We are currently recruiting adults age 16 or over based in the UK with a clinical or self diagnosed eating disorder who have experience of using, or attempting to obtain, GLP-1 weight loss injections. Please do complete the survey here edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

And we are very glad you agreed to doing this thing! It is fab, thanks you so much for bringing all your loved experience and expertise! 👏👏👏

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee5q... - I did a thing

Myself and @drhelensharpe.bsky.social have combined 2 0.4WTE postdocs to make 0.8 for 1 person or two 0.4 posts thanks to @medresfdn.bsky.social funding. Will be working across developing resources for food insecurity in EDs and adaptations to FT-AN for autistic young people at Edinburgh uni.

[2/2] A huge congratulations to: 🟩 @fionaduffy.bsky.social from The University of Edinburgh 🟩 @nicolabyrom.bsky.social from King's College London 🟩 @drhelensharpe.bsky.social from the University of Edinburgh 🟩 @dashanicholls.bsky.social from Imperial College London 👉 Read more: shorturl.at/GbQQk

Meet the recipients of our new Eating Disorders Research Changing Policy and Practice Awards! ✨ These exceptional researchers are working to share their findings with healthcare professionals & policymakers, to improve support for those affected by life-threatening eating disorders. [1/2]

We are recruiting Autistic adults (formal diagnosis or self identified), over 16years and fluent in English, who have experienced CBT-E for anorexia, bulimia or binge eating disorder in the past 3 years for a survey and an optional follow up interviews. edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🔍 Researchers from the Eating Disorders and Autism Collaborative (#EDAC) have used an innovative 'photo voice' technique to empower Autistic people with eating disorders to shape the direction of future research. #MedSky 📄 read paper: lnkd.in/dAWSUVyT 🖼️ view virtual exhibition: lnkd.in/dnBHnAh5

📣 We’ve now opened our second phase of recruitment and are inviting cisgender adults with a current or past eating disorder to share their experiences too. Please follow the link to find out more: tinyurl.com/LEADINGStudy1

Recruitment call for clinicians working in UK ED services (NHS or private practice) that are looking to implement the PEACE framework 📣 To find out more and to take part in the study, please see the poster below or click the following link: edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Very privileged to have received "highly commended" at Edinburgh Uni's Research Impact Prize event today for team culture! So great for our hardworking team and collaborators to be acknowledged .... not all of our team could make it along so this is for them!

Autistic women or Non-binary folks (18+) needed 📢 With support from @edaceatingautism.bsky.social, we would like to hear your valuable expertise to review an intervention that aims to prevent body image concerns and disordered eating. For more info, please email Hannah at [email protected]

We are looking for #autistic & #ADHD people in Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 to fill in a survey about experiences (in the last 10 years) of pregnancy, birth and the 1st year of being a parent. The survey is here👇 nait.scot/news-and-eve... @nctcharity.bsky.social @semascot.bsky.social @scottishautism.bsky.social

We are recruiting Autistic adults (formal diagnosis or self identified), over 16years and fluent in English, who have experienced CBT-E for anorexia, bulimia or binge eating disorder in the past 3 years for a survey and an optional follow up interviews. edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Spent a great few days in Edinburgh this week with the @edaceatingautism.bsky.social team and others funded under the @ukri.org collaborations in eating disorders research call. Fab opportunity to chat all things peer research and hear updates from ECRs and teams working in the field.

Day two in Edinburgh; looking forward to hearing about the incredible research that is being done across the Eating Disorder Research Network. Any conference with @edaceatingautism.bsky.social branded fidget spinners gets my vote!

New research paper using photovoice to explore research priorities with autistic individuals with eating disorders onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Our @edaceatingautism.bsky.social postdoc @emynimbley.bsky.social has made this amazing clip of a recent ESRC Impact Acceleration event supporting lived experience, clinicians and researchers to come together to share understanding of autism and eating disorders, narrated by one of our collaborators

New publication which EDAC is proud to be part of supporting implementation of PEACE pathway in clinical services www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17...

New EDAC publication from our postdoc Michelle Sader, we will upload a plain speaking summary of this on our website shortly 👍 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New podcast dropping today on autistic trans and non binary peoples experience of eating disorders open.spotify.com/show/6tEaThW...

In-person ECR event for eating disorder researchers in UK on 8th May, focusing on funding applications and co-production. An optional second day networking event with 4 UKRI-funded ED research. ✍️Register interest here: qualtricsxm8tn52zk86.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Are you a health care professional working in #EatingDisorders? KateTchanturia and her team’s workshop ‘Link between Eating disorders and #Autism: PEACE pathway Conference’ will share specially developed resources to take back to your clinic. #MedSky #AcademicSky Register: bit.ly/3Sk2Xgl

We are delighted to present a selection of *Photovoice photographs, drawings and digital art produced by Autistic people with eating disorders on Inspace @designinf.bsky.social City Screens on Potterrow, each evening across this week. #Photovoice #research #collaboration #data #photography

You’re Not Alone photovoice exhibition with @edaceatingautism.bsky.social continues this week! Presenting the experiences and priorities of Autistic people with eating disorders through photographs, drawings and digital art. ⏰ 10am-5pm 📅 Until 8 Mar 2025 | Closed Tues/Thurs 🔗 edin.ac/42KbxdI

