12th Annual Weight Stigma Conference

Announcements

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Early-Bird Rates Expire in Two Weeks

Register for the 2024 Weight Stigma Conference today!

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Due to a technical issue, tickets will now be available through TicketTailor. Please click on the button to go to the Registration page. We apologise for any inconvenience.

The last day for early-bird rates will be 16th May.

Ticket Types

  • Online
    • Standard registration: Early bird rate (until 16th May, 2024) is £100. From 17th May, standard rate will be £120.
    • Student/low income: Early bird rate (until 16th May, 2024) is £80. From 17th May, student/low income rate will be £100.
  • In-person
    • Standard registration: Early bird rate (until 16th May, 2024) is £175. From 17th May, standard rate will be £200.
    • Student/low income: Early bird rate (until 16th May, 2024) is £150. From 17th May, student/low income rate will be £170.

As a reminder, and across all rates, further reductions or hardship requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please use the Bursary Application form on our website and/or email us at stigmaconf@gmail.com. Standard bursary applications will be accepted until noon, the day before the conference, with awards depending on availability of funding. A single Dr Cat Pausé Travel Bursary will be awarded. The deadline for applications is 16th May 2024. Application is via the same form.

Meet the 2024 WSC Keynotes!

Dr Lily O’Hara, Associate Professor of Public Health, Qatar University. Her research focuses on analyzing oppressive public health approaches to body weight and their inequitable impact on people with larger bodies, and developing ethical, evidence-based, salutogenic public health initiatives for body liberation using social justice oriented approaches.

Caleb Luna is an award-winning educator and scholar, the bestselling author of REVENGE BODY , and co-host of the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back. Caleb’s cultural work examines race, size, sexuality and disability in media and culture. Ultimately, they are interested in engaging embodied difference as a generative resource toward fatter understandings of collective freedom.

Stacy Bias is a social justice activist, artist and writer with over 20 years’ experience. Working with academics, researchers, charities, NGOs and other mission-based organisations, she combines research with illustration and animation to create humanising narratives that amplify marginalised voices. Her projects ask questions about social legitimacy, barriers to access and the psychic and material impacts of exclusion.

To learn more about our keynotes, visit https://weightstigmaconference.com/keynotes-2024/

Information for In-Person Delegates

Please visit our website for more information about the venue, location, accommodation, and travel: https://weightstigmaconference.com/wsc-2024-information/

Poster abstracts still open for submission

If you would like to present a poster, please submit your abstract using the form on our website: https://weightstigmaconference.com/abstract-submission/. Deadlines for submission is 9th June, 2024. Poster decisions will be made on a rolling basis, within a few days of your submission.

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Call for Papers: Bodies, Arts, and Media: (Re)Configurations in the Digital Era

December 5-6, 2024, Paris, France

Submission deadline: 1st June

The IRMÉCCEN (Sorbonne Nouvelle University) and LabSIC (Sorbonne Paris Nord University) laboratories,research committees 14 (Sociology of Communication, Knowledge, and Culture), 37 (Sociology of the Arts), and 54 (The Body in Social Sciences) of the International Sociological Association (ISA), as well as researchcommittees 38 (Socioanthropologie Politique: Médias et Cultures) and 33 (Sociologie de la Communication et duNumérique) of the Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française (AISLF), the Cité du Genre, and the Groupe de Travail “Genre et Espace Numérique” of the Centre Internet et Société (CNRS), are jointly organizing the bilingual (French and English) international conference entitled “Bodies, Arts, andMedia: (Re)Configurations in the Digital Era”.

From an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective, this conference aims to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines such as sociology, information and communication sciences, gender studies, cultural studies, anthropology, history, computational sciences, political science, and others. It seeks to explore reflections on bodies in the arts and media in the digital age. We strongly encourage research that adopts an intersectional perspective and intersects various social relations of oppression (e.g., gender, sexuality, class, race, ableism, ageism). Papers may focus on (but are not limited to) the following themes:

  • Representations and discourses
  • Reception/uses
  • Platform design and the co-construction dynamics of bodily norms
  • Performance in the digital age
  • Epistemology, methods, and ethics

Submission guidelines:

Paper proposals should not exceed 500 words (excluding bibliography) and should be submitted in English or French by June 1st, 2024 to bodiesartsandmedia@gmail.com

Responses to paper proposals will be sent by e-mail on July 1st, 2024

For more information and to apply, Download the full Call for Papers

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Registration is open for the 10th Annual International Weight Stigma Conference, being held 16-17th June, 2024 in Colchester, UK and online.

