Publications, Media Coverage, Conferences & Public Engagement

Published Papers

All of our published papers are freely available to everyone (open access). Links included below: 

    • Branley-Bell, D., Murphy-Morgan, C., & Malowaniec, P.D. (2025). From Paper to Pixel: Demonstrating the Power of Non-Digital Serious Games for Informing Digital Health Solutions. CHI 2025 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3719943
    • Brown, R., Murphy-Morgan, C., Downs, J., & Branley-Bell, D. (2025). A call for strategy on eating disorders: the need for a comprehensive eating disorder strategy in England and specific guidance for the remote delivery of eating disorder services. Journal of Eating Disorders, 13, 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-025-01224-y

    • Murphy-Morgan, C., Brown, R., Love, C. and Branley-Bell, D. (2024). “Some distance between us”: a UK mixed methods study exploring experiences of remote care for eating disorders during COVID-19. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1383080

    • Murphy-Morgan, C., Collingham, H., Shaddock, H., & Branley-Bell, D. (2024). “In the Only House in the Whole World but Everyone Doing the Same” Co-designed Animation as a Method of Critical Enquiry to Explore HCI Considerations for Remote Eating Disorder Support. In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 648, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3649117

    • Branley-Bell, D., Talbot, C.V., Downs, J., Figueras, C., Green, J., McGilley, B., & Murphy-Morgan, C. (2023). It’s not all about control: challenging mainstream framing of eating disorders. Journal of Eating Disorders, 11(25), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00752-9

    • Branley-Bell, D. & Talbot, C.V. (2021). “It is the only constant in what feels like a completely upside down and scary world”: Living with an eating disorder during COVID-19 and the importance of perceived control for recovery and relapse. Appetite, 167(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105596

    • Talbot, C.V. & Branley-Bell, D. (2021). #BetterHealth: A qualitative analysis of reactions to the UK government’s Better Health campaign. Journal of Health Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105320985576

    • Branley-Bell, D. & Talbot, C.V. (2020). Exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and UK lockdown on individuals with experience of eating disorders. Journal of Eating Disorders, 8(44), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-020-00319-y

 

Media

    • August 2020: People with eating disorders saw their symptoms worsen during the pandemic (Branley-Bell, D. & Talbot C.V). The Conversation. Read the full article here

 

Conference Presentations

    • International Conference on Eating Disorders (ICED) 2025 – San Antonio, USA

    • London International Eating Disorders Conference 2025 – London, UK

    • European Health Psychology Conference 2024 – Cascais, Lisbon

    • British Psychological Society (BPS) Cyberpsychology Section Conference 2024 – Liverpool, UK

    • Design4Health Conference 2024 – Sheffield, UK

    • UK-Canada Digital Communities Exchange (DComX) 2024 – Vancouver, Canada.

    • International Conference on Eating Disorders (ICED) 2024 – New York, USA

    • British Psychological Society (BPS) Cyberpsychology Section Conference 2023 – Newcastle, UK

    • Computer Human Interaction (CHI) Conference 2023 [Workshop Paper] – Hamburg, Germany

    • British Psychological Society (BPS) Cyberpsychology Section Conference 2022 – Brighton, UK

    • International Conference on Eating Disorders (ICED) 2022 – Mexico (Virtual)

 

Public Engagement

    • NU Ideas evening at the Lit & Phil, 14th December 2023. Navigating the Storm: Transforming Eating Disorder Support throughout COVID-19.

    • Beat ‘Insight Evening’ Live Public Webinar, 11th August 2020. “Living with an Eating Disorder during Lockdown”. Branley-Bell, D. & Talbot, C.V. PDF of slides available here.