Prof. Emma Boyland
@emmaboyland.bsky.social
Professor of Food Marketing and Child Health, Department of Psychology.
Deputy Executive Dean, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool.
Interested in food marketing exposure, persuasive power, behavioural impact, & public health policy.
Deputy Executive Dean, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool.
Interested in food marketing exposure, persuasive power, behavioural impact, & public health policy.
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
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
September 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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
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...
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...
September 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
📢 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...
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
September 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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
Please share with your networks 👍
Please share with your networks 👍
Job Specification
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August 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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
Please share with your networks 👍
Please share with your networks 👍
Check out this Original Ideas podcast ep on our relationship with food featuring yours truly, @charlottehardman.bsky.social and @beckyevans.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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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July 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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 ?!
share.google/wsIAMLdRPM6H...
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Reposted by Prof. Emma Boyland
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.
However we do offer ideas to address these issues.
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Northern regions have some of the poorest diets in England, putting them at risk of conditions such as obesity, hypertension and other preventable diseases, according to a new report released today backed by Hairy Biker Si King www.thenhsa.co.uk/2025/07/poor...
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Northern regions have some of the poorest diets in England, putting them at risk of conditions such as obesity, hypertension and other preventable diseases, according to a new report released today backed by Hairy Biker Si King www.thenhsa.co.uk/2025/07/poor...
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July 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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.
However we do offer ideas to address these issues.
Reposted by Prof. Emma Boyland
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...
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...
July 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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...
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
June 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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) 👍
June 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If you're at ISBNPA please check out our session on digital food marketing tomorrow (3.15pm, Herald Theatre) 👍
Reposted by Prof. Emma Boyland
Lead author Prof Tim Townshend, co-authors @emmaboyland.bsky.social Prof Heather Brown, @helenjmoore.bsky.social & me
June 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Lead author Prof Tim Townshend, co-authors @emmaboyland.bsky.social Prof Heather Brown, @helenjmoore.bsky.social & me
Reposted by Prof. Emma Boyland
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/...
"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/...
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 ...
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
June 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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/...
"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
May 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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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May 22, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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
May 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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
May 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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 👏
May 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Fabulous presentations from my @livuni-iph.bsky.social colleagues @charlottehardman.bsky.social and Edi Putra at the ECO25 Environment and Policy abstract session 👏
I always have something new to think about after seeing @harryrutter.bsky.social speak 👍 #ECO25 @easoobesity.bsky.social
May 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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
May 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Excellent talk from @jeanmadams.bsky.social setting out public health challenges and opportunities - focus on the broken food system #ECO25 @easoobesity.bsky.social
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...
Children eat more after seeing just five minutes of junk food ads, study finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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’
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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...
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
May 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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
How do you solve a problem like brand advertising...?
Last year @emmaboyland.bsky.social & I had a discussion over breakfast* where we discussed our concerns about the rapidly emerging loophole of food brand ads and lack of a policy approach to address it...
*Can confirm no crumpets were consumed
Last year @emmaboyland.bsky.social & I had a discussion over breakfast* where we discussed our concerns about the rapidly emerging loophole of food brand ads and lack of a policy approach to address it...
*Can confirm no crumpets were consumed
April 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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
I'm looking forward to our ISBNPA symposium which will explore closing gaps in food marketing regulations - join us if you can! 😊
We have received a near-record 775 submissions for #ISBNPA2025. Our wonderful reviewers now have a problem of abundance :-). Looking forward to learn from your best research in #Auckland
April 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I'm looking forward to our ISBNPA symposium which will explore closing gaps in food marketing regulations - join us if you can! 😊