University of Sheffield – Autoethnography of MED
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…
Posts Categorized: Eating Disorders in Men
Researching and Writing about Male Eating Disorders
Fear. That’s the only word for it. Abject, unadulterated fear. And yet, I feel as if I’m making too big a deal of it. Although it has taken me until…
“Seeing shouldn’t always be believing”: Reflections
Back in May, I bookmarked a piece that I wanted to make sure that I read in the New Scientist. Claire Wilson wrote ‘Our brains prefer invented visual information to…
Treating my Enduring Eating Disorder
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…
The enigma of male eating disorders: A critical review and synthesis (Murray et al. 2017)
The above titled article is newly out in Clinical Psychology Review. Here, I present a cursory analysis of the review and its significance. Here is the abstract: Historically, male presentations…
Experiences of Male Eating Disorder
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…
Quick Musing on New Male Eating Disorders Article
There’s a new article released by Trends in Urology and Men’s Health. It’s a salient, speedy read that covers the essentials and it’s aimed primarily at clinician practitioners to help…
Pluralistic Qualitative Methods for Male Eating Disorders
My new project has a novel twist on studying male eating disorders using qualitative analysis. Often in qualitative research, a researcher will take a set of data from something like…
Prevalence of Male Eating Disorders
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…
The Fat Male Body in Eating Disorders Research
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…
Managing Research Activity
I feel as if I’ve got an awful lot to do over the next six months, and whilst I have a to-do list app that I actively use on a…
Viva
Yesterday I defended my thesis ‘Exploring male disordered eating: a hermeneutic study of men’s relationships with food, body and self.’ I passed, without corrections. I can’t actually express how thrilled…