Eating Disorders and Real-Life Reading

18 March 2015

This study, run by a researcher at the University of Oxford in partnership with the eating disorders charity Beat, is investigating the connections between disordered eating and fiction-reading. The current phase of the study involves a survey which asks you about your reading habits and how these relate to some aspects of your mood and habits relevant to your mental health.

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Ethical approval

The study has been approved by the University of Oxford’s Central University Research Ethics Committee (CUREC ethics reference: MSd-IDREC-C1-2014-219).

About the researcher

The lead researcher on the study is Dr Emily T. Troscianko, a postdoctoral research fellow at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, part of the University of Oxford. She is working with the eating disorders charity Beat to improve our understanding of how reading may affect mental health, specifically disordered eating.