Appearance Matters: The Podcast!

This month, Bruna and Jade discuss the topic of facial palsy. The episode features several guests - Charles Nduka (founder of the charity Facial Palsy UK (FPUK) and plastic and reconstructive surgeon), Karen Johnson (deputy CEO of FP UK), Elizabeth Robinson (patient advocate from Australia), Matthew Hotton (Clinical Psychologist), Claire Hamlet (Health Psychologist), and Kathleen Bogart (Associate Professor at Oregon State University) – all coming together to provide important insights into this topic. We hope you'll enjoy listening to this episode! To find out more about the Centre for Appearance Research, follow us on: • Twitter: twitter.com/CAR_UWE • Instagram: www.instagram.com/car_uwe/ • Facebook: www.facebook.com/AppearanceResearch To find out more about the work of FPUK, visit: https://www.facialpalsy.org.uk/ To read the guidelines developed for mental health professionals about how to work alongside physical health practitioners to assess and meet the psychological needs of people with facial

Ramadan - one of the five pillars of Islam - is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and is characterised by a month of fasting, prayer, reflection, and community. The fasting (and feasting) can be triggering for people struggling with disordered eating and eating disorders for obvious reasons. In contrast, the focus on spirituality and community can be healing. CAR's Farheen Hasan and eating disorder advocate and founder of Islam and Eating Disorders Maha Khan tell us more.

Tune in to hear to Appearance Matters 9 Conference Panel Discussion: ‘is a body confident society possible amidst the ‘ob*sity epidemic’? With esteemed panellists: Stuart Flint - Associate Professor of the Psychology of Obesity at the University of Leeds and Director of the charity Obesity UK. https://medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/psychology/staff/4782/dr-stuart-w-flint Sarah Le Brocq - public speaker and strategic council member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on obesity. https://slebrocq.com Marquisele Mercedes - fat liberationist writer, creator, and Presidential Fellow at the Brown University School of Public Health https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/about Nia Patterson - eating disorder recovery and mental health advocate. https://www.instagram.com/thefriendineverwanted/ Esther Rothblum - Professor and Chair of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. https://womensstudies.sdsu.edu/people/rothblum Moderator: Caryn Franklin – fashion commentator and former editor. https://franklinonfashion.com/

This month, Bruna and Nadia discuss the issue of medical tattooing. Guests Nicola Stock (Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Appearance Research), Amy Johnson (Operations Manager from the charity Alopecia UK), and Rae Denman (a medical tattooist), all come together to provide various perspectives on the matter. To find out more about the Centre for Appearance Research, follow us:  On Twitter: twitter.com/CAR_UWE  On Instagram: www.instagram.com/car_uwe/  On Facebook: www.facebook.com/AppearanceResearch  To find out more about Rae and her medical tattooing work: makeup@raedenman.co.uk www.raedenman.co.uk To find out more about the work of Alopecia UK: www.alopecia.org.uk Information from Alopecia UK about medical tattooing: https://www.alopecia.org.uk/permanent-make-up To read the (freely-available) published research article that was discussed during the episode: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13548506.2021.1883688?scroll=top&needAccess=true You can also read a blog p

What legal and non-legal changes can we introduce to protect people with a visible difference(i.e., any condition or injury which alters appearance) from discrimination in society? Nadia speaks with Dr Hannah Saunders, Director of Studies in Law at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge about her work on appearance equality and the law and then we get an exclusive from Jade on the resource she's created for primary school teachers to help promote acceptance of appearance diversity. Link to the Law Centre's Network website where you can search to find a law centre near you for independent legal advice on any possible equality issues relating to visible difference (including issues related to perceived visible difference or by association with someone else): www.lawcentres.org.uk Jade's free resource for schools: https://faceequalityinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Teachers-Support-Guide-FINAL-all-portrait.pdf Jade’s PhD Topic Episode: https://soundcloud.com/appearance-matters/51-back-to-school-pr

