Current Studies

Our research suggests that people with eating disorders think it might be a helpful part of their treatment to be able to go to a virtual reality café where they could try out things they find challenging in real life cafés, such as choosing from a menu or ordering food.

We carried out a recent study gathering detailed ideas from people with experience of an eating disorder, parents/carers, and clinicians about what the café should be like, and the kinds of activities people with eating disorders might want to do in the café as part of treatment. The café is now being developed in VR, and we want to work together with people with current or recent experience of an eating disorder at each stage of the creative process. This way we are more likely to reflect the needs, concerns and hopes people have for treatment.

We want to design the virtual reality café with people from the following groups:

1. People living in the Bristol area who have experience of a current or previous eating disorder and are aged 18-25; and

2. People living in the Bristol area who have experience of a previous eating disorder and are aged 16 or 17.

To find out more about the study and to register your interest in taking part, please visit https://bit.ly/VRcafe.