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Delighted to have been awarded funding from the British Psychological Society to extend my PhD research 🥦 The award will fund a research assistantship for an undergraduate student, Sakina, over summer

A lovely evening as we come towards the end of our APPETItE project. Our amazing postdocs Abigail Pickard and Dr Katie Edwards have both secured great posts for their next steps. We will miss you and look forward to seeing all you flourish in the next stages of your careers!

Latest paper from our APPETItE study led by Dr Katie Edwards Amongst other differences between parents of children with varying eating profiles, we observed poorer wellbeing in parents of children with avoidant eating. Read the findings here: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S…

APPETItE team reunited in Ghent ready for European Childhood Obesity Group conference. Looking forward to sharing some outcomes of our project to support parents of children with avid eating behaviour PEACh Research Aston Dr Katie Edwards Abigail Pickard

Great few days at the European Childhood Obesity Group congress in Ghent 🇧🇪 we presented the latest findings from the APPETItE project Abigail Pickard Prof. Jackie Blissett AstonPsychology Aston Institute of Health & Neurodevelopment (IHN) PEACh Research Aston

Interested in the differential effects of fibre and fermented foods on the microbiota-gut-brain axis? Check out our new review in Nutrition Society Thanks to my brilliant co-authors @RamyaBalasubr13 Aimone Ferri, RD Paul Cotter UCCpsychiatry John F. Cryan doi.org/10.1017/S00296…

Fully-funded ESRC DTP PhD Studentship with Dr Sarah Carrington, Dr Andrew Surtees, and I, on "Autistic Features as Mechanisms of Selective Eating". Deadline = 17/02/2025, full details here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN045/phd…

Want to do a PhD with us? New ESRC funded PhD exploring complementary feeding and child development outcomes. ⁦Dr Megan Jarman⁩ ⁦Dr Nicole Letourneau⁩ ⁦Dr. Laura Shapiro @lashaps.bsky.social⁩ ⁦Prof. Jackie Blissett⁩ ⁦MGS ESRC DTP⁩ jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN153/phd…

‼️Don’t forget there’s still time to apply for this fully-funded ESRC studentship with me, Claire Farrow and Dr Nicole Letourneau working on a birth cohort study to examine the relationship between complementary feeding and child development outcomes!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

🥗|Putting least calorific meals first on menu makes teenagers more likely to order them 🎓The researchers are Uni of Birmingham’s Dr Katie Edwards & Aston University’s Prof. Jackie Blissett & James Reynolds (@j-p-reynolds on bsky) 🍽️Restaurants could be important for tackling obesity 👉tinyurl.com/4x2h8h6h

👶|Babies respond positively to smell of foods experienced in the womb such as kale or carrot 🥕🥬Developing food preferences begins in the womb, earlier than thought 🎓Aston University's Prof. Jackie Blissett co-led the research with Durham University colleagues 👉tinyurl.com/mr2psvf8