Body Image Research Lab - Media
Dr. Russell-Mayhew in the media
- This new year, consider resolutions focused on well-being instead of weight loss (2025). The Conversation https://theconversation.com/this-new-year-consider-resolutions-focused-on-well-being-instead-of-weight-loss-246151
- When we know better, we do better: A conversation about creating weight-neutral schools (2024) PHE Journal https://phecanada.ca/professional-learning/journal/when-we-know-better-we-do-better-conversation-about-creating-weight
- Shamed if we gain weight, shamed if we lose it. Body scrutiny has gone 360 (2023) The Kit https://thekit.ca/beauty/body/weight-loss-shame/
- Keeping Diet Culture Out of the Classroom (2023) Arch Magazine https://archmagazine.ucalgary.ca/keeping-diet-culture-out-of-the-classroom/
- How weight bias is harming us all (2019) The Conversation https://theconversation.com/how-weight-bias-is-harming-us-all-107352
- UCalgary researcher dissects the complexity and bias around weight and body image (2018) UCalgary News https://ucalgary.ca/news/ucalgary-researcher-dissects-complexity-and-bias-around-weight-and-body-image
- What happens to weight bias when obesity is labeled a disease? (2018) Weighty Matters: Guest Post http://www.weightymatters.ca/2018/07/guest-post-what-happens-to-weight-bias.html
- Weight bias: Another Lens on Obesity (2017) http://ucalgary.ca/explore/weight-bias-another-lens-obesity?
- Mandatory Wellness Course a Good Idea for all Faculties (2017) The Gauntlet http://www.thegauntlet.ca/mandatory-wellness-course-a-good-idea-for-all-faculties
- Rio 2016: Fashion Calgary apologizes for Caster Semenya, Margaret Wambui tweet (print and TV: August 2016) Global News http://globalnews.ca/news/2891986/rio-2016-fashion-calgary-apologizes-for-questionable-tweet/?sf33874084=1
- All Bodies Matter: How body shaming makes America less healthy. (May 2016). Deseret News National Edition http://www.deseretnews.com/article/print/865655039/All-bodies-matter-How-body-shaming-makes-America-less-healthy.html
- Werklund Researcher Gives Public Talk on Weight Bias. (January 2016) https://www.ucalgary.ca/utoday/issue/2016-01-12/werklund-researcher-gives-public-talk-weight-bias
- Academics: Body Shaming Health Minister (or anyone else) is Unacceptable (June 2015) Calgary Herald http://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/academics-body-shaming-healt...
- CBC Television (2015). Weight Bias Summit. LIVE to tape http://globalnews.ca/news/1882321/calgary-conference-tackles-albertas-weight-bias/
- QR 770 Radio (2015). Weight Bias. LIVE to tape https://soundcloud.com/newstalk770/fat-shaming?sc_ref=twitter
- Controversial Skinny Jeans for Tots Flying Off Shelves. The Star (2012).
- https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2010/08/19/controversial_skinny_jeans_for_tots_flying_off_shelves.html
- A Healthy Body Image. Today’s Parent Magazine (2009). http://www.todaysparent.com/family/parenting/a-healthy-body-image/
Graduate Students in the media
- Bathroom Scale Smashing Event at Calgary City Hall to Kick Off Eating Disorder Awareness Week - Angela Grace https://globalnews.ca/news/3219271/bathroom-scale-smashing-event-at-calg...
- Marketing to Children - Jewel Loewen https://werklund.ucalgary.ca/media-room/news-events/marketing-children
- Helpful or Harmful - Emily Williams http://werklund.ucalgary.ca/media-room/news-events/helpful-or-harmful
- Quick Chat: Academic Research and International Attitudes - Angela Alberta & Sarah Nutter https://werklund.ucalgary.ca/media-room/news-events/quick-chat-academic-...