Dr Amy Harrison and Dr Marta Francesconi (both IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society) have been announced as finalists for the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) 2023 prestigious Impact Prize
Established in 2022, the MRC Impact Prize recognises individuals or teams who are making outstanding contributions to health and society through their research.
Dr Harrison and Dr Francesconi are shortlisted in the Early Career Impact category based on their outstanding and impactful work on eating disorders. The category recognises early career researchers who have pioneered new approaches to enable and support research and the medical research community.
Their research, funded by the MRC, has investigated the role of decision-making skills in childhood and adolescence to better understand how eating disorders develop. The work has drawn on data from the national longitudinal Millennium Cohort Study to gain greater insights into the early signs of disordered eating before any serious disorder fully emerges.
