This week’s journal club highlights a study exploring what parents and caregivers feel supports real change in family therapy for anorexia.
Their insights highlight the crucial role families play in recovery.

Read more in our Linktree! ☝️

Curious about what it means to be part of EDCRN?
✨Here’s a glimpse of what joining the EDCRN as a site will look like!
To learn more or express interest, email [email protected]

🎗️Awareness is the first step towards change.
Men deserve to be included, feel seen, and feel supported.

At EDCRN, we’re pushing for better understanding, recognition, and treatment of eating disorders in men 💚

#edcrn #eatingdisorders #eatingdisordersresearch #mensmentalhealth

Help shape the future of Eating Disorders! 📃

🔗 Take part in our survey now, link in bio

Closes: 16th Nov, Midnight

#eatingdisorderresearch #eatingdisoder #edcrn #researchmatters #edawareness #mentalhealth

Say hello 👋 to our placement students!

We are excited to have them on board. 🎉 Welcome to the team! #EDCRN @edgiuk.bsky.social @gladstudy.bsky.social #EatingDisorder

Are you interested in eating disorders funding and research?🔬
Please help us develop some key messaging to deliver to stakeholders to help increase investment in eating disorder research by completing the following survey!
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🔬This week’s journal club ➡️ Our co-principal investigator, Dr Karina Allen, recently published this paper on why routine outcome measurement is key in the eating disorders field.

Read the paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40640949/

Happy World Mental Health Day! 🧠

The theme this year is ‘Access to Services - Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies’.

🔬 This week’s journal club is a paper authored by EDCRN’s co-principal investigator, Dr Karina Allen! The paper looks at the effect of early interventions on young people with eating disorders.

To read the paper, see 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40878998/

🔬This week's journal club is a paper by James Downs, a member of our Lived Experience Steering Committee, and Clive Kelly, with some fascinating insights into Anorexia Nervosa in males. To see the full paper, see here 👉 www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10....

This week's journal club features a paper from our excellent colleague and PhD researcher, Saakshi Kakar, in which she conducted a large-scale analysis of under-recognised weight loss behaviours in individuals with eating disorders.

🚨 Exciting news 🚨

Our paper on the development of the EDCRN dataset, created through consensus-building workshops, has now been published! 🎉The team held two workshops to agree on the information that should be collected in the dataset. Find out our consensus activities below🧵👇

📚 For our next EDCRN journal club, authored by a member of our Lived Experience Advisory Board, we read about the PEACE Pathway – an autism-informed approach to ED care.

A privilege to be back in Parliament this week for an event organised as part of the APPG on Eating Disorders with @hopevirgo.bsky.social and @werahobhouse.bsky.social.

A wonderful opportunity to chat about EDCRN @edgiuk.bsky.social and the importance of continued investment in ED research.

💙 It's Eating Disorder Awareness Week! 💙Learn more about how the EDCRN is helping those affected by eating disorders. 🧵👇

💬 Want to make a difference in eating disorder research?

Join the EDCRN Youth Advisory Board (delivered by the wonderful team at @beatedsupport.bsky.social !) and use your lived experience to improve treatments, shape care, and help others on their recovery journey. 🌟

🚨 We’re Hiring! 🚨

Join the EDCRN as a Research Assistant (Data) at King’s College London! 📊

✅ Postgrad in genetics/data science/psychology or undergrad + experience
✅ Experience with R/similar tools
✅ Clinical data management knowledge

📆 Start: April 2025 | 📍 London
🔗 Apply: Link in Bio

📢 Join us for the EDCRN launch webinar!

🗓 13th Jan 2025
⏰ 12:00–14:00 GMT
💻 Online via Teams

💡 Key Topics:
✨ EDCRN vision & motivations
✨ Insights from caregivers & lived experience
✨ How services can get involved
✨ Q&A session
📩 Register now: forms.office.com/e/ZuHS2fbFGm