Anna Rose

Anna (they/them) is a late-identified neurodivergent, queer dietitian with lived experience of a restrictive eating disorder. They are a Senior Teaching Fellow at Bond University and are also currently undertaking a PhD exploring how neurodivergent children and their families make sense of their experiences receiving neuronormative nutrition, feeding and eating guidance and/or eating disorder interventions.

Anna is a passionate advocate for neurodiversity affirming nutrition and eating disorder care, delivering professional development training, providing specialist clinical supervision, and consulting as a lived experience expert on a range of eating disorder research and policy projects. In their time as a founding board member of Eating Disorders Neurodiversity Australia (2022-2024), Anna co-authored the influential technical report Eating Disorders and Neurodivergence: A Stepped Care Approach (2023), commissioned by Australia’s National Eating Disorders Collaboration, that argued for a radical rethink of normative eating disorder care.

When not working, Anna can be found spending time with her two kids, enjoying the beach, reading, or on the closest dancefloor.