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Coroners’ records for Action on Road Safety (CARS) in Wiltshire (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Pilkington, P., Bird, E., Gray, S., Towner, E., Weld, S., & McKibben, M. (2012, June). Coroners’ records for Action on Road Safety (CARS) in Wiltshire. Poster presented at Changing Lives, Changing Society, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

"Happy Being Me" in Britain: The evaluation of a school-based disordered eating and negative body image intervention with pre-adolescent girls and boys (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Diedrichs, P. C., Bird, E., & Halliwell, E. (2012, May). "Happy Being Me" in Britain: The evaluation of a school-based disordered eating and negative body image intervention with pre-adolescent girls and boys. Paper presented at International Conference on Eating Disorders, Austin, Texas, USA

There is emerging evidence that disordered eating and negative body image can affect pre-adolescent girls and boys. As a result, researchers and clinicians have called for an increased focus on early intervention and prevention. Further, the British... Read More about "Happy Being Me" in Britain: The evaluation of a school-based disordered eating and negative body image intervention with pre-adolescent girls and boys.

A systematic review of behaviour change techniques in walking and cycling interventions: the iConnect study (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Bird, E., Baker, G., Powell, J., & Mutrie, N. (2012, February). A systematic review of behaviour change techniques in walking and cycling interventions: the iConnect study. Paper presented at South West Public Health Scientific Conference, Weston-super-Mare

Background iConnect, funded by EPSRC, is an interdisciplinary research programme, aiming to measure and evaluate changes in travel, physical activity and carbon emissions associated with the Sustrans’ Connect2 programme. Until recently, the categori... Read More about A systematic review of behaviour change techniques in walking and cycling interventions: the iConnect study.

‘Happy Being Me’ in the UK: A controlled evaluation of a school-based body image intervention with pre-adolescent children (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Bird, E., Halliwell, E., & Diedrichs, P. C. (2012, February). ‘Happy Being Me’ in the UK: A controlled evaluation of a school-based body image intervention with pre-adolescent children. Paper presented at South West Public Health Scientific Conference, Weston-super-Mare, UK

Background Body image concerns among children are commonly associated with the onset of severe health-related implications including reduced physical activity, unhealthy eating behaviours, and low self-esteem, among others. Historically, attempts to... Read More about ‘Happy Being Me’ in the UK: A controlled evaluation of a school-based body image intervention with pre-adolescent children.