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First author only listed. For full list, please see conference programme.
| Day 1 | |
| 8:45-9:15 | Registration and Refreshments |
| 9:15-9:30 | Welcome |
| 9:30-10:30 | Keynote Speaker |
| Ms Lucy Aphramor Well Now, UK Preventing fat stigma and repairing harm: A practical, pragmatic, radical response for advancing weight justice through public health policy and everyday conversation |
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| 10:30-10:50 | Coffee Break |
| 10:50-11:50 | Symposium: Weight Stigma and Public Health and Public Policy |
| Applying Critical Systems Heuristics and the Red Lotus Health Promotion Model to critique weight-related public health initiatives and their contribution to weight stigma Dr Lily O’Hara, Abu Dhabi University, UAE |
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| Reflecting on policy solutions to weight-centered public health Dr Caitlin O’Reilly, University of British Columbia, Canada |
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| Exploring portrayals of ‘childhood obesity’: Weight stigma in policy, news media, and public perceptions Beccy Smith, Leeds Beckett University, UK |
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| The social implications of weight bias internalisation: Parents’ ‘ultimate responsibility’ as consent, division and resistance Dr Sharon Noonan-Gurning, City, University of London, UK |
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| Foregrounding the viscerality of food and fat: Towards an affective political ecological approach in public health Dr Karin Eli, University of Oxford, UK |
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| 11:50-12:10 | Symposium: Issues in Weight Stigma Research |
| New options for quantification: Introducing the Fat Attitudes Assessment Toolkit Trish Cain, Murdoch University, Australia |
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| Is there a better way to measure internalised weight stigma: Confirmatory factor analysis of the 19-item Weight Bias Internalization Scale Dr Angela Meadows, University of Birmingham, UK |
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| 12:10-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:30 | Keynote Speaker |
| Professor Rhiannon Turner Queens University Belfast, UK Applying social psychological interventions to tackle weight stigma |
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| 14:30-15:30 | Symposium: Weight Discrimination Legislation: An International Comparison |
| Introduction Dr Stuart Flint, Leeds Beckett University, UK |
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| UK legislation Dr Jeremé Snook, Sheffield Hallam University, UK |
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| EU legislation Dr Jessica Guth, Leeds Beckett University, UK |
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| US legislation Sondra Solovay Esq, Discrimination and Diversity Expert, USA |
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| Co-ordinated action Dr Stuart Flint, Leeds Beckett University, UK |
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| 15:30-16:30 | Posters and Refreshments |
| 16:30-17:30 | Parallel Sessions |
| WORKSHOP: Weight discrimination legislation: Pathways to action Dr Stuart Flint, Leeds Beckett University, UK |
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| WORKSHOP: Weight stigma in critical psychology: The praxis of challenging healthism Lauren Munro, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada |
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| 17:30-19:00 | Cheese and Wine Reception |
| Day 2 | |
| 8:30-9:00 | Refreshments |
| 9:00-10:00 | Keynote Speaker |
| Dr Emma Rich University of Bath, UK Public health policy, young people and weight stigma: Key considerations and future directions |
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| 10:00-10:45 | Symposium: Weight Stigma Interventions |
| Weight bias: Investigating the impact of an empathy-evoking intervention in reducing mental health professionals’ anti-fat attitudes Tarynne Quirk, City, University of London, UK |
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| Narrative medicine as a novel weight stigma reduction method in medical education Rachel Fox, University of California San Diego, USA |
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| Decreasing weight bias of pre-service health professionals Thea Werkhoven, University of Sydney, Australia |
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| Decolonizing fat: Fat liberation media as potential intervention bias Rosalind Major, Davidson College, USA |
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| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Symposium: Weight Stigma in Culture and the Media |
| Are the people tweeting about exercise also tweeting about fat? A descriptive study of twitter communities Ahuitz Rojas-Sánchez, Université Grenoble-Alpes, France |
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| The metaphorical construction of weight in the media Tara Coltman-Patel, Nottingham Trent University, UK |
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| The representation of weight, bodies and health in Sport England’s This Girl Can – a multimethod case study Maddie Sweetman, Leeds Beckett University, UK |
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| “Don’t look at the package. Look at what’s inside: Anti-fat bias in David Levithan’s Every Day” Judith Schreier, Institute for American Studies, Leipzig, Germany |
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| When fat meets disability in poverty porn: exploring the cultural mechanisms of suspicion in Too Fat to Work Professor Jayne Raisborough, Leeds Beckett University, UK |
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| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:00 | Parallel Sessions |
| WORKSHOP: Waking up to the reality of weight stigma in safe spaces Dr Rachel Porter, Carolina House Eating Disorders Treatment Center, USA |
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| SYMPOSIUM: Stigma and Weight Loss Surgery Chair: Trish Cain, Murdoch University, Australia
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| 14:00-14:30 | Symposium: Weight Stigma in Healthcare |
| (Mis)Information and stigma: Challenges for higher-weight women during family planning and pregnancy Kara Fransisco, University of Florida, USA |
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| “Don´t bother visiting the doctor if it´s anything from the waist down!”: Fat women’s experiences in medical settings in Spain Nina Navajas-Pertegás, Universitat de València, Spain |
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| Uncovering weight bias in therapists’ responses to risk for clients with Eating Disorders Kel O’Neill, University of East London, UK |
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| Knowledge brokering: (mis)Aligning population knowledge with care of fat bodies in clinical settings Dr Patricia Thille, University of Toronto/Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Canada |
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| 14:30-15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:00-15:45 | Symposium: Weight Stigma, Health and Wellbeing |
| Engaging with dieting: Weight stigma and weight-loss tropes Dr Sophie Smailes, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK |
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| Social identity threat and the implications of weight stigma on healthcare avoidance Dr Janell Mensinger, Drexel University, USA |
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| Inhospitable chairs: Everyday insults that negatively impact higher-weight individuals Janet K Keeler, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, USA |
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| Does weight stigma hurt? Exploring the overlap between social and physical pain Dr KayLoni Olson, Brown University, USA |
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| 15:45-16:00 | Close and Prizes |
