Associate Professor Esben Strodl
IAS Spotlight: Body Image, Eating Problems & Health
Queensland University of Technology
Esben previously worked as a clinical health psychologist in the public health system for 10 years, as well as having taught into QUT’s Master of Clinical Psychology course since 2003. He is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, a Fellow of the APS College of Health Psychologists, and a Fellow of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists.
Esben has served as the Director of the QUT Eating Disorder Clinic since 2015, and is a past state and national chair of the APS College of Health Psychologists. He currently serves an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Psychiatry and an Editorial Board member for Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.
Esben’s research interests have been broad but currently focus more on the role of metacognitive and meta-emotion beliefs in eating behaviours and psychopathology, as well as novel therapies for psychopathology (including meta-emotion therapy, probiotics, nutrition, and drama therapy using holograms). Esben has published over 130 peer reviewed journal articles/book chapters. He is a founding member of the International Academy of Body Image, Eating Problems and Health, which is currently conducting the largest ever cross-country study into the relationship between perceptions of climate change and body image, eating behaviours and mental health.
During their IAS Fellowship, Associate Professor Strodl will be collaborating with Dr Hannah White from the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences.