Prof. Emma Boyland

FOOD ON YOUR FEED:
If you are 16-24y and use social media, please consider taking part in this study (£20 voucher available)

Scan the QR code or email olga.zhiteneva@liverpool.ac.uk

📢 Check out the SPHR health and risk communication for public health network webinar series!

I'm presenting on 24 SEPTEMBER at 12PM about how the food industry use misleading health communication to influence food behaviours.

I hope you can join, register here: sphr.nihr.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Happy to be speaking at this ZPS conference today in the beautiful city of Ljubljana

We're hiring! We have permanent Gr8 (lecturer) and Gr9 (senior lecturer) Teaching & Research posts available @livunipsyc.bsky.social. See here for more info/to apply: shorturl.at/cFFsf

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Links here:
1. www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/ori...
2. bit.ly/Orig-Ideas

Check out this Original Ideas podcast ep on our relationship with food featuring yours truly, @charlottehardman.bsky.social and @beckyevans.bsky.social

Brilliant from England women, who I'm sure have a better diet than is represented by those pitch border ads... we've seen this before somewhere haven't we @robinireland.bsky.social ?!

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Brilliant to see this important first report from our #NutritionNorth collaboration highlighting the stark dietary inequalities that exist.
However we do offer ideas to address these issues.

New MSc Neuroscience is launching in September 2026.

This programme will introduce students to the field of neuroscience through the lens of clinical disorders of the central nervous system.

Register your interest: www.liverpool.ac.uk/postgraduate...

An excellent presentation from @amyfinlay.bsky.social at #ISBNPA2025👏 @livunipsyc.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social

If you're at ISBNPA please check out our session on digital food marketing tomorrow (3.15pm, Herald Theatre) 👍

Lead author Prof Tim Townshend, co-authors @emmaboyland.bsky.social Prof Heather Brown, @helenjmoore.bsky.social & me

Hidden in plain sight: a scoping review of ‘dark kitchens’ and the potential implications for the English planning system | Town Planning Review Over the past decade, the food environment has changed dramatically. One significant change has been the evolution of online delivery, which has increasingly become associated with so-called ‘dark kitchens’ – catering operations that only offer food for ...

We have a new paper on #darkkitchens following on from our @nihr.bsky.social funded research

"Hidden in plain sight: a scoping review of ‘dark kitchens’ and the potential implications for the English planning system"

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

The Dept of Psychology @livunipsyc.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social are offering SEVEN funded part-time PhD training posts from 1 September 2025. There are associated teaching duties (eg research methods & statistics). For more info and to apply see here: tinyurl.com/yw6zy74f

Delay, delay, delay... now to January 2026 so that ministers can formally write the exemption for brand advertising into legislation

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Nat Taylor, PhD student in the Appetite and Obesity Research Group, presenting some of her PhD research at this @cancook.bsky.social meeting @livunipsyc.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social

Beautiful setting of St. Asaph's Cathedral for today's @cancook.bsky.social meeting about the future of food and why it matters

Fabulous presentations from my @livuni-iph.bsky.social colleagues @charlottehardman.bsky.social and Edi Putra at the ECO25 Environment and Policy abstract session 👏

It was so smooth I barely noticed 😉

I always have something new to think about after seeing @harryrutter.bsky.social speak 👍 #ECO25 @easoobesity.bsky.social

Excellent talk from @jeanmadams.bsky.social setting out public health challenges and opportunities - focus on the broken food system #ECO25 @easoobesity.bsky.social

Children eat more after seeing just five minutes of junk food ads, study finds Researchers call on UK government to close advertising ‘loopholes’ that are ‘driving excess calorie intake’

Great to see our study, being presented at #ECO25, getting lots of attention today @easoobesity.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social @livunipsyc.bsky.social

Children eat more after seeing just five minutes of junk food ads, study finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

ECO25 is a go 😃 @easoobesity.bsky.social

Delighted to be able to share a range of outputs from our project on brand advertising (thanks to Research England funding to UoL) - A THREAD @livunipress.bsky.social @livunipsyc.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social

Meta's Threads Begins Global Ad Rollout Within Its Feed Image-based ads will appear between pieces of content within Threads’ feed.

Image based ads will now appear between pieces of content on Threads

www.adweek.com/social-marke...

Roblox marketplace competition over how ads are purchased led at least three brands to reconsider their spend Different sellers are asserting differing visions of how to best advertise on Roblox. The debate has made some brands wary of buying.

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I'm looking forward to our ISBNPA symposium which will explore closing gaps in food marketing regulations - join us if you can! 😊

Big brands send out barrage of junk food ads before obesity rules bite Advertising on snacks rises 26% compared with last year, months before restrictions on promoting unhealthy food come into force

Big brands send out barrage of junk food ads before obesity rules bite www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

📢 A @liverpooluni.bsky.social led @nihr.bsky.social study reveals widespread presence of junk food advertising in England—with significantly higher levels in the country’s most disadvantaged communities.

Read more: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/04/09/s... #HealthInequality #FoodMarketing

📢 Our latest paper is out now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DTKYTC...

Brand-only marketing for food and alcohol influences preference, choice, and purchase intent 🧐