PhD

Liam Cahill (pronouns: he/him/his) is a PhD student at Nottingham Trent University School of Psychology. His research is broadly interested in exploring body image concerns among people who identify as LGBTQ+, with a specific interest in addressing how body image concerns may negatively influence quality of life, which is a subclinical indicator for wellbeing. He is also particularly keen on exploring these issues using experimental methodologies and with a focus on using advanced statistical approaches. In the past, he secured British Psychological Society funding to create a new implicit measure of identifying body image concerns among cisgender men (including LGBTQ+ cisgender men). Before pursuing his PhD, Liam has been involved in a variety of research assistant/associate roles and has worked as a clinical research assistant/data scientist within the NHS Eating Disorder Unit. In addition to this, in the past year, Liam has collaborated as a research associate with Prof Daragh McDermott and Dr Beth Jones investigating the influence that traditional gender norms have on attitudes towards the trans and gender diverse community.