Field accepted our ambitious brief to create an animation through shapes and motion to explain ‘Our Approach to Addressing Obesity’. Read how their team worked on the 1-min animation for us to share for #WorldObesityDay2023: bit.ly/3L4xN7C #LBUObesityInstitute

👇 and we do them rather well. Speak to our team to learn more !

🏆New ASO award recognises the work of Ken Clare. ASO members can apply for the Ken Clare Award for excellence in patient and public involvement and engagement with obesity research. The value of the award is £500, to be presented at #UKCO2023🌟 ow.ly/BZGs50OWRgr

Do low-carb diets help you lose weight? Here's what the science says The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand theconversation.com/do-low-carb-di…

Fantastic work - great podcast!

If you work in #eatingdisorders or #obesity/#weightmanagement #research or treatment, please complete our short survey. Help us explore gaps in provision & identify the potential barriers and facilitators to greater collaborative working between fields. #clinicians #practitioners

PLEASE, please, please BBC News (UK) can you use person first language when covering stories on obesity bbc.co.uk/news/health-66…

Fantastic speakers on weight stigma and compassionate approaches YORA webinar!

Our co-director, Professor @louisa_Ells, is also a speaker at TEDx @LeedsBeckett today. Louisa’s talk titled ‘The weight of words’ will explore why we need to change the narrative around obesity, watch the video to hear more. Find out more about TEDx Leeds Beckett at the link.

Liverpool has long been a trailblazer in weight-loss-policy - now the City Council has cut its #obesity services. I got a letter in December telling me that the Aintree LOSS service is to close. I was not alone over 4500 people are affected. livpost.co.uk/p/an-unprecede…

Read our latest newsletter for updates on our recent activities & explore what we've been doing for the last few months bit.ly/OI_Edition3  If you're interested in collaborating with our institute, use the contact details in the newsletter & get in touch #LBUObesityInstitute

Thank you to a College I am very proud of! And yes we can!🙏

Funded PhD studentship now advertised with Dr Jordan Marwood, @JNHealth, and myself. 🏢 Leeds Beckett, Obesity Institute 💰 £18,622 📅 1st October 2024 ✉️ [email protected] 🔗 leedsbeckett.ac.uk/the-graduate-s…

Join our team as a #ResearchFellow. You'll engage in mixed methods research on an NIHR-funded project, collaborating closely with stakeholders, children, young people & families living with excess weight. Find out more & apply bit.ly/3HiWH2a #ObesityResearch

🗞️ Papers published online today in the British Journal of Diabetes detail the findings of the Re:Mission study, undertaken by researchers Research and Enterprise at Leeds Beckett. The papers evaluate the qualitative aspects of the NHS England Low Calorie Diet Pilots 🔗 ow.ly/RsqH50RgaJB NHS Diabetes Programme

A few more weeks to hear from anyone interested in a PhD study embedded within #NIHR funded #ENHANCE study. Potential for direct impact on NHS England #CEW clinics...

Congratulations 👏 EDIT collaborators Prof Marian Tanofsky-Kraff, Prof Denise Wilfley and Dr Jack Yanovski on their paper "Emotional dysregulation moderates the relation between perceived stress and emotional eating in adolescent military dependents". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Great to see such interest in our BJD mini edition providing learning from the patient insight work of our remission.study at the DUK conference :-)

Fantastic session on remission at the DUK conference yesterday!