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Research Projects

in progress

  • From individual to systemic post-traumatic growth in eating disorders: A cross-national comparison to advance knowledge justice and structural transformation

  • Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and eating disorders: A scoping review

  • Interoception in trans and gender diverse people: A scoping review

  • The IncludED study: Exploring diverse eating and body image within the LGBTQIA+ community

  • Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA) position statement on exercise and eating disorder

published

  1. Eating disorder treatment outcomes of trans and gender diverse people: A systematic review

  2. Conversion Practices in Eating Disorder Treatment: A Lived Experience Narrative

  3. Towards Neurodiversity-Affirming, Co-Produced Competence Frameworks in Psychotherapy: An Autistic-Led Call to Action

  4. Partnering with people with lived experience in eating disorder research: conceptual and practical considerations

  5. ​Chest binding guidance should not be guided by non-analogous evidence: Response to Marengo and colleagues (2025)

  6. Investigation of associations between self-reported sensory processing, eating disorder symptoms, neurodivergence, and gender congruence from a lived experience lens

  7. Eating and exercise motivation and behaviors in trans and gender diverse adults: A mixed methods study

  8. Chest binding and physical function during maximal exercise (Poster)

  9. Disordered eating in autistic trans and gender diverse people: a lived experience-led scoping review

  10. The costs and benefits of ‘passing’: A systematic review of the qualitative evidence on passing for trans individuals and communities

  11. Eating and exercise experiences of Australian trans and gender diverse people: Lived experience and stakeholder perspectives

  12. Neurodivergence, intersectionality, and eating disorders: A lived experience-led narrative review

  13. A scoping review of trans and gender diverse children and adolescents’ experiences of physical activity, sport, and exercise participation

  14. Physical activity behaviours in trans and gender diverse adults: A scoping review

project wishlist

  • Interoceptive awareness as a mechanistic pathway between gender-affirming medical care and disordered eating: A prospective multi-wave cohort study

  • Impact of eating disorder treatment on gender dysphoria and minority stress

  • Co-occurrence of body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria among trans people

  • Differential diagnosis of body dysmorphia versus gender dysphoria in trans people

  • A content analysis of non-binary identity expression on Instagram

  • Non-binary identity, androgyny, and body aesthetics: A content analysis of Instagram posts

  • Floatation restricted environmental stimulation technique (Floatation-REST) as a gender-affirming intervention

  • Understanding gender dysphoria in autistic trans people: A mixed-methods exploration of embodied and sensory experience

  • Investigating the relationship between asexuality and eating pathology

  • Eating disorders, interoception, and intimacy in romantic relationships

  • Neuroimaging correlates of affirmed versus birth name recognition in trans and gender diverse people

  • Visual attention and gender perception of trans and gender diverse people by trans allies: An eye-tracking approach

  • Exploring the experiences of trans and gender diverse students at single-sex schools

  • The role of safe spaces in perpetuating anticipated stigma among trans and gender diverse people

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