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The Appearance Matters Conferences
Body Image 9 (2012) 564
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The Appearance Matters Conferences
The Appearance Matters conference series is hosted by the UK’s Centre for Appearance Research (CAR) to provide a forum to highlight current research and good practice around psychosocial aspects of appearance including body image, visible difference, identity, interventions and research methods. The 5th Appearance Matters conference took place in July 2012 in the striking setting of the Wills’ Memorial Building, in the centre of Bristol in the southwest of England. Two hundred delegates from across the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Canada, and Europe included health, clinical and social psychologists, post-graduate students, researchers, academics, other health professionals and representatives of support organisations. The conference included two keynote addresses, 6 symposia, 50 individual papers and 36 research posters. The keynote speakers, Professor John Lawrence and Professor Sarah Grogan gave thought-provoking presentations on current research and future directions in burns research, and body image and health behaviours. Their presentations are available on the CAR website at http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/hls/research/appearanceresearch/newsandevents/appearancematters/appearancematters5.aspx. Other prominent themes within the programme included school-based body image interventions, body image and exercise, men’s body image, social marketing and the media, interventions to support people with an altered appearance, and attitude change. A wine reception included a theatre performance based on delegates’ feedback to a survey devised by the performers, under the gaze of two photography exhibitions depicting people with burns and a range of visible differences (“The Power of Resilience” by Suzan van de Roemer and “Perspectives” by Joanne de Nobriga and CAR). In addition, a Mentoring Breakfast gave 25 early career researchers the opportunity to meet with experts in their field, The Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Appearance (edited by Nichola Rumsey and Diana Harcourt) was launched and a new public engagement exhibit, First Impressions, developed by CAR and a renowned science centre (Explore@Bristol) was on display for the first time. The conference was supported by the charity, Changing Faces. Our sincere thanks go to all those involved in making Appearance Matters 5 such a success. Appearance Matters 6 will take place in 2014. Please contact the Centre for Appearance Research ([email protected]) to join the conference mailing list and to receive details about the next conference and the first call for abstracts, in due course. The abstracts of Appearance Matters 5 can be found online in the supplemental material to this Announcement. Appendix A. Supplementary data Supplementary data associated with this Announcement can be found, in the online version, at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.bodyim.2012.08.007.
1740-1445/$ – see front matter http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.08.007
Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect
Body Image journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/bodyimage
The Appearance Matters Conferences
The Appearance Matters conference series is hosted by the UK’s Centre for Appearance Research (CAR) to provide a forum to highlight current research and good practice around psychosocial aspects of appearance including body image, visible difference, identity, interventions and research methods. The 5th Appearance Matters conference took place in July 2012 in the striking setting of the Wills’ Memorial Building, in the centre of Bristol in the southwest of England. Two hundred delegates from across the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Canada, and Europe included health, clinical and social psychologists, post-graduate students, researchers, academics, other health professionals and representatives of support organisations. The conference included two keynote addresses, 6 symposia, 50 individual papers and 36 research posters. The keynote speakers, Professor John Lawrence and Professor Sarah Grogan gave thought-provoking presentations on current research and future directions in burns research, and body image and health behaviours. Their presentations are available on the CAR website at http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/hls/research/appearanceresearch/newsandevents/appearancematters/appearancematters5.aspx. Other prominent themes within the programme included school-based body image interventions, body image and exercise, men’s body image, social marketing and the media, interventions to support people with an altered appearance, and attitude change. A wine reception included a theatre performance based on delegates’ feedback to a survey devised by the performers, under the gaze of two photography exhibitions depicting people with burns and a range of visible differences (“The Power of Resilience” by Suzan van de Roemer and “Perspectives” by Joanne de Nobriga and CAR). In addition, a Mentoring Breakfast gave 25 early career researchers the opportunity to meet with experts in their field, The Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Appearance (edited by Nichola Rumsey and Diana Harcourt) was launched and a new public engagement exhibit, First Impressions, developed by CAR and a renowned science centre (Explore@Bristol) was on display for the first time. The conference was supported by the charity, Changing Faces. Our sincere thanks go to all those involved in making Appearance Matters 5 such a success. Appearance Matters 6 will take place in 2014. Please contact the Centre for Appearance Research ([email protected]) to join the conference mailing list and to receive details about the next conference and the first call for abstracts, in due course. The abstracts of Appearance Matters 5 can be found online in the supplemental material to this Announcement. Appendix A. Supplementary data Supplementary data associated with this Announcement can be found, in the online version, at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.bodyim.2012.08.007.
1740-1445/$ – see front matter http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.08.007