IAS Spotlight: Climate Change, Body Image, Eating Behaviours and Wellbeing

The International Academy for Body Image, Eating Problems and Health is formed of a group of researchers focused on understanding more about the development and occurrence of body image concerns and eating problems. Current members are from Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Spain, the United States of America and the United Kingdom.

Established in 2016, the Academy is an unfunded international collaboration which has already successfully completed one large scale cross-cultural study and has now launched the second. The current research focuses on exploring perceptions of climate change in relation to body image, eating behaviours and wellbeing among young adults and is running across 15 countries.

This spotlight event will be comprised firstly of presentations which will introduce the Academy and the current research project, reflect on conducting cross-cultural research with multiple countries and outline preliminary findings. The second part of this event will include a roundtable discussion relating to experiences and advice for maintaining successful and unfunded international collaborations.

Programme:

• Introduction to the International Academy for Body Image, Eating Problems and Health. Dr Esben Strodl
• Rationale and theoretical model for the current research project exploring perceptions about climate change, body image, mental health and eating behaviours among young adults. Dr Rachel Rodgers
• Reflections on conducting cross-cultural research. Professor Jacinthe Dion, Professor Annie Aimé, Professor Alvaro Sicilia Camacho, Dr Naomi Hayami
• Preliminary findings of the current research project. Professor Gianluca Lo Coco, Dr Esben Strodl
• Roundtable discussion: Experiences of maintaining successful and unfunded international collaborations (all Academy members).