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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · 23d

FOOD ON YOUR FEED:
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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · 26d

📢 Check out the SPHR health and risk communication for public health network webinar series!

I'm presenting on 24 SEPTEMBER at 12PM about how the food industry use misleading health communication to influence food behaviours.

I hope you can join, register here: sphr.nihr.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · 27d

Happy to be speaking at this ZPS conference today in the beautiful city of Ljubljana

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · Aug 26

We're hiring! We have permanent Gr8 (lecturer) and Gr9 (senior lecturer) Teaching & Research posts available @livunipsyc.bsky.social. See here for more info/to apply: shorturl.at/cFFsf

Please share with your networks 👍

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · Jul 30

Links here:
1. www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/ori...
2. bit.ly/Orig-Ideas

Episode 10: Food | Research | University of Liverpool

www.liverpool.ac.uk

Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · Jul 30

Check out this Original Ideas podcast ep on our relationship with food featuring yours truly, @charlottehardman.bsky.social and @beckyevans.bsky.social

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · Jul 23

Brilliant from England women, who I'm sure have a better diet than is represented by those pitch border ads... we've seen this before somewhere haven't we @robinireland.bsky.social ?!

share.google/wsIAMLdRPM6H...

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Prof Amelia Lake @lakenutrition.bsky.social · Jul 22

Brilliant to see this important first report from our #NutritionNorth collaboration highlighting the stark dietary inequalities that exist.
However we do offer ideas to address these issues.

The NHSA @thenhsa.bsky.social · Jul 22

THREAD
Northern regions have some of the poorest diets in England, putting them at risk of conditions such as obesity, hypertension and other preventable diseases, according to a new report released today backed by Hairy Biker Si King www.thenhsa.co.uk/2025/07/poor...
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LINC @lincneurosci.bsky.social · Jul 21

New MSc Neuroscience is launching in September 2026.

This programme will introduce students to the field of neuroscience through the lens of clinical disorders of the central nervous system.

Register your interest: www.liverpool.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · Jun 12

An excellent presentation from @amyfinlay.bsky.social at #ISBNPA2025👏 @livunipsyc.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · Jun 11

If you're at ISBNPA please check out our session on digital food marketing tomorrow (3.15pm, Herald Theatre) 👍

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Prof Amelia Lake @lakenutrition.bsky.social · Jun 2

Lead author Prof Tim Townshend, co-authors @emmaboyland.bsky.social Prof Heather Brown, @helenjmoore.bsky.social & me

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Prof Amelia Lake @lakenutrition.bsky.social · Jun 2

We have a new paper on #darkkitchens following on from our @nihr.bsky.social funded research

"Hidden in plain sight: a scoping review of ‘dark kitchens’ and the potential implications for the English planning system"

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Hidden in plain sight: a scoping review of ‘dark kitchens’ and the potential implications for the English planning system | Town Planning Review

Over the past decade, the food environment has changed dramatically. One significant change has been the evolution of online delivery, which has increasingly become associated with so-called ‘dark kitchens’ – catering operations that only offer food for ...

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · May 27

The Dept of Psychology @livunipsyc.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social are offering SEVEN funded part-time PhD training posts from 1 September 2025. There are associated teaching duties (eg research methods & statistics). For more info and to apply see here: tinyurl.com/yw6zy74f

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · May 22

Delay, delay, delay... now to January 2026 so that ministers can formally write the exemption for brand advertising into legislation

archive.ph/vHR5D

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · May 21

Nat Taylor, PhD student in the Appetite and Obesity Research Group, presenting some of her PhD research at this @cancook.bsky.social meeting @livunipsyc.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · May 21

Beautiful setting of St. Asaph's Cathedral for today's @cancook.bsky.social meeting about the future of food and why it matters

Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · May 12

Fabulous presentations from my @livuni-iph.bsky.social colleagues @charlottehardman.bsky.social and Edi Putra at the ECO25 Environment and Policy abstract session 👏

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · May 11

It was so smooth I barely noticed 😉

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · May 11

I always have something new to think about after seeing @harryrutter.bsky.social speak 👍 #ECO25 @easoobesity.bsky.social

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · May 11

Excellent talk from @jeanmadams.bsky.social setting out public health challenges and opportunities - focus on the broken food system #ECO25 @easoobesity.bsky.social

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · May 11

Great to see our study, being presented at #ECO25, getting lots of attention today @easoobesity.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social @livunipsyc.bsky.social

Children eat more after seeing just five minutes of junk food ads, study finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Children eat more after seeing just five minutes of junk food ads, study finds

Researchers call on UK government to close advertising ‘loopholes’ that are ‘driving excess calorie intake’

www.theguardian.com

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · May 11

ECO25 is a go 😃 @easoobesity.bsky.social

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · Apr 30

Delighted to be able to share a range of outputs from our project on brand advertising (thanks to Research England funding to UoL) - A THREAD @livunipress.bsky.social @livunipsyc.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social

Caroline Cerny @carolinecerny.bsky.social · Apr 30

How do you solve a problem like brand advertising...?

Last year @emmaboyland.bsky.social & I had a discussion over breakfast* where we discussed our concerns about the rapidly emerging loophole of food brand ads and lack of a policy approach to address it...

*Can confirm no crumpets were consumed

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Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social · Apr 24

Image based ads will now appear between pieces of content on Threads

www.adweek.com/social-marke...

Meta's Threads Begins Global Ad Rollout Within Its Feed

Image-based ads will appear between pieces of content within Threads’ feed.

www.adweek.com

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