PiBI Draft Programme
Perspectives in Body Image (PiBI)
International Online Conference
16th-18th Sept 2025
PROGRAMME (draft)
All times in British Summer Time (BST), all sessions are held online (Zoom), other activities on Gather Town.
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DAY 1
Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
12:30 pm: Welcome
12:40 pm: PLENARY:
Tracy Tylka, Positive body image: Twenty years of advances and charting paths forward
13:40 pm: Break
14:00 pm: PARALLEL TALKS: Sessions 1&2
| Appearance ideals & constructs: 14.00: Ana Maria Chamorro Coneo, From mantas to makeovers: the impact of Western beauty norms on Wayuu people’s body image; 14.20: Megan Sutton, Patterns of weight-related body image constructs & physical activity: a latent profile analysis; 14:40: Ssanyu Kayser, ‘Culturally, straight hair was promoted’: black and mixed-race Ugandan women’s self-perceptions of their natural hair; 15:00: Carolina Andrea Molina Palencia, Cross-cultural comparison of body image and the internalization of aesthetic ideals in youth from Colombia, Argentina, the United Kingdom, and Indonesia; 15:20: Tran Tran,‘You look fatter than before’ – A qualitative study about Vietnamese women’s experience of weight comments. Sexual-, gender-, and neuro-diversity: 14:00: Phaedra Longhurst,Body appreciation mediates the association between satisfaction with autistic identity and flourishing in autistic adults; 14:20: Taryn Myers, Predictors of body appreciation and muscle dysmorphia in gender expansive individuals; 14:40: Luke Tacconelli, Minority stress, gender congruence, body appreciation and trait resilience in the transgender and gender diverse population; 15:00: Charlie Greenall, Understanding eating in autism: future research priorities identified by autistic adults; 15:20: Smridhi Marwah, Women’s bodies, women’s voices: feminist poststructuralist insights across sexual orientations. |
15:40 pm: Break
16:00 pm: SPEED TALKS: Session 3
| 16:00: Emily Horton, Building body image from the ground up: play therapy as early intervention; 16:08: Marley Billman Miller, The moderating role of functional appreciation on the relation between identity acceptance and body dissatisfaction among transgender and gender-diverse adults; 16:17: Nicholas Johnson, Exploring the ‘perfect man’: a qualitative exploration of the appearance ideal; 16:25: Zach Staffell, Preoccupation with muscularity and engagement in muscle-building behaviour in Canadian university students; 16:34: Sarah E. Ryan, The role of pride in positive body image: distinguishing between authentic and hubristic facets; 16:42: Samantha Adler, Against the current: exploring adolescent swimmers’ experiences challenging and conforming to sociocultural norms; 16:51: Hayden J. Peel, Neural correlates of body size estimation using 3D avatar manipulation. |
17:00 pm: Break
17:20 pm: TALKS: Session 4
| Early evening talks 1: 17:20: María Luz Scappatura, An exploration of finding one’s clothing size with body image and eating disorder behaviours among Argentine adolescents: a mixed-method study; 17:40: Grace Barker, In the pursuit of beautiful: understanding attitudes towards cosmetic procedures, a new scale; 18:00: Vani Kakar, Social media, appearance comparisons and their links with body image and disordered eating: a cross-cultural study of adolescent girls in Australia, China, India, and Iran; 18:20: Alanise Dolly, Body image disturbance is linked with eating disorder symptoms and psychological well-being in young women from Peru; 18:40: Lynda Boothroyd, Sociocultural predictors of interest in risky appearance altering behaviours across 4 countries. |
19:00 pm: Dinner break
20:00 pm: POSTER Session (in Gather Town)
21:00 pm: Close of day 1
DAY 2
Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
07:40 am: TALKS: Session 5
| Early morning talks 1: 07:40 Gemma Sharp, Establishment of an international consortium for research in eating disorders (CoRe-ED): analysis of early-stage participant involvement and expectations; 08:00: Lauren Conboy, Co-designing digital body image interventions: integrating lived experience and mental health expertise; 08:20: Cristian Di Gesto, Exploring the relations between compassion flows and couple satisfaction in postpartum women: the mediating role of functionality appreciation; 08:40: Nadia Maalin & Joel Bates, The moderating and mediating role of body image in LGBTQIA+ minority stress and depression. |
09:00 am: Break
09:20 am: SPEED TALKS: Session 6
| 09:20: Rhea Milson, Online sexual harassment, disordered eating attitudes and body shame in young women; 09:28: Phoebe Gray, Spot me: exploring experiences of body talk between personal trainers and their women clients; 09:37: Christina Louise Packer, Predicting positive body image in mid-life women: the role of perceived body acceptance from others, internalisation of societal appearance ideals, intuitive eating, self-compassion, and physical activity; 09:44: Paolo Mancin, Nature for body Image: exploring how spending time in nature could foster positive body image in young women; 09:54: Joshua Francis, A prospective scale for measuring appearance-based comparisons across the school transition; 10:02: Erin Vinoski Thomas, #DisabledAndCute: exploring the intersections of disability representation, activism, and positive body image on Instagram; 10:11: Fidan Turk, A meta-analysis of disordered eating and its association with social comparison-related concepts. |
