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_...

What a week with two new papers published from our group! First one is Sarah moody, @drhelensharpe.bsky.social, @tineopitz.bsky.social and the @edifyresearch.bsky.social crew on asssociations between fitness and diet technology and disordered eating onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Associations Between the Use of Fitness and Diet Tracking Technology and Disordered Eating Behaviour: A Systematic Review

Background The fitness and wellbeing technology industry is growing rapidly. Concerns are emerging regarding whether these may increase disordered eating behaviours. This review is the first to syst.....

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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_...

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.

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]

[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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Another new publication led by the fab @lolobruha.bsky.social ... a systematic review on the prevalence and risk factors for disordered eating in systemic lupus journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A systematic review on the prevalence of, and risk factors for, eating disorders in systemic lupus erythematosus - Lauren Bruha, Fiona Duffy, Raahat Manrai, Helen Sharpe, 2025

Systematic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease with significant physical and psychological challenges. Case studies have highlighted examp...

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Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded funding to lead my own research project looking into the association between eating disorders (ED) and PCOS! Grateful to @medresfdn.bsky.social for supporting this work and further important ED research. Very much looking forward to the journey ahead!

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Meet our new #EatingDisorder researchers! 🔬 🔎 Funded by our latest round of launchpad grants, these brilliant scientists are working to advance our understanding of various life-threatening eating disorders, from binge-eating disorder to bulimia nervosa. #MedSky 👉 Full story: shorturl.at/8brFt

New publication by our very own sarah moody, @drhelensharpe.bsky.social and @tineopitz.bsky.social alongside the rest of the @edifyresearch.bsky.social gang exploring associations between use of fitness trackers and disordered eating onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Associations Between the Use of Fitness and Diet Tracking Technology and Disordered Eating Behaviour: A Systematic Review

Background The fitness and wellbeing technology industry is growing rapidly. Concerns are emerging regarding whether these may increase disordered eating behaviours. This review is the first to syst.....

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

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

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

we re at Edinburgh Futures Institute, room 1.50 - the food is there, looking amazing, and we are looking forward to two great presentations by Jay Burns and Kathrin Lauber! @scafarc.bsky.social @edresearch.bsky.social

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Join SCAF in Edinburgh (and online!) next Thursday to hear from Dr Kathrin Lauber about corporate power in the food system & Dr Jay Burns about biodiversity policy 🌱 We'll be in @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social from 10am-5pm to discuss SCAF activities & opportunities 👋 ➡️ bit.ly/41nimzA #foodstudies

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_...

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_...

Day 5 of EDAW: We are so lucky to have some amazing PhD students working with us using innovative methods and in a range of areas. One of those is Sian who is exploring parent adolescent interactions at the moment.

Day 4 of #EDAW updates from Edinburgh University. @fionaduffy.bsky.social, @eatsleeplaugh.bsky.social and @drhelensharpe.bsky.social are working on an NIHR project led by Dr Tom Jewell on the impact of the introduction of calories on menus in England on individuals with eating disorders

🧠 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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Day 3 of #EDAW updates! We are delighted to highlight EDIFY today which is co-led by @drhelensharpe.bsky.social . @edifyresearch.bsky.social is a 4 year programme of research focused on how we understand and treat eating disorders in young people. Www.edifyresearch.co.uk

For Day 2 of our daily #EDAW updates, we are delighted that Michelle Carroll is studying with us extending our research groups work on social media, body image and eating behaviours. Michelle is looking to recruit online personal trainers who use social media to promote their business.

Day 1 #EDAW25 updates from us is that we are delighted to host the eating disorders and autism collaborative (EDAC) for updates you can find them here @edaceatingautism.bsky.social and www.edacresearch.co.uk where they have open access publications, interviews with researchers and opportunities

📣This #edaw2025, we wanted to share a recent animation we made with Woven Ink on food insecurity in people with eating disorders. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMhU...

Food Insecurity in Eating Disorders: A Short Animation

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Please stay tuned during this years #EDAW where we will be bringing you daily updates of all the eating disorder research taking place at Edinburgh University....

EDAC is proud to host an exhibition of photographs, drawings and digital art on the experience and research priorities of autistic people with eating disorders . inspace.ed.ac.uk/youre-not-al.... 1st to 8th march (closed Sunday Tuesday and Thursday, free drop in 10-5 quiet hour on sat.

New publication from @tineopitz.bsky.social @drhelensharpe.bsky.social and the @edifyresearch.bsky.social crew on the relationship between sleep and eating behaviours 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Investigating the longitudinal bi-directional relationship between self-reported restrictive eating behaviours and sleep in UK adolescents within the Millennium Cohort Study - European Child & Adolesc...

Objective This study aimed to investigate the longitudinal bi-directional relationship between self-reported restrictive eating behaviours and sleep characteristics within a sample of UK adolescents f...

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Calorie labels on menus are negatively impacting people with eating disorders. A new study from @kingsnmpc.bsky.social published in the BMJ Public Health found that people with eating disorders changed their behaviours if presented with calorie labels on a menu. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/calorie...

Calorie labels on menus could make eating disorders worse

Calorie labels on restaurant menus are negatively impacting people with eating disorders, according to a new study.

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