The experience of parenting a child with a visible difference is complex and so, with the help of Tina Rycroft (Mother of a child with Microtia) and Maia Thornton (PhD researcher at CAR), Jade and Bruna unpack this topic area. Find out more about the parent support materials being developed at CAR: https://bit.ly/2RM3oDC Resources on Microtia UK website: http://www.microtiauk.org/information/ To find out more about the Centre for Appearance Research, follow us: • On Twitter: twitter.com/CAR_UWE • On Instagram: www.instagram.com/car_uwe/ • On Facebook: www.facebook.com/AppearanceResearch Music by Sian Evans & John Landau: toplinefilm.com Cover photo provided by Tina Rycroft Episode developed & produced by Jade Parnell

This month, Bruna and Jade discuss the expansion of support for adults with a cleft lip and/or palate. Guests Nicola Stock (Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Appearance Research) and Kenny Ardouin (Adult Services Manager at the Cleft Lip and Palate Association (CLAPA)), share their important recent research and work in this area. To find out more about the Centre for Appearance Research, follow us: • On Twitter: twitter.com/CAR_UWE • On Instagram: www.instagram.com/car_uwe/ • On Facebook: www.facebook.com/AppearanceResearch To find out more about the work of CLAPA, visit: • CLAPA’s website: https://www.clapa.com/ • CLAPA’s Adult Voices Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CLAPAAdults/ • CLAPA’s Cleft Talk podcast: https://soundcloud.com/clefttalk To find out more about Cleft Lip and Palate Awareness Week 2021 (8-16 May), please visit: https://www.clapa.com/awareness-week/ Please share, subscribe, rate and review. It really does mean a lot. Thank you! B & J :) Music by Sian Evans & J

Lockdown has been particularly challenging for people living with eating disorders. Nadia and Jade find out why with eating disorder expert, Helen West RD before hearing more about people's experiences of eating disorder recovery with CAR's Gina Pegram and Leah Newton - an eating disorder campaigner. For more on Helen: https://embodiedeating.co.uk For more on Leah: https://workedout.co.uk Eating Disorder Resources: https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk https://butterfly.org.au https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org Let us know what you think : https://twitter.com/car_UWE    To find out more about CAR: www.uwe.ac.uk/car    If you found this episode useful, please rate us on Apple Podcasts – it really DOES help.    Thanks, N & J x Cute photos of kittens by The Lucky Neko via Unsplash

Nearly a year since the first lockdown, Jade and Bruna discuss the experiences of those with a visible difference during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. Guests Diana Harcourt, Pippa Tollow and Ella Guest from CAR, as well as Catherine Deakin from Changing Faces share important recent research on this topic. The work described by members of CAR was supported and funded by the Vocational Training Charitable Trust (VTCT) Foundation. http://www.vtctfoundation.org.uk Changing Faces sources of support link: https://www.changingfaces.org.uk/adviceandsupport To find out more about the Centre for Appearance Research, follow us: On Twitter: twitter.com/CAR_UWE On Instagram: www.instagram.com/car_uwe/ On Facebook: www.facebook.com/AppearanceResearch Please share, subscribe, rate and review. It really does mean a lot. Thank you! J & B x Music by Sian Evans & John Landau: toplinefilm.com Cover photo by Ivan Samkov from Pexels Episode developed & produced by Jade Parnell

Nadia and Jade speak with Dr Issy Bray (​Associate Head of Department for Research and Knowledge Exchange - Department of Health and Social Sciences, UWE Bristol) and Dr Helena Lewis-Smith (Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Appearance Research, UWE Bristol) about body image from a public health perspective. Papers discussed by Issy, Helena, Amy and Anna Bornioli, A., Lewis-Smith, H., Smith, A., Slater, A., & Bray, I. (2019). Adolescent body dissatisfaction and disordered eating: Predictors of later risky health behaviours. Social Science & Medicine, 238, 112458. Bornioli, A., Lewis-Smith, H., Slater, A., & Bray, I. (2020). Body dissatisfaction predicts the onset of depression among adolescent females and males: a prospective study. J Epidemiol Community Health. Lewis-Smith, H., Bray, I., Salmon, D., & Slater, A. (2020). Prospective Pathways to Depressive Symptoms and Disordered Eating in Adolescence: A 7-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49(10), 2060-2074. Discussion