10:20 am: Break
10:40 am: TALKS: Session 7
| Eating disorders: 10:40: Verity Pratt, A continuously cumulating meta-analysis of the relationship between perfectionism and orthorexia in exercisers; 11:00 Turkcan Tugba, How dieting history shapes body image perception and eating behaviours; 11:20 Jade Portingale, Seeing the self through another’s face? Enfacement illusion responses in women with and without eating disorders; 11:40: Rebecca Boehme, TMS treatment for anorexia nervosa: effects on neural body image processing and clinical outcome measures; 12:00: Elizabeth Evans, Predictors of eating disorder symptoms and negative body image in girls aged 9-11 years: a 2-year longitudinal study. |
12:20 pm: Lunch
13:40 pm: PARALLEL TALKS: Sessions 8&9
| Stigma and intersectionality: 13:40: Georgina Burton, Body image experiences in people with disabilities; 14:00: Paula Sozza, Healthcare experiences and internalized weight stigma: a comparison across BMI classifications; 14:20: Sophie Pringle, Examining same-gender objectification, fit ideal internalization, and orthorexia in biracial women; 14:40: Susan Flaming Yeats, Exploring the experience of embodiment of diverse leaders; 15:00: Franziska Hartung, The hate of weight: how weight concerns impact everyday life in South Asia and the UK. Intervention: 13:40: Madison Vani, Body image guidelines for parents of youth: a scoping review and systematic evaluation of online resources; 14:00: Helena Lewis-Smith, A comic-based body image intervention for adolescents in Hindi-medium and rural Indian schools: a randomised controlled trial; 14:20: Tracey Thornborrow, Developing a parent programme to help foster resilience against media and appearance pressures among adolescents in low- and middle-income countries; 14:40: Helen Cervera and Fabienne Andres, ‘Soy como soy’: a pilot study of a psychoeducational intervention to promote body image resilience among Colombian adolescents; 15:00: Pranita Shrestha, One size (doesn’t) fit all: exploring design considerations for digital body dissatisfaction interventions with underrepresented populations. |
15:20 pm: Break
15:40 pm: PLENARY: Anne Becker, title tbc.
17:00 pm: TALKS: Session 10
| Early evening talks 2: 17:00: Debora Blaso, The first look: adults’ experiences of viewing their appearance for the first time following surgery or injury; 17:20: Isabella Tremonte, What can be learned from two decades of qualitative research? A thematic synthesis of body-related experiences among female athletes; 17:40: Berenice Mahoney, Five years on: ontological (in)security and living with significant appearance concerns before, during, and ‘since’ COVID-19; 18:00: Chelsi Ricketts, Actual-ideal weight and the drive for muscularity in Jamaican male weight lifters: a polynomial regression and response surface approach; 18:20: Christian Edwards, Striving to be: an existential perspective on men’s high drive for muscularity development and sustainment. |
19:00 pm: ECR mentoring event (in Gather Town)
20:00 pm: Close of day 2
DAY 3
Thursday, September 18th, 2025
02:00 am Pacific time networking event (organised by the Consortium for Research in Eating Disorders)
07:40 am: TALKS: Session 11
| Early morning talks 2: 07:40: Emilie Mussbach, Exploring ethnicity in body image: a literature review and case study exploring South Asian parent and carer perspectives, as part of the body image and ethnicity study; 08:00: Katrina Holmes à Court, How do individuals with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) perceive their own cognition? A qualitative investigation into subjective cognition in BDD; 08:20: George Mycock, ‘I wanna live in a world where change is possible’ – Men co-designing guidance for inclusive eating, exercise, and body image outreach resources for men; 08:40: Ruth Kaziga, Navigating beauty ideals: the intersection of traditional and western standards in shaping body image among young Banyankore women in southwestern Uganda. |
09:00 am: Break
09:20 am: TALKS: Session 12
| 12. Social media: 09:20: Elizabeth Daniels, Si po ndiheni?: social media, body image and mental health among Albanian young women; 09:40: Shanta Ramdass, The relationship between problematic social media use, depressive symptomology and self-esteem among Caribbean university students; 10:00: Veya Seekis, Cleanse, include, repeat: how reducing idealised imagery, or adding BoPo or nature content, on Instagram and TikTok can boost body image; 10:20: Tejasvi (Vi) Singh, From hashtags to needles: the psychological cost of social media beauty culture. |
10:40 am: Break
11:00 am: TALKS: Session 13
| 13. Body Perception: 11:00: Akansha Naraindas, The role of appearance comparison and body dissatisfaction in influencing passability judgements across body and non-body apertures in VR; 11:20: Martin Tovee, Perceptual body image tasks require ethnically appropriate stimuli; 11:40: Valentina Cazzato, A multi-component visual and C-tactile-mediated, gentle touch assessment of body image disturbances; 12:00: Jessica M. Alleva, Enough is enough: development of the enough is enough scale and a program to increase enough is enough among women with a negative body image. |
12:20 pm: Lunch
13:20 pm: FUTURE DIRECTIONS:
| 13:20: The future of intervention cultural adaptation 14:00: The future of developmental body image research |
14:20 pm: Closing remarks and prizes
14:40 pm: Close of the conference