Trigger Warning: This conversation contains content about eating disorders.

In this new DSMINDSETS podcast episode we invited Dr. Jessica Alleva who is a Canadian body image researcher, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience and also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Appearance Research in the United Kingdom.
Together with our host Dr. Anna Schueth (FPN), Jessica passionately talked about recent research projects and her mission to improve the way people think and feel about their own body. In this conversation, Jessica also shared a lot of personal experiences and explains how these shaped her career trajectory until this day and how being a mother has impacted her work.
She also talks with Anna about how she collects data for her research and  what type of data she uses to examine the phenomena of body image among a diverse group of people.


Full biography of Jessica Alleva: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-alleva-03380754/?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAuCj2cBTwU3PBk8c6gJzEjuVwicReAc6A0

Jessica's Column in the Observant: https://www.observantonline.nl/english/Home/Articles/id/43235/woman-on-a-mission

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