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INVESTIGATOR LECTURE
Evidence and impact:
solving the body image crisis
Evidence and impact: solving the body image crisis
One of the most insidious crises of our time, ‘body image’ issues affect Australians of all ages. However, the vulnerabilities of our youngest people make them particularly susceptible to the impacts wrought by negative body image portrayals in both mainstream and social media.
The 2023 Investigator Lecture - Evidence and impact: solving the body image crisis dives deep into the history of body image issues, the impact on our youth and others, and the way forward for current and future generations.
The lecture will commence with a special keynote from 2023 Australian of the Year Taryn Brumfitt, Founder of the Body Image Movement, Leader of The Embrace Collective, bestselling author and director of documentaries Embrace and Embrace Kids.
Taryn will then be joined by a panel of experts, facilitated by highly respected journalist Jess Adamson. This intriguing panel discussion brings together Flinders University Associate Professor Ivanka Prichard, Dr Simon Wilksch - Senior Research Fellow and Clinic Director at Advanced Psychology Services and John Mannion - CEO of Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation.
Don’t miss the opportunity to find out more about this complicated, challenging and urgent crisis
Keynote:
Taryn Brumfitt
Body image activist, director, writer and speaker
Taryn Brumfitt is an award-winning filmmaker, bestselling author and internationally sought-after keynote speaker. Recently named Australian of the Year 2023, she is a fiercely passionate advocate for social change and her message has reached more than 200 million people around the world.
Taryn is the founder of the Body Image Movement, director of the inspiring documentaries EMBRACE and EMBRACE KIDS, leader of The Embrace Collective and author of four books. Her global crusade to help people embrace their bodies has seen her recognised by UN Women, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls and the Geena Davis Institute. Taryn has delivered more than 100 keynote addresses, and her talk at Google HQ in Silicon Valley was live-streamed to every Google office in the world.
In 2018, she was recognised in the Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence awards and received the SA Award for Excellence in Women's Leadership from Women and Leadership Australia. She was also crowned EY Entrepreneur of the Year, South Australia, and has been named among GE’s highest-rated speakers.
With a powerful, universal message and unwavering commitment to her cause, Taryn Brumfitt is a true force to be reckoned with.
Panel members include:
Associate Professor
Ivanka Pritchard
Director of the Embrace Impact Lab, Flinders University
Associate Professor Prichard is the Director of the Embrace Impact Lab at Flinders University with a vision to create a world where everyone is healthy and happy in their bodies. She has a background in Psychology and 20 years of research experience in the field of body image across the lifespan.
Her work focuses on identifying factors that influence body image (e.g., different social media trends), and on developing and testing evidence-based resources to promote positive body image, health behaviour and wellbeing.
Dr Simon Wilksh
Senior Research Fellow and Clinic Director at Advanced Psychology Services
John Mannion
CEO Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation
John Mannion is the inaugural Chief Executive Office of Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation – Australia’s only foundation dedicated solely to mental health research.
John’s career in mental health has spanned more than 35 years including as a practitioner, in both Mental Health Nursing and Social work as well as leading mental health services across the state and previously holding the Lead Mental Health Commissioner Role for South Australia.
John led the establishment of Breakthrough in 2018 which last year alone funded more than 20 leading research projects across all the state’s universities with a focus upon helping to creating a life free of mental illness through research to inform clinical improvements, enhanced outcomes and community connectivity.
John has a passion for normalising the mental health conversation, delivering mental health literacy programs to help drive meaningful change and continuing to expand his mental health knowledge and understanding.
Facilitator: Jessica Adamson
Journalist and Speaker
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