Pippa Tollow
@pippatollow.bsky.social
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
Preparedness and support found to be strongly linked to lower distress.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@car-uwe.bsky.social
A mixed methods study investigating patient's initial experiences after acquiring a surgical scar, burn injury, and/or amputation - Philippa Tollow, Georgia Mouhlen, Maia Thornton, 2025
Introduction Experiences of seeing an altered appearance for the first time can have an important influence on an individual's psychological wellbeing, the...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
📖 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.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@car-uwe.bsky.social
Preparedness and support found to be strongly linked to lower distress.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@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
Peer support for individuals affected by alopecia areata: Understanding best practice - Studentship opportunities | UWE Bristol
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June 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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...
June 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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!
June 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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!
The The British Psychological Society has featured Appearance Matters: The Podcast! by the Centre for Appearance Research in their publication, The Psychologist. This is in recognition of the podcast’s 100th episode & 10 years of research of appearance-related issues. bit.ly/3FWfT8x7
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June 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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!