Ticket Types

  • Online
    • Standard registration: Early bird rate (until 16th May, 2024) is £100. From 17th May, standard rate will be £120.
    • Student/low income: Early bird rate (until 16th May, 2024) is £80. From 17th May, student/low income rate will be £100.
  • In-person
    • Standard registration: Early bird rate (until 16th May, 2024) is £175. From 17th May, standard rate will be £200.
    • Student/low income: Early bird rate (until 16th May, 2024) is £150. From 17th May, student/low income rate will be £170.

Bursaries

As a reminder, and across all rates, further reductions or hardship requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please use the Bursary Application form on our website and/or email us at stigmaconf@gmail.com. Standard bursary applications will be accepted until noon, the day before the conference, with awards depending on availability of funding. A single Dr Cat Pausé Travel Bursary will be awarded. The deadline for applications is 16th May 2024. Application is via the same form.

Bursary Fund – Supporting Accessibility

The Weight Stigma Conference is a not-for-profit event. The conference is funded by registration fees and a small number of sponsors whose support has made this event possible. Although we try and keep prices down, we realise that the conference will nevertheless be beyond some people’s means. Rather than raising the cost of tickets, we make every effort to raise additional funding through donations and sponsorship to allow us to give bursaries to individuals who otherwise wouldn’t be able to attend. Since 2016, we have been crowdsourcing the conference Bursary Fund, and your generosity has allowed us to provide 65 bursaries and 6 travel awards so far.

Donations can be made through our Go Fund Me page – please share this page with your networks. Thank you so much for your generosity.

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Weight Stigma Conference keynotes announced

April 6, 2024 9:00 am

We are delighted to announce the keynotes for the 10th Annual International Weight Stigma Conference, to be held 16-17th June, 2024 in Colchester, UK and online.

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Dr Lily O’Hara

Dr Lily O’Hara is an Associate Professor of Public Health at Qatar University. Her research focuses on analyzing oppressive public health approaches to body weight and their inequitable impact on people with larger bodies, and developing ethical, evidence-based, salutogenic public health initiatives for body liberation using social justice oriented approaches. Lily has over 25 years’ experience as a public health and health promotion academic and practitioner in Australia, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar and has worked on community, workplace, university, and school-based programs addressing a broad range of health and wellbeing issues.

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Dr Caleb Luna

Caleb Luna is an artist, public scholar and theorist of the body. They are an award-winning educator and scholar, the bestselling author of REVENGE BODY (Nomadic Press, 2022; Black Lawrence Press, 2023), and co-host of the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back. Publishing, performing and curating across genre and medium, Caleb’s cultural work examines race, size, sexuality and disability in media and culture. Ultimately, they are interested in engaging embodied difference as a generative resource toward fatter understandings of collective freedom. They are currently an Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

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Stacy Bias

Stacy Bias is a social justice activist, artist and writer with over 20 years’ experience. Working with academics, researchers, charities, NGOs and other mission-based organisations, she loves combining research with illustration and animation to create humanising narratives that amplify marginalised voices. In 2016, Stacy released the research-led Flying While Fat documentary animation, which highlights the challenges that fat people face when traveling by air. She also works frequently with academics in Health Communications, co-creating sensitive and effective educational resources for both practitioners and the communities they serve. Her practice is collaborative and guided by the principles of intersectional feminism. Stacy’s favourite projects target empathy and the places where it’s absent, asking questions about social legitimacy, barriers to access (both physically and socially) and the psychic and material impacts of exclusion.

For more about our keynotes and their work, please visit our website.

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The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Internationalization Committee is now accepting applications for a new grant opportunity specifically designed for Researchers in the Global South (the RGS Grants Program), modeled after the SPSSI Grants-in-Aid Program.  We wish to support scientific research on social issues in the Global South and Majority World settings (e.g., Africa, Latin America, Asia, and southern and eastern Europe). The Committee welcomes proposals involving (a) unique and timely research opportunities, (b) underrepresented institutions, graduate students, and junior scholars, (c) volunteer research teams, and (d) actual, not pilot, projects. Funds may be used for various research activities, but are not available for the indirect costs of institutions. Up to $2000 in funding is available to SPSSI members who already have a PhD and up to $1000 for pre-doctoral work. 

