Advancing Eating Disorder Research and Recovery
Welcome! I’m Dr Amy Harrison and my research lab at University College London investigates cognitive and social emotional aspects of eating disorders
Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and other specified feeing or eating disorder are serious psychological illnesses. Our work aims to better understand the cognitive and social emotional factors that contribute to the development and perpetuation of eating disorder symptoms. We aim to translate these findings into novel interventions and prevention programmes.
Our Team
Dr Amy Harrison, Principal Investigator, Associate Professor in Psychology and Clinical Psychologist
Prof Eirini Flouri, Co-Investigator, Professor of Developmental Psychology
Dr Marta Francesconi, Lecturer in Psychology
Doctoral Students: Jane Hahn, Aisha Jawad, Meg Fairclough, Bahar Dastan
Research Assistants: Keria Herrington and Darcey Fleming
Research students: Blake Ban, Ruike Tang, Zhiya Jiao, Demi Nwadike, Li Li, Yuxin Gao and Taehun Jun