Phaedra Longhurst
@phaedralonghurst.bsky.social
PhD student at Body & Self group, Anglia Ruskin University. Researching body image in autistic individuals 👩💻 #AutisticsInAcademia
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For folks who have a mind to read what I've been up to, here is my some of my (PhD and external) research: 🥸:
first, my qualitative paper on positive body image in autistic folks doi.org/10.1016/j.body…
first, my qualitative paper on positive body image in autistic folks doi.org/10.1016/j.body…
Autistic women or Non-binary folks (18+) needed 📢
With support from @edaceatingautism.bsky.social, we would like to hear your valuable expertise to review an intervention that aims to prevent body image concerns and disordered eating. For more info, please email Hannah at [email protected]
With support from @edaceatingautism.bsky.social, we would like to hear your valuable expertise to review an intervention that aims to prevent body image concerns and disordered eating. For more info, please email Hannah at [email protected]
May 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Autistic women or Non-binary folks (18+) needed 📢
With support from @edaceatingautism.bsky.social, we would like to hear your valuable expertise to review an intervention that aims to prevent body image concerns and disordered eating. For more info, please email Hannah at [email protected]
With support from @edaceatingautism.bsky.social, we would like to hear your valuable expertise to review an intervention that aims to prevent body image concerns and disordered eating. For more info, please email Hannah at [email protected]
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Following public false claims on autism causation and attacks on science, INSAR has released a statement that people are “born with autism”
www.autism-insar.org/page/insarst.... Autism as innate and lifelong is the focus my new free paper (long thread incoming): www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...
www.autism-insar.org/page/insarst.... Autism as innate and lifelong is the focus my new free paper (long thread incoming): www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...
April 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Following public false claims on autism causation and attacks on science, INSAR has released a statement that people are “born with autism”
www.autism-insar.org/page/insarst.... Autism as innate and lifelong is the focus my new free paper (long thread incoming): www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...
www.autism-insar.org/page/insarst.... Autism as innate and lifelong is the focus my new free paper (long thread incoming): www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...
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It’s still not too late to get yourself a ticket to listen to Vikram Jaswal on Supporting nonspeaking autistic people’s flourishing.
This Thursday at 6pm GMT
Link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
This Thursday at 6pm GMT
Link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Supporting nonspeaking autistic people's flourishing
... using collaborative cognitive science. With Vikram Jaswal
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March 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It’s still not too late to get yourself a ticket to listen to Vikram Jaswal on Supporting nonspeaking autistic people’s flourishing.
This Thursday at 6pm GMT
Link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
This Thursday at 6pm GMT
Link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
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Neurodivergence related access in work is intimately bound up with the norms of communication. This includes subtle things relating to enforcement of style, pacing, neuronormative email etiquette, and so on. I think this often gets overlooked in favour of a focus on less subtle things.
March 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Neurodivergence related access in work is intimately bound up with the norms of communication. This includes subtle things relating to enforcement of style, pacing, neuronormative email etiquette, and so on. I think this often gets overlooked in favour of a focus on less subtle things.
My third PhD study has been published and is currently available OA, just in time for submitting my thesis 🎉🤸
We tested a conceptual model wherein positive autistic identity is associated with flourishing via positive body image for some autistic folks!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We tested a conceptual model wherein positive autistic identity is associated with flourishing via positive body image for some autistic folks!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Body appreciation mediates the association between satisfaction with autistic identity and flourishing in autistic adults
Underpinned by the neurodiversity paradigm, scholars are increasingly interested in relationships between positive autistic identity (i.e., feeling sa…
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March 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
My third PhD study has been published and is currently available OA, just in time for submitting my thesis 🎉🤸
We tested a conceptual model wherein positive autistic identity is associated with flourishing via positive body image for some autistic folks!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We tested a conceptual model wherein positive autistic identity is associated with flourishing via positive body image for some autistic folks!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Is it normal to cry over your laptop in the last month of your PhD? (usually people joking say "I'm asking for a friend", but I'm really autistic/socially anxious and so I have no friends) 💀
February 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Is it normal to cry over your laptop in the last month of your PhD? (usually people joking say "I'm asking for a friend", but I'm really autistic/socially anxious and so I have no friends) 💀
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I am so excited to share my first publication, a labor of love! My co-1st author @katerinaldi1.bsky.social and I examined weight related terminology preference within two samples of folks in larger bodies🥰 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Words are heavy: Weight-related terminology preferences are associated with larger-bodied people’s health behaviors and beliefs
Clinicians and researchers may struggle with appropriate terminology when discussing body size. Pathologizing larger bodies has led to use of medicali…
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February 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I am so excited to share my first publication, a labor of love! My co-1st author @katerinaldi1.bsky.social and I examined weight related terminology preference within two samples of folks in larger bodies🥰 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
To my fellow AuDHDers, I would like to incorporate some PPI into the development of my grant proposal. While I do not have the funds to reimburse you, having your input would be a huge help in pursuing this important work!
