Dr Elizabeth H. Evans @dr-liz-evans.bsky.social · 15/03/2025After a week of reading dissertations, a well earned stretch! 070
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans @dr-liz-evans.bsky.social · 18/02/2025This time, sharing some of my spouse’s work :) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...theguardian.com‘Fix poverty, fix health’: A day in the life of a ‘failing’ NHSA 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... 050
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans @dr-liz-evans.bsky.social · 29/01/2025So 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...lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.ukPerspectives in Body Image: An international online conference - ACE labDates: 16th-18th Sept 2025 Abstract deadline: 15th April 2025 PBI is a conference that brings together researchers from diverse disciplines and regions working on body image (broadly defined) and soci... 050
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans @dr-liz-evans.bsky.social · 15/01/2025LOVE 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...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov‘Let me tell you, I see echolalia as being a part of my son’s identity’: Exploring echolalia as an expression of neurodiversity from a parental perspectiveEcholalia 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 ... 070
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans @dr-liz-evans.bsky.social · 19/11/2024(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?doi.org<em>British Journal of Health Psychology</em> | Wiley Online LibraryObjectives Parents infrequently recognize childhood overweight/obesity and healthcare professionals (HCPs) also struggle to visually identify it, potentially limiting the offer and uptake of weight ... 180
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans @dr-liz-evans.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Our 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....tandfonline.comMeasuring eating disorders in Autistic people: a proposal for future researchWhile diagnostic pathways for identifying Autism in eating disorder (ED) populations have been developed, the field continues to lack validated psychometric tools to measure EDs for use in the Auti... 2299
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans @dr-liz-evans.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Durham Cathedral illuminated for Remembrance Day - beautiful! 030
Dr Elizabeth H. Evans @dr-liz-evans.bsky.social · 27/10/2024Delighted to join BSky after feeling really uncomfortable with Twitter for a while - glad to finally make the leap! 1544