Blogs & Op-eds

• Millian-Dollar Smiles - The Normalisation of Cosmetic Smiles - Psychology Today (April 2025)

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• Bustles and Butt Lifts: What Won’t We Do for Beauty? - Psychology Today (April 2024)

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• Making Up to Make the Grade - Psychology Today (March 2024)

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• Social Media and Unrealistic Beauty Ideals - Psychology Today (January 2024)

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• Will Weight-Loss Drugs Change Our Ideal Bodies? - Psychology Today (October 2023)

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• AI confirms our unrealistic body ideals - Psychology Today (May 2023)

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• To resist the rising demands of beauty, we should start by abstaining from body shame - ABC Australia (June 2022)

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• #EverydayLookism – Body Image As A Public Health Issue – Beauty Demands (March 2021)

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• How the Global Beauty Ideal Pressures Women to Be "Perfect" – Psychology Today (February 2021)

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• Dad Bods and Six Packs: Are We All to be Looked at Now? – Psychology Today (February 2021)

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• Eat and Be Merry, for Tomorrow We Diet! – Psychology Today (January 2021)

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• Beauty without the Beast: Can we learn from Lockdown? – Beauty Demands (August 2020)

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• Body Image in Lockdown – Psychology Today (April 2020)

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• Better Body, Better Self? Why so many people are likely to undergo plastic surgery in the new year – Beauty Demands (January 2020)

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• “Girls who wear make-up are fake”: #everydaylookism stories tell us that we may never get it right - Psychology Today (January 2020)

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• “I can’t believe you don’t have a thigh gap”: #everydaylookism and why we should be ashamed to body shame - Psychology Today (January 2020)

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• “Ew, your legs are so hairy”: On #everydaylookism and the normalisation of the hairless body - Psychology Today (January 2020)

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• ​Be ashamed of body shaming - Psychology Today (January 2020)

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• New Year, New You? Why We Think a Better Body Will Be a Better Self - The Conversation (January 2020)

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• Join the #everydaylookism Campaign - Psychology Today (November 2019)

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• What's Wrong with Body Positivity? - Psychology Today (July 2019)

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• ​​Plastic Perfection: Wanting the "Love Island" Body - Psychology Today (June 2019)

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• ​​How Positive is Body Positivity? - Psychology Today (April 2019)

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• ​Januhairy: Liberation within limits – Psychology Today (Jan 2019)

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• My Body, My Self? - Psychology Today (January 2019)

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• Improve Your Body, Improve Yourself? – Psychology Today (January 2019)

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• Fantastic Beasts – experts explain the mysterious real life questions behind JK Rowling’s magic tales - The Conversation (November 2018)

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• Dying for the Perfect Butt - why is There a Rising Demand for the Deadliest Cosmetic Procedure? - Psychology Today (October 2018)

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• Aspirational Bodies and the Pressures to be Perfect – Psychology Today (October 2018)

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• A Duty to Be Beautiful? – Psychology Today (July 2018)

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• Body Hair is Natural - Society Thinking Otherwise is Dangerous - Time (June 2018)​

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• If You Want to Lose Weight, Ask Yourself: is This Really Self-Improvement? - The Conversation (January 2018)

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• Beauty’s neglected harms – Beauty Demands (December 2017)

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• Weinstein, philosophy and structures of abuse - iai News (November 2017)

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• How the Duty to be Beautiful is Making Young Girls Feel Like Failures - The Conversation (June 2017)

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• Pressures to be perfect! – Beauty Demands (October 2016)

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• Variations on a beauty theme: the uses of ‘normal’ – Beauty Demands (December 2015)

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• Beauty Ideals: An Emerging Global Norm? – Beauty Demands (October 2015)

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• Advertisements for Cosmetic Surgery and Beauty Practices – Beauty Demands (June 2015)

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• ​Why Beauty Matters – Beauty Demands (May 2015)