Prof. Emma Boyland
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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.
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September 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
📢 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...
September 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Happy to be speaking at this ZPS conference today in the beautiful city of Ljubljana
September 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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
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
June 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
ECO25 is a go 😃 @easoobesity.bsky.social
May 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Happy to be on the #NorthInnovationWomen list for #IWD2025. Congratulations to all, especially my UoL colleagues 👏
March 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A nice few days in beautiful Malaga, putting together an excellent scientific programme for the European Congress on Obesity here in May 🇪🇦
February 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Got new important findings that weren't available by the standard abstract deadline? Good news - the late breaking abstract submission is now open for #ECO2025
@easoobesity.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
January 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Brilliant to welcome @universityofleeds.bsky.social colleagues to @livuni-iph.bsky.social today to see our facilities (appetite labs and Digital Innovation Facility) and plan some collaborative projects
December 6, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Just for the record: I've analysed hundreds of thousands of ads in my time, from all sorts of media and settings. Number of porridge and crumpets ads could be counted on one hand...
December 5, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Come on, people "submit yoir Abstarct"! 😆
November 29, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Some enjoyable sciencing in Palma de Mallorca this week at the EASO ECN Winter School - had a good session on the commercial determinants of health 👍
November 15, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Some delightful sciencing in Belgium (Ghent and Leuven) this week 👌
October 12, 2024 at 5:56 PM
A good bit o' sciencing (and goulash) in Budapest for the EASO Masterclass in the Prevention and Management of Obesity.

Nice of my suitcase to join me for a few hours at least 🤦🏼‍♀️
September 19, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Great to see so many interested and engaged students (and parents!) at the @LivUniPsyc applicant discovery day today! My 12 year old came along to my sample lecture and said afterwards she enjoyed it and was proud of me 🥹
April 20, 2024 at 2:05 PM