Thank you for ‘embracing’ body image research

Name: Flinders Foundation
Address: 3 Flinders Drive, Bedford Park, South Australia, 5042, AU
Telephone: (08) 8204 5216
Price range: $

Posted 25 Mar 2024

Research

Flinders Foundation has partnered with The Embrace Collective, led by renowned Australian of the Year 2023, Taryn Brumfitt, to support critical body image research in Flinders University’s Embrace Impact Lab.

📷 Left to right: Catherine Johnson, Ivanka Prichard and Pip Granfield

Overseen by body image researcher Associate Professor Ivanka Prichard, the Lab is dedicated to empowering young Australians to embrace body appreciation. Generous support is funding a research assistant position, taken up by Dr Jamie-Lee Pennesi, to gather and assess data around the impact the EMBRACE KIDS film has on body image, mental health and overall wellbeing in Years 7 and 8 students.

Support for this type of intervention and prevention research provides us with a wonderful opportunity to be able to shape the lives of young people and to improve physical and mental outcomes in the community.

Associate Professor Ivanka Prichard

Thank you!

Thanks to your kindness, patients and their families can receive improved care and the inspiring researchers at Flinders can continue to work tirelessly to find cures and discover effective treatments.