Research Journal
I am honoured to have been mentioned by Mirror-Mirror.org. Helping to improve public understanding of the nature of male eating disorders is just as important as advancing new knowledge gleaned…
Thanks to everyone whom I met at the event at Sheffield Medical School. I was particularly struck by how welcoming everyone was and the high quality of the questions that…
There is a such a thing as a Severe and Enduring Eating Disorder (SEED). My own disorder as been severe at different points in my life, and has been heading…
I wrote a piece this month for the online ED magazine, Mirror-mirror.org. Using some of my qualitative analysis of published stories, written by men who have endured disordered eating, I…
Assessing the prevalence of disordered eating in males continues to be a complex puzzle. Below, I try to make sense of what we can learn from the research literature to…
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to be a binge-eater who is male…and fat. Gone are the days when my bingeing was disguised by the edifices…
It has been a goodly while since I updated my research journal because I’ve been finishing my PhD, which I submitted yesterday (excitingly). This week the media has had a…
Tomorrow I’m giving a lecture as part of University of Bradford’s Diversity Festival. This session explores society’s abiding desire for binary genders, the changing nature of 21st century masculinities and…
If you’ve read my EDAW posts, you’ll know that I’ve been trying in earnest to begin a recovery programme to free myself from the grip of this set of habits…
Beginning to earnestly work on my recovery again has reminded me of a sad but essential fact – working toward recovery is exhausting – and that’s only after four days….
A long time ago, my therapist asked me if my being vegetarian was more related to my eating disorder than it was to a conscious lifestyle decision around the avoidance…
