The IMAGINE (body IMAGe IN sEcondary schools) study
The IMAGINE Study is a four-year longitudinal study recruiting students across Greater London to explore individual- and school-levels risk factors for body image and mental health difficulties
What is IMAGINE?
The past 20 years have seen a worrying increase in depression, anxiety, self-harm, and eating disorders among teenagers alongside large increases in body dissatisfaction. The IMAGINE study was created to better understand drivers of body dissatisfaction and poor mental health among teenagers.
Our Mission
Our mission is to improve young people’s wellbeing through co-produced research. In particular, we want to understand what individual and school-level risk factors are contributing to body dissatisfaction and mental health difficulties to design whole school interventions to reduce them.
Our Research
We are a team of researchers from the UCL Division of Psychiatry focused on studying body dissatisfaction and mental health problems such as eating disorders, depression, and self-harm in young people. Recognizing that schools are increasingly concerned about these issues, our research aims to explore various factors that could be driving these difficulties.
We hope to use the findings of this project to develop new whole-school interventions to improve young people’s wellbeing.
To find out more about the IMAGINE Study, please visit our main website:
Contact us
For more information on IMAGINE, please contact us:
Study Manager – Dr Ariana Kular
Email: a.kular@ucl.ac.uk
Telephone: 02076799815
Principal Investigator – Professor Francesca Solmi
Email: Francesca.solmi@ucl.ac.uk
Telephone: 02076799643
The IMAGINE Study is funded by the Wellcome Trust.