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📢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, Ethnicity and Culture YouTube video by EDIFY research

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

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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_...

A systematic review of the prevalence of disordered eating in fitness professionals Disordered eating (DE) is becoming increasingly prevalent, and fitness professionals may be at elevated risk due to profession-specific pressures such…

We also have Michelle Carroll leading a paper on the prevalence of disordered eating in fitness professionals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 👏👏👏👏

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.....

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/...

@lolobruha.bsky.social @drhelensharpe.bsky.social @fionaduffy.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_...

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]

Medical Research Foundation | Transforming eating disorder care…

[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

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...

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/...

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!

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.....

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/...

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

An so sorry we have missed this!! Would have popped across as would be fab to link in!

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!

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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_...

Sian is recruiting parent-teen pairs where the teen is 13-15 years & has diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. Tasks include solving a logic problem and questionnaires, online or face to face. Participation in Edinburgh or online. More info here: edinburgh.eu.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.

Yes good point! Open to people in England only where the policy is in place...

We are delighted that partially as a result of some of this research the Scottish Government agreed to pause its introduction of this policy until further research was conducted, and the Scottish food standards agency is exploring different options aligned with research findings

We are still recruiting for a survey of people with eating disorders experience of calories on menus

We would love to hear from more people who identify as men.

Please RT and share with your networks! 🙏 tinyurl.com/yt6xjzx5

Individuals with restrictive eating disorders' experience of the introduction of calories on menus in England: An interpretative phenomenological analysis study Many of the participants believed that calorie counting played a pivotal role in their experience of an eating disorder (ED), and that the calorie labelling legislation normalised this via (1) its...

This was on the back of our publication in 2023 exploring individuals with restrictive eating disorders experiences of the introduction of the calories on menus policy in England onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Top right image of Edinburgh with logo of Edinburgh uni and words eating disorders and behaviour research group. Top left EDAW 2025 in capitals. Bottom of the image is text stating day 4: Calories on Menus: impact on individuals with eating disorders

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