@pippatollow
Health Psychologist/Senior Lecturer/Senior Research Fellow @ UWE Bristol. Researching appearance altering conditions, inc. cancer, burns and terminal illness (Centre for Appearance Research). Consistently overwaters houseplants.
📖 New paper! Patients’ first experiences viewing their altered appearance after surgical scars, burns or amputation (building on prev research in burns/breast cancer).
Preparedness and support found to be strongly linked to lower distress.
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@car-uwe.bsky.social
Come do a PhD at the Centre for Appearance Research! Funded by Alopecia UK, full-time PhD on "Peer support for individuals affected by alopecia areata: Understanding best practice", supervised by Dr Fabio Zucchelli, Dr Kerry Montgomery and myself. Applications close 13/07! go.uwe.ac.uk/alopeciaphd
Do you provide psychological support for people with appearance-altering conditions in the UK? We want to hear from you! Please take part in our 15-minute online survey exploring online versus face-to-face psychological support for individuals with a visible difference go.uwe.ac.uk/visiblediffe...
Great to be back at #DHPConf this week after a few years away - amazing to catch up with old friends, meet new people, and see all the amazing health psychology being done! Diolch Cardiff!
100 episodes of the Appearance Matters podcast! 👏🎉 In awe of my wonderful colleagues @car-uwe.bsky.social who put this together every month - an incredible resource for clinicians, lecturers, researchers, students, and anyone interested in appearance research... and great listening!