6th Annual International Weight Stigma Conference, Leeds, 2018
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Prize winnersBest oral presentation: Patricia Thille, University of Toronto/Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Canada
Best poster presentation: Beatriz Klimeck Gouvêa Gama, Rio de Janeiro State University, BrazilSponsorsThank you to all of the sponsors of the 2018 Weight Stigma Conference. The event wouldn’t have been possible without them, so please give them your support.
| Brochure | WSC 2018 CONFERENCE BROCHURE AND ABSTRACTS |
| Keynotes | |
| Slides | 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 |
| Slides | Professor Rhiannon Turner Queens University Belfast, UK Applying social psychological interventions to tackle weight stigma |
| Slides | Dr Emma Rich University of Bath, UK Public health policy, young people and weight stigma: Key considerations and future directions |
| Symposium: Weight Stigma and Public Health and Public Policy | |
| Slides | 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 |
| N/A | Reflecting on policy solutions to weight-centered public health Dr Caitlin O’Reilly, University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Slides | Exploring portrayals of ‘childhood obesity’: Weight stigma in policy, news media, and public perceptions Beccy Smith, Leeds Beckett University, UK |
| Slides | The social implications of weight bias internalisation: Parents’ ‘ultimate responsibility’ as consent, division and resistance Dr Sharon Noonan-Gurning, City, University of London, UK |
| Paper | Foregrounding the viscerality of food and fat: Towards an affective political ecological approach in public health Dr Karin Eli, University of Oxford, UK |
| Symposium: Issues in Weight Stigma Research | |
| Slides | New options for quantification: Introducing the Fat Attitudes Assessment Toolkit Trish Cain, Murdoch University, Australia |
| Slides | 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 |
| Symposium: Weight Discrimination Legislation: An International Comparison | |
| UK legislation Dr Jeremé Snook, Sheffield Hallam University, UK |
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| Blog | EU legislation Dr Jessica Guth, Leeds Beckett University, UK |
| N/A | US legislation Sondra Solovay Esq, Discrimination and Diversity Expert, USA |
| Symposium: Weight Stigma Interventions | |
| Slides | 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 |
| Slides | Narrative medicine as a novel weight stigma reduction method in medical education Rachel Fox, University of California San Diego, USA |
| Slides | Decreasing weight bias of pre-service health professionals Thea Werkhoven, University of Sydney, Australia |
| Slides | Resignifying fat: Fat liberation media as potential intervention bias Rosalind Major, Davidson College, USA |
| Symposium: Weight Stigma in Culture and the Media | |
| Slides | Are the people tweeting about exercise also tweeting about fat? A descriptive study of twitter communities Ahuitz Rojas-Sánchez, Université Grenoble-Alpes, France |
| Slides | The metaphorical construction of weight in the media Tara Coltman-Patel, Nottingham Trent University, UK |
| Slides | The representation of weight, bodies and health in Sport England’s This Girl Can – a multimethod case study Maddie Sweetman, Leeds Beckett University, UK |
| Slides | “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 |
| Paper | 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 |
| Symposium: Weight Stigma in Healthcare | |
| N/A | (Mis)Information and stigma: Challenges for higher-weight women during family planning and pregnancy Kara Fransisco, University of Florida, USA |
| Slides | “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 |
| Slides | Uncovering weight bias in therapists’ responses to risk for clients with Eating Disorders Kel O’Neill, University of East London, UK |
| Slides | 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 |
| Symposium: Weight Stigma, Health and Wellbeing | |
| Slides | Social identity threat and the implications of weight stigma on healthcare avoidance Dr Janell Mensinger, Drexel University, USA |
| Slides | Inhospitable chairs: Everyday insults that negatively impact higher-weight individuals Janet K Keeler, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, USA |
| Slides | Does weight stigma hurt? Exploring the overlap between social and physical pain Dr KayLoni Olson, Brown University, USA |
| Symposium: Stigma and Weight Loss Surgery | |
| Slides | Healthism and experiences of social, healthcare, and self-stigma in higher-weight women Alejandro Jiménez-Loaisa, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Spain |
| Slides | Stigma and surgery: A qualitative investigation into face-saving behaviors among bariatric surgery patients Nicholas Eckhart, Central Michigan University, USA |
| Slides | Stigma and the social experience of weight loss surgery Dr Barbara Hansen, Henderson State University, USA |
| Breakout Sessions | |
| Slides | Workshop: Weight stigma in critical psychology: The praxis of challenging healthism Lauren Munro, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada |
| Slides | Workshop: Waking up to the reality of weight stigma in safe spaces Dr Rachel Porter, Carolina House Eating Disorders Treatment Center, USA |
| Posters | |
| Poster | Pregnancy and maternal weight: The experience of stigmatised risk Alice Keely, University of Leeds, UK |
| Poster | The experiences of pregnant women with a raised body mass index regarding their communication with midwives and other healthcare professionals Jenny Cunningham, Royal Devon & Exeter Foundation Trust/University of Plymouth, UK |
| Poster | NHS Highland’s Healthy Weight Strategy: Is the Well Now message being received in a constructive way? Kara Hicks, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK |
| Poster | Attitudes and weight bias in Dutch health care professionals R. Camfferman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Poster | The challenge of teaching students a positive attitude towards the patient with overweight or obesity Dr Karen Salvo, Universidad del Desarollo, Chile |
| Poster | A validation study of the Health and Weight Attitudes Scale with UK undergraduate physical activity, nutrition and health students S-A Starkey, Liverpool John Moores University, UK |
| Poster | A pilot study to examine the impact of class-based activity on undergraduates’ awareness of their implicit and explicit weight attitudes and perceptions S-A Starkey, Liverpool John Moores University, UK |
| Poster | Stigmatizing attitudes and approach/avoidance responses toward higher-weight exercisers among exercise science students Ahuitz Rojas-Sánchez, Université Grenoble-Alpes, France |
| Poster | When we become them: Internalised weight stigma among obesity professionals Dr Judy Anne Swift, University of Nottingham, UK |
| Poster | Should the soft drinks industry levy (“The sugar tax”) be framed as a childhood obesity intervention? Ola Anabtawi, University of Nottingham, UK |
| Poster | The effect of weight stigma on eating and exercise behaviour among adolescents Dr Natasha Magson, Macquarie University, Australia |
| Poster | The role of weight stigma in disordered eating perceptions: An anthropological approach Beatriz Klimeck Gouvêa Gama, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil |
| Poster | The effect of body shame and self-criticism on wellbeing: Prospective associations in a sample of participants of a community-based weight management programme C. Duarte, University of Leeds, UK |
| Poster | Women’s lived experiences of fatness Lucinda D Richardson, Liverpool John Moores University, UK |
| Poster | Assessing self-compassion as a function of BMI Ann Vincent, University of South Wales, UK |
| Poster | Prevalence of anti-fat bias and other discrimination in college students Sharon Bernecki DeJoy, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Poster | Suffolk against sizeism: Perceived controllability of obesity predicts support for anti-weight discrimination legislation Martin Čadek, Leeds Beckett University, UK |
| Poster | Can imagined contact really reduce weight stigma? Kiran Purewal, University of Kent, UK |
| Poster | Exploring stigma and (disordered) eating in a non-clinical peer support compassion group Helen James, Nutriri, UK |
| Poster | Generating new approaches to stigma reduction interventions: Recommendations from the 2017 Weight Stigma Conference Trish Cain, Murdoch University, Australia |
| Poster | Do body mass and weight bias internalization predict women’s experience of romantic relationships? Ruth Cohn, John F Kennedy University, USA |
| Poster | “Obese” attributions made by adolescents and young adults Kelsey Rose, University of Michigan, USA |