It's #WorldObesityDay. Check out our NIHR funded intervention aimed at helping people living with severe obesity below 👇 PROGROUP Study

Great to welcome Dr Lily Hawkins back to PEACh Research Aston to give a seminar about the Progroup project ExeterPsychology! Thank you Lily 🤩

So great to be back at PEACh Research Aston talking about the PROGROUP Study yesterday! Thanks for having me! 😊

Thanks for write up Aston University PR - link to article here: doi.org/10.1177/205520…

Thanks Exeter Med School! Link to article: doi.org/10.1177/205520…

Really looking forward to sharing research from PROGROUP Study at #ECO2024 in a few weeks! Watch out for me on the G-Communications screens talking about what we've learned from patient experiences and intervention delivery to optimise our intervention. See you in Venice! 😁

Fantastic few days at #ECO2024 meeting new faces and representing PROGROUP Study with Dr Shokraneh Moghadam (she/her). Great sessions on mental health and great to hear from people living with severe obesity in lots of sessions too, esp powerful talk from Alina Constantin Grazie 🇮🇹

So lovely to see Dr Shokraneh Moghadam (she/her) and Dr Lily Hawkins in Venice representing the PROGROUP Study. Two brilliant EASO Early Career Network psychologists doing important work in obesity treatment 🤩

Dr Dr Shokraneh Moghadam (she/her) & Dr Dr Lily Hawkins from the PROGROUP Study team recently attended the European Congress on Obesity EASO to present on the PROGROUP Study They enjoyed sessions on behavioural & pharmaceutical interventions & hearing from people living with obesity #ECO2024

PROGROUP PAPER ALERT! Which components of behavioural weight management programmes are essential for weight loss in people living with obesity? A rapid review of systematic reviews led by our brilliant researcher Dr Lily Hawkins Access our paper below: doi.org/10.1111/obr.13…

Definitely second that, great Association for the Study of Obesity UK ECR event yesterday - some really interesting and relevant sessions! 👌🏻 Thanks to the organisers!

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Great job @Laura Hollands

A fab Association for the Study of Obesity UK #UKCO2024 in Oxford. 🤩 Great to connect with experts by experience, fellow ECRs, researchers and psychologists, and discuss optimisation of the PROGROUP Study Standout talk from Sarah Le Brocq and Dr Charlotte Albury on guidance for compassionate dr-pt communication.

🚨 LAST CHANCE to sign up to hear us talk about delivering group interventions in weight management services! Sign up using the link 👇🏻 bps.org.uk/event/group-ba… Deadline is tomorrow 2nd Oct!

Great to talk on the process evaluation of our feasibility trial, at this event showcasing PROGROUP Study with BPS South West. Lovely to see fellow psychologists and researchers too! ☺️

1/ Powerful insights from the Psychology & Mental Health session at #ECO2025 today. Speakers like Andrea Arroyo-Fernández, Alexandra Costa, Lilly Hawkins & more highlighted just how central psychology is to understanding and treating obesity. 🧠👇

A privilege to talk at #ECO2025 Psychology and Mental Health session in Málaga yesterday, on patients' views of the role of psychological support within behavioural interventions, from the PROGROUP fRCT. Thanks to chairs Amy Ahern & Susie B PROGROUP Study University of Exeter