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I am a PhD student with a multi-disciplinary profile at the intersection between health and social science. My educational background is in Public Health and Sociology, and I am particularly interested in psychosocial aspects of chronic illness and overweight. Most of my previous work has centred around diabetes management and prevention, including projects related to culturally sensitive diabetes education and health promotion among people with mental illness.

In my PhD project I explore the stigmatisation of type 2 diabetes, focusing on its relation to weight bias, and its manifestation within Danish healthcare settings. Trained in both quantitative and qualitative methods, I employ a mixed-methods approach, using semi-structured interviews as well as survey and register data. In the final phase of the project, I plan to collaborate with healthcare professionals and people living with diabetes to co-design a healthcare-based intervention aimed at reducing stigma and/or its harmful consequences.

My current collaborators include the Department of Prevention, Health Promotion and Society at Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen as well as the Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes (ACBRD), an internationally leading centre for psychosocial diabetes research, including diabetes stigma research. The project is supported by a grant from the Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy (DDEA).