Functional outcomes in the Cleft Care UK study - Part 3: Oral health and audiology (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Objectives: To compare oral health and hearing outcomes from the Clinical Standards Advisory Group (CSAG, 1998) and the Cleft Care UK (CCUK, 2013) studies. Setting and sample population: Two UK-based cross-sectional st... Read More about Functional outcomes in the Cleft Care UK study - Part 3: Oral health and audiology.

Centralization of services for children born with orofacial clefts in the United Kingdom: A cross-sectional survey (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2014 American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. Objective: To examine current provision of cleft lip and/or palate services in the U.K. and compliance with recommendations made by the Clinical Standards Advisory Group (CSAG) in 1998.Design: Cr... Read More about Centralization of services for children born with orofacial clefts in the United Kingdom: A cross-sectional survey.

Examination of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale and its relation to disordered eating in a young female sample (2014)
Journal Article

Objective Difficulties with emotion regulation is considered an important maintaining factor of disordered eating. One of the most commonly used measures of this construct is the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). The aim of this study... Read More about Examination of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale and its relation to disordered eating in a young female sample.

Fat lives: A feminist psychological exploration (2013)
Book

Ever caught somebody – or yourself – checking out the content of a ‘fat’ person’s supermarket trolley? Ever wondered what lies behind this behaviour, or what it may be like to be at the receiving end of this judging gaze? This book endeavors to addre... Read More about Fat lives: A feminist psychological exploration.

Enhancing dissemination in selective eating disorders prevention: An investigation of voluntary participation among female university students (2013)
Journal Article

Maximising dissemination of efficacious psychological interventions is an important undertaking, particularly in prevention work where the target population may not be seeking help. Consequently, the current study investigated voluntary participation... Read More about Enhancing dissemination in selective eating disorders prevention: An investigation of voluntary participation among female university students.

Using service rationalisation to build a research network: Lessons from the centralisation of UK services for children with cleft lip and palate (2012)
Journal Article

In the UK around a thousand children are born annually with a cleft lip and/or palate that requires treatment. In the last decade services have been centralised in the UK reducing the 57 centres operating on these children in 1998, down to 11 centres... Read More about Using service rationalisation to build a research network: Lessons from the centralisation of UK services for children with cleft lip and palate.

Impact of metacognitive acceptance on body dissatisfaction and negative affect: Engagement and efficacy (2012)
Journal Article

Objective: To investigate engagement in metacognitive acceptance and subsequent efficacy with respect to decreasing 2 risk factors for disordered eating, body dissatisfaction (BD), and negative affect (NA). Method: In a pilot experiment, 20 female un... Read More about Impact of metacognitive acceptance on body dissatisfaction and negative affect: Engagement and efficacy.

Understanding the ‘too fat’ body and the ‘too thin’ body: A critical psychological perspective (2012)
Book Chapter

Deconstructing Health and the Un/Healthy Fat Woman (2012)
Journal Article

Dominant discourses represent body weight as a consequence of lifestyle, equating 'fatness' with 'disease' and 'thinness' with 'health'. Consequently, fat subjects become framed as lazy and not willing to follow a 'healthy' lifestyle. In neoliberal s... Read More about Deconstructing Health and the Un/Healthy Fat Woman.

Academic achievement in individuals with cleft: A population-based register study (2012)
Journal Article

Objective: The focus of this study was to determine whether there were any significant differences in academic achievement between students with a cleft and the general population of Swedish students at the typical time of graduation from compulsory... Read More about Academic achievement in individuals with cleft: A population-based register study.

I don’t like the way I look (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Post-feminist advertising laid bare: Young women's talk about the sexually agentic woman of 'midriff' advertising (2011)
Journal Article

This paper presents a feminist Foucauldian analysis of women's interpretations of images of women in post-feminist advertising. Building on Ros Gill's analysis of post-feminist advertising images of women, and more specifically the figure of 'the mid... Read More about Post-feminist advertising laid bare: Young women's talk about the sexually agentic woman of 'midriff' advertising.

Appearance concerns in ophthalmic patients (2011)
Journal Article

Aims This study Aim ed to determine the psychosocial and appearance-related concerns of a sample of ophthalmic patients by measuring a range of psychological, social, and demographic factors. Methods Standardized psychological measures including anxi... Read More about Appearance concerns in ophthalmic patients.

Un/imaginable future selves: A discourse analysis of in-patients' talk about recovery from an 'eating disorder' (2011)
Journal Article

Background: The limited efficacy of treatments for eating disorders has been well documented. Yet few studies have explored patients' views about recovery or how culturally dominant ideas might be implicated in recovery or failure to recover. Aims Th... Read More about Un/imaginable future selves: A discourse analysis of in-patients' talk about recovery from an 'eating disorder'.

“You can’t be supersized?” – Exploring femininities, body size and control within the obesity terrain (2010)
Book Chapter

Are contemporary media images which seem to display women as sexually empowered actually harmful to women? (2010)
Journal Article

There has been a shift in the depiction of women in advertising from objectifying representations of women as passive sex objects to agentic sexual representations where the women appear powerful and in control (Gill, 2007a, 2008), and there is subst... Read More about Are contemporary media images which seem to display women as sexually empowered actually harmful to women?.

I. 'I don't think that's normal': A reflection on accounts of experiences of treatment for eating disorders (2008)
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Exploring the politics of women's in/visible 'large' bodies (2008)
Journal Article

General intellectual capacity of young men with cleft lip with or without cleft palate and cleft palate alone (2008)
Journal Article

We report on the general intellectual capacity of men around 17-19 years of age and with cleft lip either with or without cleft palate (CLP) or cleft palate alone. Data were obtained from the Swedish National Service enrolment register for the years... Read More about General intellectual capacity of young men with cleft lip with or without cleft palate and cleft palate alone.