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…
Posts Tagged: research
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…
Freedom & Chains
My latest publication is out this month: Delderfield, R. (2016) Freedom and chains: the duality of the university experience for young men with eating disorders. University and College Counselling Journal.
The problem with ED research…?
As part of my research into male disordered eating, at the end of last year I read an article: ‘Perceptions of the causes of eating disorders: a comparison of individuals…
Follow my research on Twitter
I’m now on Twitter. Follow me to see the results of my research, how I’m sharing this & the male eating disorders work that I’m involved in.
Achalasia or Anorexia Nervosa?
One of the issues that clinicians face is that eating disorders are not simple to diagnose. Take for instance, achalasia. This is a rare physical disorder that affects the oesophagus…
Thesis organisation…
Exploring male disordered eating identities: a hermeneutic study of men’s stories of their experiences with food, body and self. Abstract Acknowledgements Chapter 1 – Introduction and literature Brief contextual overview…
Defiantly Hermeneutic
What has struck me, from my humble beginnings almost twelve months ago when my call for participants ended, is just how ‘wrong’ the current one size fits all of research…
Manorexia? I don’t think so.
This is, of course, my edited elements of my research journal so I only really used it for campaigning in EDAW. However, this morning I took part in a discussion…
Feel the fear…
I have been immersed in my interpretive work most of the day again, but I’ve broken off, firstly because I need a break (my eyes are going glassy from close…
Interpreting 2011 – the death of Bricolage.
This year began and I was overwhelmed by the feeling that from being ahead (planning to transfer in late 2009) I was now firmly behind on my transfer paper. I…
Interpreting the first 3 years of my research journey. Part 3.
There were some significant elements of the research that had morphed or vanished by the time the website was launched in January 2010 – with an official launch taking place…