After a week of reading dissertations, a well earned stretch!
Durham Cathedral illuminated for Remembrance Day - beautiful!
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...
Shout out to fantastic coauthors @veraaraujosoares.bsky.social Beth Ridley (joint first author), Martin Tovee, Piers Cornelissen, and Robin Kramer!
Delighted to join BSky after feeling really uncomfortable with Twitter for a while - glad to finally make the leap!
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...
(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?
This time, sharing some of my spouse’s work :) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...
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....
(2/2) AND people rightfully worry about categorising child weight in stigmatising ways. The more anti-stigma they are, the less they use these categories: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Time to consider NEW ways to communicate about this topic, prioritising child health & wellbeing first?
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans
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 ...
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...
