Appearance Matters: The Podcast!

Welcome back to the summer shorts series! Over the summer, we’re bringing you short episodes focusing on a recently published paper by researchers at the team at the Centre for Appearance Research.

On this episode, A/Prof Helena Lewis-Smith speaks with Nadia about a paper titled: Evaluating a body image school-based intervention in India: A randomized controlled trial

You can read the paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1740144522002091

Episode produced by Nadia Craddock

Summer shorts series developed by Nadia Craddock

Welcome back to the summer shorts series! Over the summer, we’re bringing you short episodes focusing on a recently published paper by researchers at the team at the Centre for Appearance Research.

Today, Maia speaks to Ellie Cowles (MSc student) and Ella Guest (Senior Research Fellow) about their paper titled: Imagery versus captions: The effect of body positive Instagram content on young women's mood and body image.

You can read the paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1740144522002078?casa_token=ajyxJLT4sAgAAAAA:9TfsZp4Ro4O0C4EBkSOo9ZtvNj__so8VuDnFeRr9ShjUm_p7735vfn2dT_bpRWOsow5JTwKxGA

Photo: Sourced from Pexels

Episode produced by Maia Thornton

Summer shorts series developed by Nadia Craddock

Welcome back to the summer shorts series! Over the summer, we’re bringing you short episodes focusing on a recently published paper by researchers at the team at the Centre for Appearance Research.

Today, Bruna speaks to Fazio Zucchelli (Senior Research Fellow) about his paper titled: Do congenital and acquired causes of visible difference predict distinct appearance-related psychosocial outcomes?

You can read the paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1740144523000487

Photo: Sourced from Unsplash

Episode produced by Bruna Costa

Summer shorts series developed by Nadia Craddock

Welcome back to the summer shorts series! Over the summer, the CAR podcast team are bringing you bite-sized episodes on a recently published paper from different members of the team at the Centre for Appearance Research.

In this summer short, Abbi speaks with Morgan Zolkwer about his recently published paper which explores the impact of a photoshoot and photography exhibition on perceptions of birthmarks.

You can find out more by reading the published paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pde.15315

To learn more about the exhibition, visit: https://www.caringmattersnow.co.uk/awareness/how-do-you-c-me-now/

To hear more about CMN, listen to epsiode 69 of the podcast:

www.bit.ly/carpod_69

Cover Image: Photograph by Brock Elbank for Caring Matters Now. Used with permission.

Summer shorts series developed by Nadia Craddock

Episode produced by Abbi Mathews

In response to popular demand, we have brought back our Summer Shorts Series - weekly bitesize episodes spotlighting recent studies published by members of the Centre for Appearance Research.

In this first episode, Nadia speaks with Professor Phillippa Diedrichs about a paper titled: Can following body positive or appearance neutral Facebook pages improve young women's body image and mood? Testing novel social media micro-interventions, published in the scientific journal, Body Image.

Paper Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S174014452200211X

Photo by Darina Belonogova: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-wearing-gray-bra-looking-away-9164976/

This month's episode is on colourism with UKRI Future Leaders Fellow Dr Aisha Phoenix.

To keep up to date with the Understanding Colourism in young people project:

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/understanding-colourism-among-young-people-in-the-uk

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Thank you!

Music by Sian Evans & John Landau: toplinefilm.com

Cover photo created by Girl Effect

Episode developed and produced by Nadia Craddock

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the development of the ACCORD resource, including our adult representatives, Headlines Craniofacial Support, Fine Rolling Media, and the specialist NHS craniofacial units. Special thanks to Anna Kearney, Katie Piggott, Andrea White, Dawn Wilkin, Emma McCann and Hannah Saunders. The ACCORD project was funded by the VTCT Foundation. To access ACCORD, visit: https://www.headlines.org.uk/for-adults. To access the short online evaluation survey, visit: tinyurl.com/ACCORD-Evaluation

This month, we are joined by Kieran Moulton, a second year PhD student at the Centre for Appearance Research, who tells us all about his research into tattooing and scars (so far!)

