Portrait of Laura Fischer drawing
Portrait of Laura Fischer giving a talk

Exhibitions, Screenings, Performances

2023 Film Screening, The Survivor Lens, Whitechapel Gallery, Glasgow, UK

2023 Film Screening, On Survivors’ Terms, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK

2022 Exhibition (group), T.R.A.U.M.A., King’s College London, London, U

2019 Exhibition (group), Traumatised Selves: A Collective Voice, Willesden Gallery, London, UK

2019 Film Screening, Trauma and Resistance, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

2018 Film Screening, Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, Glasgow, UK

2018 Film Screening, Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal

2018 Film Screening, national television, Switzerland

2017 Exhibition (solo), The Traumatised Self, Willesden Gallery, London, UK

2017 Exhibition (duo), The Character of Physical Law, Willesden Gallery, London, UK

2017 Exhibition (solo), The Traumatised Self, MRC SDGP Centre, KCL, London, UK

2017 Exhibition (group), Central Saint Martins Museum, London, UK

2017 Film Screening, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

2016 Performance, Royal Albert Hall outreach program, Royal Albert Hall, London, UK

2016 Film Screening & Live Score, Silence is Screaming, with London Sinfonietta Orchestra, Southwark Playhouse, London, UK

2016 Exhibition (trio), Focal Perception, ArtMoorHouse, London, UK

2015 Film Screening & Live Score, Winking Through The Gardens, with London Sinfonietta Orchestra, BFI, London, UK

2015 Exhibition (group), Femme, 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2014 Performance, O&O, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

2013 Performance, Toynbee, Toynbee Studios, London, UK

2013 Exhibition (group), Waters, 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2013 Exhibition (group), Central Saint Martins, London, UK

2011 Performance, Rodin, Théatre de Beausobre, Morges, Switzerland

2010 Exhibition (solo), Body Language, Metropolis, Morges, Switzerland

2010 Performance, Maupassant, Temple, Morges, Switzerland

2010 Performance, Ballet de la Côte, Théatre de St Prex, St Prex, Switzerland

2009 Performance, Festival de la Danse, St Prex, Switzerland

2008 Exhibition (solo), Body Language, Le Tempo, Yverdon, Switzerland

2005 Exhibition (solo), Body Language, Art Gallery Casamundo, Morges, Switzerland

Conferences Presentations & Talks

2024 Speaker, Centre for Society and Mental Health Festival, Science Gallery, London, UK

2024 Speaker, ECNP Congress, Milan, Italy

2023 Speaker, Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, webinar

2023 Speaker, National Trauma-Informed Conference, Newcastle, UK

2023 Speaker, NHS National Lived Experience Conference, London, UK

2023 Speaker, National Trauma-Informed Conference, Newcastle, UK

2023 Speaker, Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network Event, VAMHN, webinar

2022 Speaker, Sounding the Voices, Resonance FM, UK

2022 Speaker, Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network Event, VAMHN, webinar

2022 Speaker, ECNP Congress, Vienna, Austria

2022 Speaker, ATTUNE Scientific Meeting, University of Oxford, webinar

2022 Panellist, Peer Research Methods with Survivors of Modern Slavery, Survivor Alliance, webinar

2022 Speaker, Annual Scientific Meeting, NIHR School for Public Health Research, webinar

2022 Panellist, Centre for Society and Mental Health Festival, Science Gallery, London, UK

2021 Panellist, Lived Experience in Peer Review, The Lancet, webinar

2021 Speaker, Annual Scientific Meeting, NIHR School for Public Health Research, webinar

2021 Speaker, Annual Conference, Public Health England, webinar

2021 Speaker, Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network Event, VAMHN, webinar

2021 Speaker, Youth mental health and COVID-19, Emerging Minds / The Centre for Society and Mental Health, webinar

2020 Speaker, Mad Hearts: The Arts and Mental Health, Queen Mary University of London, webinar

2020 Speaker, Understanding Violence, Abuse and Mental Health, VAMHN, webinar

2020 Panellist, Mental Health Question Time: Should culture be prescribed on the NHS?, London, UK

2019 Plenary Speaker, Royal College of Psychiatrist Annual Conference for NW England, Nottingham, UK

2019 Speaker & Panellist, Vulnerability and Resistance Symposium, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

2019 Keynote Speaker, Brunel Occupational Therapy Conference, Brunel University, London, UK

2019 Plenary Speaker, Wellbeing Event, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK

2018 Plenary Speaker, Journée Romande des Soins Infirmiers, healthcare conference, Lausanne, Switzerland

2018 Keynote Speaker, The Bigger Picture: Activism, Social Practice & Art, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

2018 Keynote Speaker, Sheffield Healthcare Improvement Event, Sheffield NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK

2018 Panellist, Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, Glasgow, UK

2018 Speaker & Panellist, MCA Expo, Sheffield, UK

2018 Plenary Speaker, Collaborative Learning Event, NIHR CLAHRC NWL, London, UK

2017 TEDx Talk Speaker, The Happy Generation, TEDxULB, Brussels, Belgium

2017 Speaker, Future Citizen Innovation Series, Amazon WS, London, UK

2016 Speaker, Kent Mental Health Festival, Folkestone, UK

Publications

Fischer et al. (2024). ‘Breaking boxes: Announcing the Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Lived Experience in Mental Health Research’, The Lancet Psychiatry.

Fischer et al. (2024). ‘The Living Archive of Survivorhood of Trauma’, The Lancet Psychiatry.

Fischer et al. (2024) Survivor Research Framework. Available at: https://www.survivorresearch.org/

Pinfold, Thompson, Lewington, et al. (2023). ‘Public perspectives on inequality and mental health: A peer research study’, Health Expectations.

Ahuja, Phillips, Smartt, Khalid, Coldham, Fischer, et al. (2023). ‘What interventions should we implement in England's mental health services? The Mental health Implementation Network (MHIN) mixed-methods approach to rapid prioritisation’, Frontiers in Health Services.

Dykhoorn, Osborn, Fischer, et al. (2023). ‘Measuring social exclusion and its distribution in England’, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

Dykxhoorn, Fischer, et al. (2022). ‘Conceptualising Public Mental Health: Development of a conceptual framework for public mental health,’ BMC Public Health.

Chevous, Fischer, Perôt, Sweeney (2020). ‘Safe, Seen, Supported: How to reach and help children and young people experiencing abuse in their household’, VAMHN.

Duncan et al. On behalf of the NIHR SPHR Public Mental Health Programme. (2020). ‘Delivery of community centred public mental health interventions in diverse areas in England: a mapping study protocol’, BMJ Open.

Fischer, L. (2019). ‘Trauma-Focused Movement Language’, The Lancet Psychiatry, 6(12), pp.991-993.​​

Fischer, L. (2019). ‘Violence and Trauma: A societal reality we are all responsible for’, in Perriman, B. Doorways. London: House Sparrow Press, pp.96-103.

​Matthews, Green, Myron, French, Barber, Dionne, Sandra, Fischer (2019). ‘Connections: the power of learning together to improve healthcare in the UK,’ Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.129-167.

Fischer, L. (2018). ‘Amygdala,’ in Poésie en Mouvement, Arythmie, pp. 54-57.

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