We @EDACautism_ED launched our exhibition on Friday and Saturday. We were over the moon that so many participants and collaborators were able to make it along. @EDAC is more than a research grant or network – we are a #community of #Autistic people, (1/2)

Well that was an amazing opening night of the EDAC "you're not alone" exhibition of Autistic experiences of ED's! Huge shout out to the amazing @Karri_G_Smith , Kyle and Sarah for the enormous amount of work pulling this together and for everyone who made it along tonight 🥰🥰🥰

We are recruiting UK based clinicians in eating disorder services to think about barriers & enablers for implementing autism affirming care, for example PEACE pathway. If you would be willing to be interviewed over TEAMS there is more information here! edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🧠 Eating disorders often co-exist with autism, yet research in this area remains limited. Foundation-funded Dr Fiona Duffy & Dr Karri Gillespie-Smith are working to change that. Through @edaceatingautism.bsky.social, they’ve shared best-practice research guidelines. Read more: bit.ly/4k8JN8W #EDAW

To my fellow AuDHDers, I would like to incorporate some PPI into the development of my grant proposal. While I do not have the funds to reimburse you, having your input would be a huge help in pursuing this important work! If interested, DM or email me at [email protected]

For anyone coming along to see our exhibition on autistic experiences of eating disorders and research priorities, our peer researcher @eatsleeplaugh.bsky.social has done this handy video to let you know where to go!

We are also 1) recruiting parents and carers of autistic young people who have experienced family based treatment; and 2) individuals with intellectual disabilities to hear more about their experiences of having an eating disorders. Info on EDACs website and below!

We are also supporting BEAT with their webinar on autism and eating disorders on Wednesday with more information here: workshops.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/workshops/au...

On Friday there is a launch of EDACs exhibition "you're not alone" which is artwork created by Autistic people with eating disorders documenting their experiences and areas they would like people to research. open to the public next week in Edinburgh with info here! inspace.ed.ac.uk/youre-not-al...

Day 1 #EDAW25 updates from us is that we are delighted to host the eating disorders and autism collaborative (EDAC) for updates you can find them here @edaceatingautism.bsky.social and www.edacresearch.co.uk where they have open access publications, interviews with researchers and opportunities

Please stay tuned during this years #EDAW where we will be bringing you daily updates of all the eating disorder research taking place at Edinburgh University....

This one is a must listen for people entering the qualitative field in autism research www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne... 👏👏👏

Excellent podcast on the harms of the borderline personality disorder construct. Must listen: tinyurl.com/mbumjjr9 #AutismNotPD

EDAC is proud to host an exhibition of photographs, drawings and digital art on the experience and research priorities of autistic people with eating disorders . inspace.ed.ac.uk/youre-not-al.... 1st to 8th march (closed Sunday Tuesday and Thursday, free drop in 10-5 quiet hour on sat.

ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-... Latest autism research roundup from me, part of a monthly series for Neurodiverse Connection. I take a look at some of the best, or most surprising, new papers and what they might mean for autistic lives.

Great to see ED research looking beyond the Anorexia lens and to be inclusive of ADHD and autism here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Fascinating thread & Table Talk @edaceatingautism.bsky.social @fergus.oolong.co.uk talking with Kyle Buchan re monotropism & autistic experiences of eating, incl. sensory; impact of cognitive load; neuro-normative expectations; orthorexia; validation; trauma; safe foods & more youtu.be/CUyUkjUgKAw

New publication with @edaceatingautism.bsky.social, @eatsleeplaugh.bsky.social @emynimbley.bsky.social and others, qualitative study of clinicians experience of eating disorder focused family therapy (FBT or FT-AN) with Autistic young people and their families onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Hot off the press! New paper by a range of co-authors including our own @drhelensharpe.bsky.social on key domains that may be relevant to the characterisation of individuals with FED to support personalisation of care👏👏👏👏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Was fab to be at our "sister" research network @edcrn.bsky.social launch today and to see so many enthusiastic clinicians at it!! Such a clever idea taking a step towards meaningful and comparable data to evaluate real life outcomes for people with eating disorders 👌👏👏👏👏

We are so very proud that EDACs Professor Kate Tchanturia had been awarded an MBE the New Years honours list! 👏 👏

Brain differences in children who show symptoms of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) bit.ly/Sader-ARFID-... New blog by Dr. Michelle Sader, neuroscientist and postdoctoral research fellow at the @abdnpsych.bsky.social, currently working on the @edaceatingautism.bsky.social #ARFID

New publication by EDACs amazing post doc Michelle Sader on the Co-occurrence of autism and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder-meta analysis of prevalence rates ... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @karri-g-smith.bsky.social @drhelensharpe.bsky.social @fionaduffy.bsky.social

An early Xmas pressie! Delighted that our best practice guidelines for conducting co-produced research with autistic indivudals with an eating disorder have now been published. Many thanks to all our co-authors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This Cornish lass is going to Texas! Very very excited to be given the opportunity to share what me and my amazing collab pals have been getting up to at #ICED2025. I'll also be sharing an upcoming PhD study of mine 🤸 I also can't wait to get tacos and be jet lagged 💀