Kieran discusses two studies, looking into the experiences of tattoo artists who have provided scar tattoos, and the experiences of those who have used tattoos to either decorate or camouflage their scars.

To find out more about Kieran's research, here is a link to his 2021 paper 'Exploring tattoo artists’ understanding of decorative non-medical professional tattooing as a method of scar camouflage and decoration' (Moulton, 2021): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13548506.2022.2057556

To find out about how tattooing can be used in the medical field, head over to episode 61: https://soundcloud.com/appearance-matters/medical-tattooing

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Thank you! x

Music by Sian Evans & John Landau: toplinefilm.com

Cover photo by Seyi Ariyo from Unsplash

Episode developed & produced by Abbi Mathews

This month our very own Appearance Matters the podcast co-host, Bruna Costa, joins us to share insights from her doctoral research project, conducted as part of her Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology.

Bruna discusses the importance of increasing representation of marginalised groups within visible difference research and working closely with community partners. Bruna also shares novel insights from her research focussed on the experiences of UK Somali adults with visible facial differences.

A message from Bruna: Thank you to the individuals who took part in this research, and shared their experiences so openly, and our community collaborators, who were instrumental to the project. Thank you to the funders of this work, the Vocational Training Charitable Trust (VTCT) Foundation. Thank you to my doctoral supervisors, Heidi Williamson, Diana Harcourt and Habib Naqvi.

To find out more about Bruna's research, her thesis will soon be available on the UWE repository.

To find out more about Nura Aabe's work:

BBC news article:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-57684958

Bristol TEDxBristol talk:

https://tedxbristol.com/about/person/nura_aabe

To find out more about similar research:

South Asian perceptions and experiences of Cleft Lip and Palate phttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1748681510002317?casa_token=jMz0v96LLW4AAAAA:KT8CKBNXrq-Azy2Z8iUOfPeBbCSShZNJf1pnjCpLLFddlaxcwgepzV2NjoGnRINIyp_WFN3X7A

Bangladeshi women's perceptions and experiences of neurofibromatosis. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10897-007-9097-0

South Asian women's perceptions and experiences of vitiligo. https://academic.oup.com/bjd/article/163/3/481/6642583

Chinese women's perceptions and experiences of skin conditions.

https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/142734/2/Thompson.%20Cultural%20nuances%20of%20skin%20shame.pdf

South Asian women perceptions and experiences of breast cancer.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pon.4187?casa_token=6U6uTSKsSrsAAAAA%3ANZ3BSF0S_Wb3pYcKk1Mb0LBefd2dP0YjQEFMjRhdvlQfpQUQb7kYtqQ1xvPcNkD-Y9FWhUMk7RAU7zQ

Tune in to hear about an exciting new body image intervention designed for adolescent girls and young women in Indonesia - Warna Warni Waktu.

Guest Timestamps:

Dr Kholisah Nasution - 4.42

Jonathan McKay (Girl Effect) - 21.00

Sharon Haywood - 44.15

This project was a collaboration involving Girl Effect, Percolate Galactic, the Centre for Appearance Research and Indonesian research partners based at the University of Indonesia and the University of Hawaii and was funded by the Dove Self-Esteem Project.

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Warna Waarin Wake video series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A2nGjrG-_c

Study Protocol Paper: https://www.researchprotocols.org/2022/1/e33596

Study Results Paper: COMING SOON

To find out more about the Centre for Appearance Research, follow us:

• On Twitter: twitter.com/CAR_UWE

• On Instagram: www.instagram.com/car_uwe/

• On Facebook: www.facebook.com/AppearanceResearch

Please share, subscribe, rate and review. It really does mean a lot.

Thank you!

Music by Sian Evans & John Landau: toplinefilm.com

Cover photo created by Girl Effect

Episode developed and produced by Nadia Craddock