Climate Change, Body Image, Eating Behaviours and Wellbeing

The IAS Spotlight "Climate Change, Body Image, Eating Behaviours and Wellbeing" is led by Dr Hannah White (School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences)

And features confirmed IAS Visiting Fellows - 

• Professor Annie Aimé, Université du Québec en Outaouais
• Professor Jacinthe Dion, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
• Associate Professor Naomi Hayami, Osaka Metropolitan University
• Professor Gianluca Lo Coco, Northeastern University
• Dr Rachel F Rodgers, Northeastern University
• Professor Alvaro Sicilia-Camacho, Universidad de Almería
• Associate Professor Esben Strodl, Queensland University of Technology

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.

For more details and to book, please visit the event page.