How do males who identify as eating-disordered understand their own experiences? Designing the Research.

Here’s the research design in brief so you can see what the project currently involves (this has been ethically approved by an anonymous review panel) and you can also get…

Interpreting the first 3 years of my research journey. Part 2.

In 2009 I not only completed the remainder of the research modules I had to do, I worked with the university’s web team to create a web space as the…

Eating Disorders Research – first blogged @ MGEDT

Back in May 2011 I gave a presentation at the Men Get Eating Disorders Too Conference; I was there as a trustee but mainly as the ‘less personal experience, more research…

Interpreting the first 3 years of my research journey. Part 1.

This entry is an attempt to ‘story out’ the first 3 years of my research journey (slightly more actually) which began when I began seriously thinking that it would be…

Journal entries

Appearing very shortly will be a series of posts which are summarised entries of my research journal so you can glean an idea of what’s going been going through my…

Training about eating disorders in males

The following is from the national charity I am one of the trustees of: Are you a professional wanting to know more about male eating disorders? We are taking bookings…

The media’s moving!

Last week we had the announcement (which I’ve yet to probe deeper on, as there’s often a discrepancy between the original report and the media version) about the 66% increase…

BBC Radio Leeds

Yesterday I gave a live interview with Adam Pope on his morning show talking about eating disorders in men, my personal experiences and my research. I have to say, it…

Organising my search for eating disorders material

Well, as you can tell I’m in a mixture of a contemplative and an organising frame of mind. These are my musings on how to be as thorough as possible…

Making a firm decision on final journal format for interpretation work.

I originally considered the use of OneNote for journalling when making ethical decisions, in my presentation in 2009. It would be good to pick up some of the threads from…

MGEDT conference (in the ‘aftermath’) and writing.

Last week I spoke at the conference held by Men Get Eating Disorders Too. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience but felt slightly disappointed at the low turnout of something which…

‘A Platform for which men can get their voices heard’ – MGEDT Half Day Conference

‘A Platform for which men can get their voices heard’ – MGEDT Half Day Conference May 19th (12-4pm), Community Base, Central Brighton. I’ll be delivering a talk about my early…

The Psychology of Eating Disorders Stigma

‘The fugly man’: male experiences of living in an eating disordered body.

Pluralistic Qualitative Research into Male Eating Disorders

The enigma of male eating disorders: A critical review and synthesis (Murray et al. 2017)