More information: SPSSI Researchers in the Global South Grants page. 

Deadline:  May 1, 2024. 

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FYI. Collective Action Network research meeting (short deadline)

March 5, 2024 4:39 pm

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Understanding the multifaceted and applied nature of collective action research

Deadline: 8th March

Collective action is increasingly a central feature of our ever-changing society. In 2023 alone, we have seen strike action in response to the cost-of-living crisis, the boycotting of Russia after the Ukraine invasion, and widespread protests against Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.

The uptake in collective action within society is reflected in this growing area of research. As such, we are holding this meeting to bring together collective action researchers to build connections and showcase the research on this timely and important topic.

Moreover, we want to use this meeting as a platform to elucidate the multifaceted and applied nature of collective action research. We are therefore particularly keen to bring together and encourage scholars who use diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to study this topic across different contexts and for a range of issues to attend. We will also invite practitioners to share their unique perspectives on collective action including their experiences, needs and the intersection between their work and our academic research.

This meeting is being organised by Helena Radke (JCU), Maja Kutlaca (Durham University), and Özden Melis Uluğ (University of Sussex) from the Collective Action Network (CAN). The conference will be held from the 29th to 31st of August 2024 at Durham University, UK. This meeting is being sponsored by the European Association of Social Psychology, the British Psychological Society – Social Psychology Section, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

Attendance at this conference is free of charge, and some funding will be available to cover the travel costs of early career researchers and scholars from diverse backgrounds as well as low- income countries (who are strongly encouraged to apply) to attend and present. We will also facilitate online participation if attending and presenting in-person is not possible.

To apply for this conference, submit an abstract (250 words max) by the 8th of March, 2024 via this form: https://forms.gle/ZGYJTQqnxpQGgKhB9 For more information, please contact the organizers (networkcollectiveaction@gmail.com)

Last week to submit oral/session abstracts for WSC 2024

February 18, 2024 8:25 pm

Don’t forget to submit your abstracts for oral presentations and conference sessions to this year’s Weight Stigma Conference, 16-17 June, 2024, in Colchester, Essex, UK and online, before the deadline on 23rd February. Poster abstract submission remains open on a rolling approval basis.

Visit https://weightstigmaconference.com/ for more information.

FYI. Appearance Matters 10 conference early-bird deadline

February 4, 2024 11:56 pm

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The Weight Stigma Conference is not the only one celebrating its 10th anniversary this year! The Centre for Appearance Research at University of the West of England once again invites you to Appearance Matters – a fantastic interdisciplinary conference highlighting research, theory, and good practice around all appearance-related issues, being held from 11-13 June, 2024 – right before the WSC, at the iconic City Hall in Bristol, UK. It always has an amazing line-up of speakers and workshops. Submissions for oral abstracts are closed, but they are accepting poster abstracts until 1st March. Early-bird registration deadline is this week, Weds 7th February.

Please visit the conference website for further information

FYI. Survey on weight stigma research focus

January 30, 2024 12:23 pm

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We are a team of researchers from Australia and the UK. We are seeking adults with expertise in weight stigma (including clinicians, researchers, lived experience, etc.) to participate in a survey about the most important directions for future research. The survey should take no more than 5 minutes. If you are interested in taking part, please click on the anonymous survey link, or scan the QR code below. Thank you.

QR code for EMA survey

Abstract submission open for WSC 2024

January 8, 2024 8:54 am

10th Annual International Weight Stigma Conference, 16-17 June 2024, Colchester, UK and online*

We are now accepting abstracts for oral presentations and posters, as well as session proposals including brief symposia, round tables, debates, and workshops. We are also interested in non-traditional submissions (e.g., media, performance, art).

*Since 2023, the WSC has been fully hybrid, allowing in person and remote attendance and presentation.

The two-day interdisciplinary programme will cover the entire weight stigma research spectrum – from basic, to applied, to clinical, to policy – and feature an outstanding roster of international speakers and local experts.

We invite contributions across a wide range of disciplines and methodological and theoretical approaches. International voices discussing the situation in countries other than the US are particularly welcome. Equally so are intersectional approaches and perspectives from other marginalised groups. Students are especially encouraged to submit proposals.

For more information about the conference and to submit an abstract, please visit: http://weightstigmaconference.com/.

Submission deadlines: Session proposals and oral presentations 23rd February, 2024.

Posters submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis with no deadline.

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