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We are delighted to invite you to SRSH's annual conference, to be held in Wadham College, University of Oxford, on Saturday 5th November 2011. 

SRSH is a charity that works to support university students to set up and run peer support groups for sudents at their university who suffer from eating disorders. The project is supported by B-eat, the leading UK charity for people with eating disorders, and has in this past year received funding from Comic Relief, the Welton Foundation and UnLtd. For more information about SRSH go to  www.srsh.co.uk

This conference will provide a valuable opportunity to expand your knowledge about the nature of eating disorders and how they may best be treated. Our influential speakers will be able to give you an insight into the most up-to-date reseach. The conference is aimed at individuals who work with students in a university setting, as well as to students themselves and any other interested parties.

We very much hope that you will be able to join us. If you have any questions then please don't hesitate to contact Hannah Tickle -  

Speakers  (please note that this may change if circumstances beyond our control arise):

• Deborah Waller - GP with special interest in Eating Disorders, member of the Oxford University Student Health Committee and member of the management committee for the Oxford University counselling service. 
• Linette Whitehead - Consultant Clinical Psychologist wroking at Cotswold House Eating Disorder Service at the Warneford Hospital, Oxford, and Manager of the Community Eating Disorders Team.
• Helen Sharpe - working in the Institute of Psychiatry, London, and designing a school-based prevention programme for eating disorders that will be piloted this October, with a particular interest on peer influences on the development of eating disorders. 
• Lucy Serpell, Clinical Psychologist for the Eating Disorder Service in NE London, head of the Eating Disorder Resources website: edr.org.uk 
• Felicity Cowdrey (University of Oxford), Doro Kluczniok (University of Oxford) and Radha Kothari (UCL), 3 PhD students who will give short presentions on their current research in the field of eating disorders

Other speakers TBC

Travel to Wadham College:  http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about-wadham/getting-to-wadham/finding-wadham.html

WHAT :  Poster Oxford With Student Run Self Help
WHY :    Of nearly 300 students who have personally had an eating disorder or had a friend who has had an eating disorder, less than 50% felt they knew where to turn for support. SRSH can offer the support that they needed.
WHEN :  Eating Disorders Awareness Week (21st of February)
HOW :   Create an army of students who believe that things can be different : we can improve the lives of students affected by eating disorders.

1. Meet the SRSH team at 5.30pm on the 15th of February (a Tuesday) in the Lodge of Brasenose College .
   
2. Collect a handful of posters.
   
3. Put your name down to target one of our recommended locations
   

All we are asking is an hour of people's time. One hour won't get anyone very far, but if you can give one hour of your time to visiting various haunts in oxford and putting up a handful of posters, it is a start. If we can get ten people involved, that is 10 hours, if we can get 50 people involved, that is 500 hours...

So put the date in your diary & tell everyone you know because we CAN make a difference.
visit www.srsh.co.uk for more information about the project

Okinaga Room, Wadham College 6pm
Tuesday the 16th November.

Join a panel discussion organised as part of the Gender Equality Festival to talk discuss the issue of Eating Disorders
More information:

Some thoughts on gender and Eating Disorder:

  Self-immolation And Hunger ¦ Naomi Wolf

There is a disease spreading. It taps on the shoulder America’s firstborn sons, its best and brightest. At its touch, they turn away from food. Their bones swell out from receding flesh. Shadows invade their faces. They walk slowly, with the effort of old men. A white spittle forms on their lips. They can swallow only pellets of bread, and a little thin milk. First tens, then hundreds, then thousands, until among the most affluent families, one young son in five is stricken. Many are hospitalized, many die....