If interested, DM or email me at [email protected]
If interested, DM or email me at [email protected]
a cat is playing with an apple laptop with the words research time written below it
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February 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
To my fellow AuDHDers, I would like to incorporate some PPI into the development of my grant proposal. While I do not have the funds to reimburse you, having your input would be a huge help in pursuing this important work!
If interested, DM or email me at [email protected]
If interested, DM or email me at [email protected]
Ok, sure. But what about the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the IRA and the invasion of the soviet union in Afghanistan and the rise of the Taliban? See a trend here? Make-up, my arse 💀
February 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Ok, sure. But what about the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the IRA and the invasion of the soviet union in Afghanistan and the rise of the Taliban? See a trend here? Make-up, my arse 💀
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Literally cannot wait to share this ✨new publication✨ with y’all.
doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...
Tl;dr. White working-class women’s body image is rooted in appearance norms, rather than appearance ideals (they are conceptually different).
Super important to consider intersectionality of class x gender
doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...
Tl;dr. White working-class women’s body image is rooted in appearance norms, rather than appearance ideals (they are conceptually different).
Super important to consider intersectionality of class x gender
February 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Literally cannot wait to share this ✨new publication✨ with y’all.
doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...
Tl;dr. White working-class women’s body image is rooted in appearance norms, rather than appearance ideals (they are conceptually different).
Super important to consider intersectionality of class x gender
doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...
Tl;dr. White working-class women’s body image is rooted in appearance norms, rather than appearance ideals (they are conceptually different).
Super important to consider intersectionality of class x gender
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The video of last week's methods panel is up! Come check out Freddie Jones, Léon Van Ommen and I talked about using qualitative methods with nonspeaking people.
Link to the full panel video (and to the slides for my section) available here: www.heasutherland.com/talk/ethnogr...
Link to the full panel video (and to the slides for my section) available here: www.heasutherland.com/talk/ethnogr...
Ethnography, neurodiversity, and higher support needs | Holly E. A. Sutherland
Part of a panel about qualitative methods for including nonspeaking and high support needs neurodivergent people in research.
www.heasutherland.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The video of last week's methods panel is up! Come check out Freddie Jones, Léon Van Ommen and I talked about using qualitative methods with nonspeaking people.
Link to the full panel video (and to the slides for my section) available here: www.heasutherland.com/talk/ethnogr...
Link to the full panel video (and to the slides for my section) available here: www.heasutherland.com/talk/ethnogr...
🔥Hot off the press🔥
We have FINALLY explored the relationship between nature exposure and positive body image in the #autistic community. So so excited to share our findings which is OPEN ACCESS🤸🌿🌳
doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...
We have FINALLY explored the relationship between nature exposure and positive body image in the #autistic community. So so excited to share our findings which is OPEN ACCESS🤸🌿🌳
doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...
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February 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🔥Hot off the press🔥
We have FINALLY explored the relationship between nature exposure and positive body image in the #autistic community. So so excited to share our findings which is OPEN ACCESS🤸🌿🌳
doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...
We have FINALLY explored the relationship between nature exposure and positive body image in the #autistic community. So so excited to share our findings which is OPEN ACCESS🤸🌿🌳
doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...
My heart just dropped into my stomach when I saw the $589 STUDENT registration fee. I may end up getting tacos from Sainsbury's instead 🙃 #ICED2025
This Cornish lass is going to Texas! Very very excited to be given the opportunity to share what me and my amazing collab pals have been getting up to at #ICED2025. I'll also be sharing an upcoming PhD study of mine 🤸 I also can't wait to get tacos and be jet lagged 💀
January 29, 2025 at 6:33 AM
My heart just dropped into my stomach when I saw the $589 STUDENT registration fee. I may end up getting tacos from Sainsbury's instead 🙃 #ICED2025
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🌟 Exciting Opportunity: #SENSS #PhD Studentship at the University of Lincoln 🌟
Are you passionate about improving #body #image in schools?
📝Apply now to this fully funded studentship supervised by Dr. Kamila Irvine & Prof. David Dawson👇
www.senss.ac.uk/collaborativ...
Are you passionate about improving #body #image in schools?
📝Apply now to this fully funded studentship supervised by Dr. Kamila Irvine & Prof. David Dawson👇
www.senss.ac.uk/collaborativ...
Collaborative Project 5 — South and East Network for Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership
www.senss.ac.uk
January 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
🌟 Exciting Opportunity: #SENSS #PhD Studentship at the University of Lincoln 🌟
Are you passionate about improving #body #image in schools?
📝Apply now to this fully funded studentship supervised by Dr. Kamila Irvine & Prof. David Dawson👇
www.senss.ac.uk/collaborativ...
Are you passionate about improving #body #image in schools?
📝Apply now to this fully funded studentship supervised by Dr. Kamila Irvine & Prof. David Dawson👇
www.senss.ac.uk/collaborativ...
