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Big changes such as going to university can be difficult to navigate, especially being away from familiar settings if you've been affected by an eating disorder. So, we are joining Student Minds and UMHAN this #UniMentalHealthDay to let you know that you are not alone 💜

The paper finds that food insecurity exacerbates eating disorder symptoms and hinders patients' recovery efforts. Moreover, there is an urgent need to provide clinicians with resources and training to help manage food insecurity in ED care. Read more here: mdpi.com/2072-6643/18/5…

📣NEW PAPER📣 Recently published work, led by Callum Bryson, explores food insecurity experiences in people with lived experience of an eating disorder, including their perspectives on seeking help for their food insecurity and suggestions for improving clinical guidance.

Dr Heike Bartel and Dr Tamsin Parnell are leading a virtual workshop today exploring the relationship between social media, eating disorders, and online safety. #eatingdisordersawarenessweek #EDAW @beatED @ConsiderMaleEDs

Important piece in The Conversation which makes reference to our article in Journal of Eating Disorders about vulnerable young people finding themselves in spirals of eating disorder content on TikTok - in part due to algorithms. @EDIFYresearch theconversation.com/how-social-med…

Their words remind us that we need different perspectives and new voices to broaden our understanding of eating disorders. @beatED @UKRI_News @EdinburghUni @ConsiderMaleEDs @kingsedresearch @FREEDfromED @UniofNottingham @NIHRMaudsleyBRC @KingsIoPPN

Our film highlights the experiences of young people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, who share their perspectives on how their ethnicity and culture impacted their experience of developing, living with and seeking help for an eating disorder.

Eating disorders can affect anybody, from any age, sex, gender, and background. Yet limiting stereotypes still exist about who can be affected by eating disorders. #eatingdisordersawarenessweek #EDAW youtu.be/JBmOI8xKAc8

Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW) happens each year to increase understanding of eating disorders and the many ways they can affect people’s lives. Despite common stereotypes, eating disorders can affect people of all ages, genders, backgrounds and body types.

@beatED @UKRI_News @NIHRMaudsleyBRC @EdinburghUni @kingsedresearch

Informed by lived experience, and created by researchers from the EDIFY programme and the animation company Woven Ink, this short animated film aims to raise awareness of these challenges and emphasise that everyone deserves understanding, support, and access to care.

Eating disorders occur across the weight spectrum, yet people in larger bodies often face extra barriers when trying to get their eating disorder recognised and treated. youtu.be/zadJqBBfx-s #eatingdisordersawarenessweek #EDAW @KingsIoPPN @FREEDfromED @ConsiderMaleEDs

@EDIFYresearch 🔎 Take the time to reflect on your own knowledge and beliefs surrounding eating disorders: What's helpful, and how can we do better? 💚 edifyresearch.co.uk #NEDAW

@EDIFYresearch 🌈 @EDIFYresearch is doing some brilliant interdisciplinary work blending the arts, sciences and humanities to fill our knowledge gaps surrounding eating disorder risk and resilience, illness and recovery trajectories and targets for personalised interventions. #NEDAW

📊 Recently, we had the pleasure of coming together with other UKRI-funded projects at the AMHDM conference, including @EDIFYresearch: Eating Disorders: Delineating illness and recovery trajectories to inform personalised prevention and early intervention in young people (EDIFY)

Monday is the start of #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek 2026 - and with the theme being Community, we wanted to say a big THANK YOU to our eating disorder and mental health community, who are working with us 💜 Check out and follow them below! #EDAW2026 #YouAreNotAlone