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Tim Buescher

Timothy Buescher

Senior Lecturer

School of Social Sciences

Staff Group(s)
Nursing and Paramedicine/IHAP

Role

Senior Lecturer - teaching and research

Teaching - hearing voices, reflective/reflexive practice, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, sociology and psychology of health, evidence-based practice, coproduction and codesign, research methodologies, qualitative research, mental health, psychosocial practice, hoarding

Module lead - Independent study CPD pathways (level 7)

Module lead - Research in nursing, health, and social care (CPD level 7)

Postgraduate supervision, MSc CPD pathways; MSc paramedicine; MA public health

Pedagogical interests - identity formation in mental health practitioners, practice cultures and theory-practice gap, mature learners, diversity

Research interests - Dr Timothy Buescher is a senior lecturer in mental health, with interests in subjective experience in mental health research, teaching, and practice. employing overtly subjective postqualitative research methodologies. In particular, autoethnography, participatory, and arts-based approaches. His doctoral work concerned family help-seeking for compulsive hoarding and he is currently following up from this with explorations of the relationship between possessions and relationships to people and places

Career overview

Senior lecturer in mental health nursing, Nottingham Trent University, May 2021 – present

Lecturer in mental health nursing, University of Hull, April 2016 – May 2021

Specialist practitioner, Psychosis Service for Young People  in Hull and East Riding (PSYPHER),  Humber NHS Foundation Trust, 2013-2016

Research areas

Dr Timothy Buescher is a senior lecturer in mental health, with interests in subjective experience in mental health research, teaching, and practice. employing overtly subjective postqualitative research methodologies. In particular, autoethnography, participatory, and arts-based approaches. His doctoral work concerned family help-seeking for compulsive hoarding and he

Current projects

British Academy/Leverhulme-funded project examining how people let go of things into community ownership. Partnership project with Library of Stuff CiC

QR funding to explore cross-disciplinary collaboration in exploring accessibility to encourage and develop participatory work in emotional wellbeing and mental health. (internal funding, NTU) (£1875) (awarded January 2022)

MRC/ESRC/AHRC Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind: Building Capability through Methodological Innovation (350,000-500,000) PI Mathew Nyashanu. This study is therefore set to develop an innovative intervention to support mental health well-being among black adolescents in Birmingham, Manchester, and Nottingham. Currently under review.

Funding awards

The Un-tiques Roadshow - Letting go of things.  BA/Leverhulme small grant fund (£9882.22) SRG23\230422 (awarded 31st August, 2023)

Sociological and Psychological Approaches to Research into long-term Conditions (SPARC) scholarship cluster on multimorbidity (“perfect storm” proposal) (2018) (internal funding, University of Hull) (3 PhD scholarships)

The Un-tiques roadshow.  Impact Acceleration Fund (internal funding, UofH) (£3990) (awarded 8th November 2019)

PhD students

Khaldoon Obiedate with Dr Andrea Hilton and Dr Jacquie White: What is the role of psychoeducational program in improving medication adherence behaviour in people with schizophrenia and bipolar illness in Jordan. Awarded 28th September, 2023.

External activity

Director, LIbrary of Stuff CiC, 2019 - present

Organising committee, international Conference of Autoethnography (ICAE), 2019 - 2023

Organising  committee, Creative Bridges conference, 2021, 2023

Editor, Lapidus International Research and Innovation Community journal (LIRIC),  a peer-reviewed publication for Lapidus, the organisation for creative writing for wellbeing.

Peer review for Elsevier (Journal of Affective Disorders), Taylor and Francis (Brain and Behaviour; International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology)

Member, ISPS

Publications

Publications

Buescher, T. and McGugan, S. (2022) Standing out on the margins: Mental health nursing student identity and core modules. Issues in mental health nursing. https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2022.2037174

Westoby, C.A. Dyson, J. Cowdell, F. and Buescher, T.P. (2021) What are the barriers and facilitators to success for female academics in UK HEIs? A narrative review. Gender and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2021.1884198

Büscher, T.P. Dyson, J. and Cowdell, F. (2014) The impact of hoarding disorder on families: an integrative review. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 21 (6) p491-498. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12098

Conference presentations

Ellis, K. and Buescher, T. Dancing with faith, doubt, life, death, apathy, and resurrection. [video] International Conference of Autoethnography. Engineer’s House, Bristol. July 2023

Buescher, T. and Perry, M. We met online…but not on Tinder! Holding hands in the dark. International Conference of Autoethnography. Engineer’s House, Bristol. July 2023

Buescher, T. Losing a Heavenly Father and Gaining a Mother Tree. [video] International Conference of Autoethnography. MShed, Bristol. July 2022.

Buescher, T. Finding Myself at Home: Losing a Heavenly Father and Gaining a Mother Tree. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. University of Illinois [online]. 18th-22nd May 2022.

Buescher, T. Home Front Room: A health and safety audit. International Conference of Autoethnography. 21st July 2020 [online]

Buescher, T. A shared silence. 6th British International Autoethnography Conference. 22nd July 2019, Harborside, Bristol.

Buescher, T. Uses and abuses of performance in a collaborative doctoral project: intention and motivation. Public Engagement and Performance Conference 2019. 29th March 2019, Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield.

Buescher, T. Effects of compulsive hoarding and the search for help as experienced by one family member and one researcher. Critical Voices in Mental Health: Beyond recovery. 14th November 2018, University College Cork.

Buescher, T. What are your findings? Personal quests for meaning in a collaborative research project. Oral presentation. 5th British International Autoethnography Conference. 23rd July 2018, Arnolfini, Bristol.

Buescher, T. and Pallett, T. Charting collaborative explorations of compulsive hoarding. Oral presentation. Public Engagement and Performance Conference. March 2017, YHA, York.

Buescher, T. How Compulsive Hoarding Affects Family Relationship.  Poster presentation. Royal College of Nursing International Research Conference. University of Glasgow, April 2014 – Prize winner – poster of the day.

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