Garcia Ashdown-Franks, PhD

Only a few days to apply for the below PhD with fee waiver on co-creating mental health solutions for women in sport 🎓

PARTICIPANTS NEEDED👀 We are looking for UK-based #ActuallyAutistic folks to take part in a one-to-one interview to help us explore how they feel about their body and certain eating styles If interested, why not send me (an autistic researcher) an email at PL428@pgr.aru.ac.uk

The advert for this post @YSJPsych is now live! We're hoping to generate preliminary data towards development of a more intersectional understanding of EDs. Link to application form here - jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… Please share widely and let me know if you have Qs.

This whole private pharma scheme is a black mirror style dystopia. The damage that @UKLabour are doing is immense. Wrongly equating fatness with unhealthy, idle and unemployable. The lazy thing here is the stereotyping of fat people as a monolith

Very excited to share my first publication. @LouMansfield101 @DrNeilStephens @brunelchwl Elicitation using kit bag methods: Exploring embodied practice with female boxers - Elaine de Vos, Louise Mansfield, Neil Stephens, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

👋 A new passion project of mine has gone live! If you’re eligible & you’d be keen to chat about your post partum #bodyimage, please register your interest using the link 🔗. Womens health is so underfunded and under researched - any reposts would be very appreciated 🤍

The passive language in this headline is tantamount to a microagression. By obscuring the true reality of how Rebecca died, you value her life differently. It makes it seem like she is not worthy of the outrage of murder, and ergo the pursuit of justice.

📣📣📣 I'm hiring a postdoc starting Sept 1. Great opp to dig into sport ecology research and collab with some cool people on grant-funded projects. Must hold PhD in kin/sport soc/sport mgmt OR in enviro studies/related field. DM for more info or referrals & plz share!

Extremely productive writing day at @friendshouseldn ! Thank you @Bruneluni for providing a space for the PhD students to have an effective writing day!

Fabulous writing retreat and public engagement workshop expertly organized by @Garcia__AF for early career researchers @LouMansfield101 @senseaboutsci @_emily_ankers @jagiffo @FroomeHannah @elainedevos72 @Amy_Prescott @vanhoorn_LA

Great to see another citation of my work on #parkun in this new paper: A Therapeutic Landscape for Some but Not for All: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Bethlem Royal Hospital Parkrun doi.org/10.1123/ssj.20…

Excited to share my final (and my most proud!) PhD paper: doi.org/10.1123/ssj.20… @sabi_catz @UofTKPE @brunelchwl @Human_Kinetics

Ooh thanks for highlighting this. Delighted to have worked on this one @LouMansfield101 @NormaDaykin @brunelchwl Do share if of interest @NeilOConnell

That is incredible! Wonderful to see @iofthetigress and @NAAFAofficial tireless work being publicly acknowledged!

Over the past month, with your help, we have doubled the number of signatures on this petition We have 8 more days to reach our target of 100,000 so we can trigger a debate in Parliament Sign and share to support our call for a Gaza Family Scheme 👇 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

V nice paper. I think it’s safe to say we can be confident that exercise is helpful for depression now 😁 bmj.com/content/384/bm… Effects comparable to other treatments. Not 1.5 times better like the falsehood that keeps getting repeated 😉

I’ve been around @parkrun for 17 years, and it’s changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. The reasons behind that are clear to me … it brings people together, to be social, active, and outdoors. All of which I believe to be innate needs for all human beings. That’s what’s important, and that’s what must remain free, for everyone, forever. Other things will change over time, they always have and they always will. Thankfully, over the next 48 hours, starting in New Zealand, around 400,000 people will get together to walk, run, volunteer, or just hang out, in this great celebration of humanity. #loveparkrun

📣 Call for evidence open - looking for studies about creativity & personal #wellbeing 🎨 🎭 🎥 Reports should: 📌 Assess interventions that involve adults 📌Use qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods designs 📌Be in written form More info: whatworkswellbeing.org/blog/call-for-…

I weighed in on Rubiales, RFEF and a fight that shouldn't have to be fought. My latest for @cbcsports #ContigoJenni cbc.ca/sports/soccer/…

Canada’s Quinn brings joyful trans and non-binary representation to the Women’s World Cup thepinknews.com/2023/07/22/qui…