Laura E. Fischer

Laura E. Fischer

Laura is the Founder & CEO of Traumascapes, a survivor-led organisation dedicated to changing the ecosystem of trauma and creating new horizons for survivors through art and science. Located at the intersection of art, mental health, and activism, Laura’s work employs survivor-led methodologies and engages with experiences of violence and articulations of trauma while embracing hope as a form of resistance. Her research explores the embodied experience of trauma and creative body-based approaches to healing, and her art practice focuses on the reclaiming and rewriting of the sociocultural narrative of trauma on survivors’ own terms.

Laura is also Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King’s College London, Visiting Lecturer on the MASc Creative Health at UCL, and Visiting Lecturer on the MSc Creative Arts and Mental Health at Queen Mary University of London. She serves on the Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee for ATTUNE at the University of Oxford and the Editorial Advisory Board of The Lancet Psychiatry. Laura has published, presented, and exhibited extensively, and her work is held in the Central Saint Martins Museum Collection. She trained with the Ballet de la Côte in Switzerland and completed a BA (Hons) Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins, MSc Creative Arts and Mental Health at QMUL, Higher Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies at the Justice Resource Institute, an Improvement Leader Fellowship by NIHR CLAHRC NWL, and soon a PhD in Psychology at King’s College London.

Website:

www.laurafischer.org

www.traumascapes.org

Social media:

@l.e.fischer

@traumascapes