In the last episode of 2020, Nadia and Jade learn more about body image in India from CAR colleagues: Dr Helena Lewis-Smith, Kirsty Garbett, and Farheen Hasan as well as from project collaborators Dr Hemal Shroff, Dr Megha Dhillon, Manavi Khurana, Ruchika Kanwal and Megha Saklani. (Discussion starts at 11.45) Some of the new papers referenced in this episode: Diedrichs, P. C., Atkinson, M. J., Garbett, K. M., & Leckie, G. (2020). Evaluating the “Dove Confident Me” Five-Session Body Image Intervention Delivered by Teachers in Schools: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Effectiveness Trial. Journal of Adolescent Health. Lewis-Smith, H., Garbett, K. M., Chaudhry, A., Uglik-Marucha, N., Vitoratou, S., Dhillon, M., ... & Diedrichs, P. C. (2020). Adaptation and validation of the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire in English among urban Indian adolescents. The International Journal of Eating Disorders. For more on the Karma Centre for Counselling & Wellbeing: https://www.karmacare.in To find out more about

In this episode, Nadia and Jade discuss the topic of face transplants. With the help of guest’s emeritus Professor Nicky Rumsey OBE, Dr Alex Clarke and historian Dr Fay Bound Alberti, this episode will explore both the history and debated ethical dilemmas of facial transplantation.   Also, it's our 5th Birthday!! We can't celebrate in person, but as a birthday gift we would love it if our lovely listeners would... please rate us on Apple Podcasts – it really DOES help.  Link to the Being Human Festival https://beinghumanfestival.org Let us know what you think  https://twitter.com/car_UWE    To find out more about CAR:  www.uwe.ac.uk/car Episode developed & produced by Jade Parnell

Nadia and Jade talk to Dr Emily Matheson and Harriet Smith about fostering positive body image through children’s media. Specifically, we hear more about the research evaluating Steven Universe x Dove Self-Esteem Project cartoon 'shorts' and e-book. The Steven Universe e-book and animations are free and available here: http://www.stevenuniverseselfesteem.co.uk/ Thanks to Rebecca Sugar and Cartoon Network for permission to share the clips! Connect with us at the Centre for Appearance Research on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/car_UWE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/car_uwe/ Website: www.uwe.ac.uk/car If you found this episode useful, please rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Thanks!

It’s that time of year where children are headed back to school (albeit a bit different than usual) and while schools are preparing for another year of learning, what can we learn from how to help young children with accepting their own and other people’s appearances? What do we already know? Jade and Nadia explore the topic of how to promote acceptance of appearance in young school-age children with the help of Emily (starting at 9:37), a Primary School teacher. Let us know what you think https://twitter.com/car_UWE To find out more about CAR: www.uwe.ac.uk/car If you found this episode useful, please rate us on Apple Podcasts – it really DOES help. Episode developed & produced by Jade Parnell

Nadia and Jade hear from military veteran Sergeant Simon Harmer and members of the UNITS study team at CAR to learn more about the need for support for military personnel affected by appearance altering injuries. Let us know what you think https://twitter.com/car_UWE To find out more about CAR: www.uwe.ac.uk/car For more on Simon Harmer: http://www.blown-away.org To keep up to date with the Units Research Team: https://twitter.com/unitsstudy https://www.instagram.com/unitsstudy/ To take part in the UNITS study: If you had an injury that caused scars (of any size and location) or limb loss AND have never served in the Armed Forces, you are invited to complete an online questionnaire here: go.uwe.ac.uk/unitscivilian Participants can enter a prize draw for up to £100 in Amazon vouchers. Veterans with combat-related injuries can take part here: go.uwe.ac.uk/unitsveteran

