Appearance Matters: The Podcast!

What legal and non-legal changes can we introduce to protect people with a visible difference(i.e., any condition or injury which alters appearance) from discrimination in society?

Nadia speaks with Dr Hannah Saunders, Director of Studies in Law at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge about her work on appearance equality and the law and then we get an exclusive from Jade on the resource she's created for primary school teachers to help promote acceptance of appearance diversity.

Link to the Law Centre's Network website where you can search to find a law centre near you for independent legal advice on any possible equality issues relating to visible difference (including issues related to perceived visible difference or by association with someone else): www.lawcentres.org.uk

Jade's free resource for schools: https://faceequalityinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Teachers-Support-Guide-FINAL-all-portrait.pdf

Jade’s PhD Topic Episode:

https://soundcloud.com/appearance-matters/51-back-to-school-promoting-acceptance-in-primary-schools

Cover Image via Unspash: Tingey Injury Law Firm

The experience of parenting a child with a visible difference is complex and so, with the help of Tina Rycroft (Mother of a child with Microtia) and Maia Thornton (PhD researcher at CAR), Jade and Bruna unpack this topic area.

Find out more about the parent support materials being developed at CAR: https://bit.ly/2RM3oDC

Resources on Microtia UK website: http://www.microtiauk.org/information/

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Music by Sian Evans & John Landau: toplinefilm.com

Cover photo provided by Tina Rycroft

Episode developed & produced by Jade Parnell

This month, Bruna and Jade discuss the expansion of support for adults with a cleft lip and/or palate. Guests Nicola Stock (Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Appearance Research) and Kenny Ardouin (Adult Services Manager at the Cleft Lip and Palate Association (CLAPA)), share their important recent research and work in this area.

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To find out more about the work of CLAPA, visit:

• CLAPA’s website: https://www.clapa.com/

• CLAPA’s Adult Voices Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CLAPAAdults/

• CLAPA’s Cleft Talk podcast: https://soundcloud.com/clefttalk

To find out more about Cleft Lip and Palate Awareness Week 2021 (8-16 May), please visit: https://www.clapa.com/awareness-week/

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Music by Sian Evans & John Landau: toplinefilm.com

Cover photo provided by CLAPA

Episode developed & produced by Bruna Costa

Lockdown has been particularly challenging for people living with eating disorders. Nadia and Jade find out why with eating disorder expert, Helen West RD before hearing more about people's experiences of eating disorder recovery with CAR's Gina Pegram and Leah Newton - an eating disorder campaigner.

For more on Helen: https://embodiedeating.co.uk

For more on Leah: https://workedout.co.uk

Eating Disorder Resources:

https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk

https://butterfly.org.au

https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org

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Cute photos of kittens by The Lucky Neko via Unsplash

Nearly a year since the first lockdown, Jade and Bruna discuss the experiences of those with a visible difference during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. Guests Diana Harcourt, Pippa Tollow and Ella Guest from CAR, as well as Catherine Deakin from Changing Faces share important recent research on this topic.

The work described by members of CAR was supported and funded by the Vocational Training Charitable Trust (VTCT) Foundation. http://www.vtctfoundation.org.uk

Changing Faces sources of support link: https://www.changingfaces.org.uk/adviceandsupport

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Music by Sian Evans & John Landau: toplinefilm.com

Cover photo by Ivan Samkov from Pexels

Episode developed & produced by Jade Parnell

Nadia and Jade speak with Dr Issy Bray (​Associate Head of Department for Research and Knowledge Exchange - Department of Health and Social Sciences, UWE Bristol) and Dr Helena Lewis-Smith (Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Appearance Research, UWE Bristol) about body image from a public health perspective.

Papers discussed by Issy, Helena, Amy and Anna

Bornioli, A., Lewis-Smith, H., Smith, A., Slater, A., & Bray, I. (2019). Adolescent body dissatisfaction and disordered eating: Predictors of later risky health behaviours. Social Science & Medicine, 238, 112458.

Bornioli, A., Lewis-Smith, H., Slater, A., & Bray, I. (2020). Body dissatisfaction predicts the onset of depression among adolescent females and males: a prospective study. J Epidemiol Community Health.

Lewis-Smith, H., Bray, I., Salmon, D., & Slater, A. (2020). Prospective Pathways to Depressive Symptoms and Disordered Eating in Adolescence: A 7-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49(10), 2060-2074.

Discussion Article

Bray, I., Slater, A., Lewis-Smith, H., Bird, E., & Sabey, A. (2018). Promoting positive body image and tackling overweight/obesity in children and adolescents: A combined health psychology and public health approach. Preventive medicine, 116, 219-221.

Times Article

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/teenage-fears-over-appearance-linked-to-depression-in-girls-and-boys-9qh2vns78

Mental Health Foundation Report

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/body-image-report/exec-summary

Women & Equalities Committee Body Image Survey

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmselect/cmwomeq/805/80502.htm

Watch Co-Director of CAR, Dr Amy Slater provide oral evidence here:

https://committees.parliament.uk/event/2085/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/

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Music by Sian Evans & John Landau: toplinefilm.com

Episode co-created by Jade and Nadia

In the last episode of 2020, Nadia and Jade learn more about body image in India from CAR colleagues: Dr Helena Lewis-Smith, Kirsty Garbett, and Farheen Hasan as well as from project collaborators Dr Hemal Shroff, Dr Megha Dhillon, Manavi Khurana, Ruchika Kanwal and Megha Saklani. (Discussion starts at 11.45)

Some of the new papers referenced in this episode:

Diedrichs, P. C., Atkinson, M. J., Garbett, K. M., & Leckie, G. (2020). Evaluating the “Dove Confident Me” Five-Session Body Image Intervention Delivered by Teachers in Schools: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Effectiveness Trial. Journal of Adolescent Health.

Lewis-Smith, H., Garbett, K. M., Chaudhry, A., Uglik-Marucha, N., Vitoratou, S., Dhillon, M., ... & Diedrichs, P. C. (2020). Adaptation and validation of the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire in English among urban Indian adolescents. The International Journal of Eating Disorders.

For more on the Karma Centre for Counselling & Wellbeing: https://www.karmacare.in

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Cover image: Raj Rana on Unsplash

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Episode developed & produced by Nadia Craddock.

In this episode, Nadia and Jade discuss the topic of face transplants. With the help of guest’s emeritus Professor Nicky Rumsey OBE, Dr Alex Clarke and historian Dr Fay Bound Alberti, this episode will explore both the history and debated ethical dilemmas of facial transplantation.

Also, it's our 5th Birthday!! We can't celebrate in person, but as a birthday gift we would love it if our lovely listeners would... please rate us on Apple Podcasts – it really DOES help. 

Link to the Being Human Festival https://beinghumanfestival.org

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Episode developed & produced by Jade Parnell

Nadia and Jade talk to Dr Emily Matheson and Harriet Smith about fostering positive body image through children’s media. Specifically, we hear more about the research evaluating Steven Universe x Dove Self-Esteem Project cartoon 'shorts' and e-book.

The Steven Universe e-book and animations are free and available here: http://www.stevenuniverseselfesteem.co.uk/

Thanks to Rebecca Sugar and Cartoon Network for permission to share the clips!

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It’s that time of year where children are headed back to school (albeit a bit different than usual) and while schools are preparing for another year of learning, what can we learn from how to help young children with accepting their own and other people’s appearances? What do we already know? Jade and Nadia explore the topic of how to promote acceptance of appearance in young school-age children with the help of Emily (starting at 9:37), a Primary School teacher.

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Episode developed & produced by Jade Parnell