Victoria Tischler
psychologist/academic/creative
surrey.ac.uk/people/victoria-tis…
Personal views only: art, mental health, and ageing
- Well done Saffron Whyton. A really useful article on dietary fibre plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/fibre-the-ov... @surreypsychology.bsky.social @plantbasednews.bsky.social
- Early start for a packed day in Nottingham: an activity session in a care home and then to Boots headquarters. Exciting project to be launched this Dementia Action Week next month!!
- The Northern Powerhouse strikes again! Commendable forward-thinking from the authorities and community groups in Manchester. Lets hope more follow - to support successful ageing across the UK. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
- Fab to participate in this creative industries and well-being event. Thank you to the Nigerian British Chamber of Commerce for the invite.
- A really powerful event, one that statutory mental health services should take note of.
- Full house. Patrick Vallance at World Dementia Council Congress
- With Sara Trevelyan at By the Well. A restorative and inspiring pop-up therapeutic community in the magical Coed Hills. Thank you Compassionate Mental Health for inviting me to be part of such a special event
- En route to By the Well in the beautiful Welsh countryside. I’ll be sharing work on creativity and mental health, inspired by the life and legacy of Mary Barnes compassionatementalhealth.co.uk/events/by-th...
- I’ve had push back from some care home managers about bringing children in. I witness joy and reciprocy! Well done Alive and Lullaby Circle www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Brilliant to present alongside colleagues from Boots UK at the Care England conference today. I enjoyed talking about our work on olfaction, object handling and providing effective multi-sensory stimulation for people with dementia. Looking forward to future Memory Box research.
- Spring, East London.
- Pleased to have played a small part in this new text. It will ensure that more older people with dementia benefit from access to the arts and humanities. Thank you to my co-authors Charley Baker & Brian Brown. Congratulations to the editors Trini Stickle & Lorna E. Segall
- Love this! #olfaction www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
- Good Morning! 🐾
- Kudos to Andy Holden, The Grubby Mitts, Jarvis Cocker & Alexis Taylor for a brilliant fundraiser @ Bedford Esquires Supporting 3 important charities: SOBS, CHUMS & @samaritans.bsky.social #suicide #bereavement #mentalhealth
- Please support our research on perceptions of ageing, whether you are caring for someone with dementia, or you are not a carer. We'd love to hear your views. @surreypsychology.bsky.social Image c/o @ageingbetter.bsky.social Survey for carers: surreyfahs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
- Survey for for non-carers (people who have never cared and aged 50 and over): surreyfahs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
- Lovely to re-engage with this short film, featuring a collaboration between Boots UK and my research team focussing on olfactory stimulation for those with dementia. I'm delighted that we're picking this up again after a post-pandemic hiatus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShID...
- Delighted to be joining By the Well, 12-20th March. I'll be discussing the life & legacy of Mary Barnes- artist, writer & mental health activist. It promises to be an inspiring & nurturing few days in the beautiful Welsh countryside. Come join us! compassionatementalhealth.co.uk/events/by-th...
- Text should read 17-20th March!
- Sun setting at Good Shepherd Studios
- BSG abstract submission deadline extended to 31st Jan (24th Jan for symposium proposals). See here for details: www.britishgerontology.org/events-and-c...
- Post Doc opportunity on Wellcome Trust funded Antitheses project www.cultureand.org/news/post-do...
- Spread the word: stop buying menopause supplements. The benefits are unproven and they’re a waste of money. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- My heart goes out to all those impacted by the LA fires. The footage is triggering as it brings back traumatic memories of my family and I being evacuated from fires in NSW, Australia in 2019/20. 🙏🏻
- I’m happy to be volunteering for Crisis at Christmas. Please support if you can www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-at-ch...
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- Wonderful to celebrate the life of Florence Boot (1863-1952), retailer, philanthropist, & campaigner for women‘s rights. This portrait of Boot is now on long loan at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Congratulations to Sophie Clapp & the Boots UK archive team.
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- Lovely to see you too, oh, so briefly!
- Another gloomy, doom-prophet piece from Times Higher, suggesting that jobs and courses across the sector face “all-round slaughter”~ appalling language, awful imagery and needs a mental health trigger warning adding. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...
- Thanks everyone for joining, following and building a sense of community. Here‘s London at sundown last weekend, a view from Hungerford Bridge #Academicsky #Bluesky
- Support this @msf.bsky.social www.artistfundraiser.com
- Come and join us in Surrey for next year's British Society for Gerontology conference. Call for abstracts is now live. Deadline Friday 24th January 2025 #gerontology #BSG54 #care #culture #connection #change See www.britishgerontology.org/events-and-c...
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- This image Schizophrenology is by my friend Nick Blinko. Blinko is a musician & untrained artist. He came to prominence as singer/ guitar in anarcho-punk band Rudimentary Peni. His hyper-detailed artwork is known for its subversive, witty & dark content. The work was shown in PunkStone, 2024.
- FAO: news outlets- please consider the mental health impact of these announcements. University staff are living on precarious contracts, enduring rounds of redundancies and restructures #UKHigherEducation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- Thanks Amy! 🙌
- I might just post photos of artwork. Here is one of Mary Barnes' IT paintings. Barnes was an untrained artist who experienced a mental breakdown in midlife. IT were violent, dark finger-painted depictions of the psychosis that tormented her, created whilst at Kingsley Hall therapeutic community.