Members of the team at the Centre for Appearance Research share tips and strategies to manage with additional anxiety related to body image, food and eating, and productivity during lockdown. Links from the team: https://www.mindfulness-network.org/free-online-practice-sessions/ https://oxfordmindfulness.org/online-sessions-podcasts/ https://self-compassion.org https://www.headspace.com/covid-19 https://blog.calm.com/take-a-deep-breath https://beckinstitute.org/get-informed/what-is-cognitive-therapy/ www.copingwithcoronavirus.co.uk App: Insight Timer Lancet Paper: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30460-8/fulltext Let us know what you think https://twitter.com/car_UWE To find out more about CAR: www.uwe.ac.uk/car Remember: if you found this episode useful, please rate us on Apple Podcasts – thank you!

Jade and Nadia speak with guests Dr Hannah Frith and Laura Dodsworth about how photography can be used as a powerful tool in appearance research and beyond - to promote acceptance of visible differences. SCARS short film - a Tigerlily production for @TheGuardian, directed by Laura Dodsworth and Rebecca Lloyd Evans. Link here: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2020/apr/27/scars-how-our-wounds-make-us-who-we-are-video Link to Laura's website: https://www.lauradodsworth.com/ Let us know what you think https://twitter.com/car_UWE To find out more about CAR: www.uwe.ac.uk/car Cover image by: Laura Dodsworth

Tying in with London Fashion Week 2020, Nadia and Jade talk about diversity in fashion with Caryn Franklin MBE (starting at 11.15) and hear about policy change in Argentina to increase the number of clothing sizes available in store with Sharon Haywood (starting at 1.08.20). Let us know what you think: https://twitter.com/car_UWE To find out more about CAR: www.uwe.ac.uk/car For more on our guests: Caryn: https://franklinonfashion.com Sharon: https://sharonhaywood.com Cover Image: Photo by Brunel Johnson on Unsplash

Nadia and Jade are joined by Dr Oli Williams to discuss the topic of weight stigma (again!) but this time through a more social lens. Interview with Oli [begins at 2.30] Act With Love website: http://www.actwithlove.co.uk/ Online version of the comic 'Weight of Expectation': http://www.actwithlove.co.uk/woe-digital-comic.html Paper on the topic co-authored by Oli: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00953/full Blog on 'Who are you calling diseased?' https://www.cost-ofliving.net/who-are-you-calling-diseased/ People/accounts referenced in the episode: Fiona Quigley, Twitter: @FionaQuigs Samantha Murry (The 'Fat' Female Body) Roxane Gay, Twitter: @rgay, Instagram: @roxanegay74 Your Fat Friend, Twitter & Instagram: @yrfatfriend Cover image: by @handsomegirldesigns

Nadia and Jade are joined by Dr Rebecca Swift - Global Head of Creative Insights at Getty Images, Hannah Burns Global Marketing Manager for Unilever Personal Care brand Dove, and Phillippa Diedrichs, Professor in Psychology at the Centre for Appearance Research. Interview with Hannah & Phillippa [16.00-46.00] Interview with Rebecca [50.00 -1.12.00] Let us know what you think https://twitter.com/car_UWE To find out more about CAR: www.uwe.ac.uk/car For more on Project Show Us: https://www.dove.com/uk/stories/campaigns/showus.html For a copy of Nadia's PhD (lol) email her: nadia.craddock@uwe.ac.uk Interview with Rebecca: https://www.creativebrief.com/bite/dr-rebecca-swift-global-head-creative-insights-getty-images Cover Image: Model: Sophia Hood by Peyton Fulford for Girl Gaze, Project Show Us