🗣️ Participants needed for my student's study
We are looking for UK-based folks (18+ years) to take part in an online experimental survey to explore the effects of social media content on body image and eating attitudes.
To learn more and take part, click here: bit.ly/eatsocialmedia
We are looking for UK-based folks (18+ years) to take part in an online experimental survey to explore the effects of social media content on body image and eating attitudes.
To learn more and take part, click here: bit.ly/eatsocialmedia
January 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🗣️ Participants needed for my student's study
We are looking for UK-based folks (18+ years) to take part in an online experimental survey to explore the effects of social media content on body image and eating attitudes.
To learn more and take part, click here: bit.ly/eatsocialmedia
We are looking for UK-based folks (18+ years) to take part in an online experimental survey to explore the effects of social media content on body image and eating attitudes.
To learn more and take part, click here: bit.ly/eatsocialmedia
POV Only child at Christmas 💅🤶🐷
December 25, 2024 at 12:07 PM
POV Only child at Christmas 💅🤶🐷
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University of Exeter Fuly-Funded PhD Scholarships for Black British Researchers
Deadline: Feb 28
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Deadline: Feb 28
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter
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December 10, 2024 at 6:39 PM
University of Exeter Fuly-Funded PhD Scholarships for Black British Researchers
Deadline: Feb 28
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Deadline: Feb 28
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
This Cornish lass is going to Texas! Very very excited to be given the opportunity to share what me and my amazing collab pals have been getting up to at #ICED2025. I'll also be sharing an upcoming PhD study of mine 🤸 I also can't wait to get tacos and be jet lagged 💀
December 19, 2024 at 3:00 PM
This Cornish lass is going to Texas! Very very excited to be given the opportunity to share what me and my amazing collab pals have been getting up to at #ICED2025. I'll also be sharing an upcoming PhD study of mine 🤸 I also can't wait to get tacos and be jet lagged 💀
It absolutely blows my mind that the willy wonka experience happened only THIS YEAR. 2024, you have been way too long and way too unkind (except for gracing us with The Unknown)
a woman in a cowboy hat is holding a cane in front of a striped curtain
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December 18, 2024 at 6:48 AM
It absolutely blows my mind that the willy wonka experience happened only THIS YEAR. 2024, you have been way too long and way too unkind (except for gracing us with The Unknown)
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Update: version with image descriptions thanks to @thinkingautism.bsky.social
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Neurodiversity Is About Everyone — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Understanding the difference between neurodiverse and neurodivergent is much more important than just splitting hairs over linguistics.
thinkingautismguide.com
November 22, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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**Black UK PhD students**
Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend
-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
**Tell everyone**
www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend
-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
**Tell everyone**
www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Black heritage PhD scholarships | Study at Bristol | University of Bristol
We welcome applications for full scholarships to postgraduate research programmes starting in 2025.
www.bristol.ac.uk
December 8, 2024 at 5:55 PM
**Black UK PhD students**
Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend
-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
**Tell everyone**
www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend
-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
**Tell everyone**
www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Open access Research 101 training is now available. It was created with Autistic adults. Ideally, researchers would use this training for their Autistic collaborators who want more information about research. salvesen-research.ed.ac.uk/our-projects...
Research 101: Collaborating in Participatory Autism Research
Research 101 is a training course designed by and for autistic people. The purpose of the course is to educate autistic people who are not academics or professional researchers, so they can be more in...
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November 21, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Open access Research 101 training is now available. It was created with Autistic adults. Ideally, researchers would use this training for their Autistic collaborators who want more information about research. salvesen-research.ed.ac.uk/our-projects...
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Hooray!
If anyone wants to hear me talk about #monotropism, #autistic sensory reactions to food, and #eatingDisorders, you can now do it on a phone without keeping YouTube in the foreground!
If anyone wants to hear me talk about #monotropism, #autistic sensory reactions to food, and #eatingDisorders, you can now do it on a phone without keeping YouTube in the foreground!
We are on Spotify now!!! Thanks again! open.spotify.com/show/6tEaThW...
EDAC Table Talk Podcast
Podcast · Eating Disorders and Autism Collaborative · The Eating Disorders and Autism Collaborative (EDAC) Table Talk podcast centers on discussions around neurodivergence and eating behaviours. As ou...
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November 25, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Hooray!
If anyone wants to hear me talk about #monotropism, #autistic sensory reactions to food, and #eatingDisorders, you can now do it on a phone without keeping YouTube in the foreground!
If anyone wants to hear me talk about #monotropism, #autistic sensory reactions to food, and #eatingDisorders, you can now do it on a phone without keeping YouTube in the foreground!
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My first post here definitely has to be Tendril Theory, because when I made this in 2015 I had no idea how often it would be ripped off. Tell your friends and your enemies to tag me please 😂
November 16, 2024 at 12:06 AM
My first post here definitely has to be Tendril Theory, because when I made this in 2015 I had no idea how often it would be ripped off. Tell your friends and your enemies to tag me please 😂