Jill Bennett
@jilltba.bsky.social
Prof/Director, Big Anxiety Research Centre & fEEL, Felt Experience & Empathy Lab, UNSW Sydney: lived experience-led VR/immersive media/AI; creative approaches to transforming trauma; psychosocial design; aesthetics/embodiment/engagement
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#Psychoanalysis Meets Virtual Reality: Experiential event re #WorldComesAlive, a new Virtual Reality (VR) experience & the 1st underpinned & framed by psychoanalytic thinking. Thur 19 June 3-8 pm in the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust, London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/world-come... DM me for the brochure
May 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
#Psychoanalysis Meets Virtual Reality: Experiential event re #WorldComesAlive, a new Virtual Reality (VR) experience & the 1st underpinned & framed by psychoanalytic thinking. Thur 19 June 3-8 pm in the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust, London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/world-come... DM me for the brochure
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Join Jill Bennett, Gail Kenning, Lynn Froggett, Anna Harvey & me for ‘World Comes Alive’, a new Virtual Reality (VR) experience & the 1st VR app underpinned by #psychoanalytic thinking. Thursday 19 June 3 pm-8 pm in the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, London. Email n.giffney@ulster.ac.uk for info
May 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Join Jill Bennett, Gail Kenning, Lynn Froggett, Anna Harvey & me for ‘World Comes Alive’, a new Virtual Reality (VR) experience & the 1st VR app underpinned by #psychoanalytic thinking. Thursday 19 June 3 pm-8 pm in the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, London. Email n.giffney@ulster.ac.uk for info
Inspiring view of Uluru from rangers' hut @ Mutijulu, where Ngangkari (healers) of NPY Women's Council hosted a #VirtualReality workshop today! Excited to be working on a new #VR experience with Uti Kulintjaku, combining 360 cinema, shot in the Central Desert with animation of Tjulpu & Walpa story.
May 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Inspiring view of Uluru from rangers' hut @ Mutijulu, where Ngangkari (healers) of NPY Women's Council hosted a #VirtualReality workshop today! Excited to be working on a new #VR experience with Uti Kulintjaku, combining 360 cinema, shot in the Central Desert with animation of Tjulpu & Walpa story.
Can #AI address loneliness? At our Tea & Tech Cafe, we shared AI companions co-designed with older people, and with people living with #dementia. Here's the panel discussion with some great audience contributions:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=veSc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=veSc...
Can AI companions help address loneliness?
YouTube video by UNSW Community
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December 19, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Can #AI address loneliness? At our Tea & Tech Cafe, we shared AI companions co-designed with older people, and with people living with #dementia. Here's the panel discussion with some great audience contributions:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=veSc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=veSc...
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Join us at BARC in 2025! A number of exciting opportunities are open in our Transforming Trauma project, including: external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
Project Officer (Indigenous Targeted) - Big Anxiety Research Centre
The Project Officer (Indigenous Targeted) coordinates the Big Anxiety Research Centre (BARC) project, Transforming Trauma (a Medical Research Future Fund [MRFF] Indigenous award project) focused on cr...
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au
December 16, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Join us at BARC in 2025! A number of exciting opportunities are open in our Transforming Trauma project, including: external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
Wonderful to welcome so many people to our drop-in Tea & Technology Cafe 'Why Would I Want That?' - focusing on lived experience-led #AI companions with/for older people & those living with dementia. #unsw #DementiaAustralia #Dementia #AgeingFuturesInstitute #BARC #ageing #psychosocial.AI
December 13, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Wonderful to welcome so many people to our drop-in Tea & Technology Cafe 'Why Would I Want That?' - focusing on lived experience-led #AI companions with/for older people & those living with dementia. #unsw #DementiaAustralia #Dementia #AgeingFuturesInstitute #BARC #ageing #psychosocial.AI
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Thanks for the reminder of Fairbairn. And, of course, this trauma may lead the child to believe that its own love is toxic and that this is the reason that it is not loved.
The greatest trauma a child can experience.
Ronald Fairbairn.
Ronald Fairbairn.
December 12, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Thanks for the reminder of Fairbairn. And, of course, this trauma may lead the child to believe that its own love is toxic and that this is the reason that it is not loved.
So many amazing people are coming together for #TransformingTrauma - co-creating #VirtualReality experiences, led by remote and regional First Nations communities - proud to work with you all! www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
Virtual reality project healing indigenous trauma receives $2.8m MRFF grant
The funding will broaden the use of virtual reality tools which have already used to help regional communities deal with trauma.
www.unsw.edu.au
December 12, 2024 at 10:21 AM
So many amazing people are coming together for #TransformingTrauma - co-creating #VirtualReality experiences, led by remote and regional First Nations communities - proud to work with you all! www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...