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The Obesity Institute at Leeds Beckett

Obesity is a highly complex disease driven by many varying factors. Therefore, providing effective solutions and support for people living with obesity requires the skills and expertise for many disciplines and sectors.

The Obesity Institute brings together these different multi-disciplinary skills drawing on the academic and professional expertise from across Leeds Beckett University and also our wider academic policy and practice partners to address these modern challenges of obesity. The institute has one clear vision to improve the lives of people living with or at risk of obesity. All our work is underpinned by our public and patient involvement and engagement hub.

This hub will ensure we have a person-centred approach to our work, so we can listen to the voices and see the impact of real lived experiences in collaboration across diverse communities. The obesity institute will continually evolve, creating accessible and inclusive programs of work in areas such as prevention, systems science, health inequalities, and treatment.

The institute will have three key areas of innovative activity: research, education and training, and knowledge exchange. Our core values are showing care, compassion, collaboration, effectiveness, equality and inclusion in everything we do. We want our work to be useful to both the wider public and the individual people that we serve and to develop a new generation of compassionate, person-centred professionals.

To find out more about the Obesity Institute and how it is changing the conversation and landscape around obesity, visit leedsbeckett.ac.uk/obesityinstitute, or follow us on our social media channels.

The Obesity Institute at Leeds Beckett University brings together academics from a range of disciplines across the university with policy makers, practitioners, and people living with or at risk of obesity and their families and carers, to coproduce innovative person-centred advances in obesity locally, nationally and internationally.

Research project

The complications of excess weight

Staff at Leeds Beckett University are part of a national team evaluating the NHS England Complications of Excess Weight (CEW) clinics. These clinics run across England and provide a holistic approach to treating conditions related to obesity in children and young people aged up to 18.

View research abstract 'Complications of excess weight' news item

Inclusion and collaboration

All our activities are co-developed with people with lived experience, working in collaboration with key policy, practice and academic partners to ensure everything we do is person-centred and addresses real world need. We continually seek to improve and promote representation, equality, diversity and inclusion.
Integrity and transparency

We foster a culture of openness, compassion and collaboration within our community, and support the rights of academic freedoms by building a community that tests received wisdom and puts forward new ideas.
Excellence and innovation

We are building on our excellence in applied obesity research and education, and seek to excite and inspire the public, our students and colleagues, with disruptive and ground-breaking research, innovation and practice.

Obesity Institute Our approach to tackling obesity

The current response in action to obesity is not working. It's time for a new approach.

The Obesity Institute is working together with people living with obesity to change the way we talk and think about obesity. We need to stamp out the stigma, weight bias, and blame that is too often experienced. We provide people living with obesity the care and support they need. To achieve this, all the work we do at the Obesity Institute is person-centred with compassion and inclusivity at our core.

It is critical to understand that obesity is a chronic complex disease driven by many factors, such as our genes, how our bodies and brains work, and the environments we live, work, and grow up in. Obesity support is required across the life course, and it is an individual and personal choice to decide when, where, and whether weight is discussed.

The Obesity Institute is addressing the modern challenges of obesity, working together with a range of different organisations and people to develop tailored approaches that promote long-term health and wellbeing. We want everyone living with obesity to feel empowered and receive the information, treatments, and support they need.

To find out more about the Obesity Institute and Obesity Voices visit leedsbeckett.ac.uk/obesityinstitute or follow us on our social media channels.