Words to explore and navigate lives and worlds
Tim Buescher has extensive involvement in and experience of creative academic writing and performance. He took his MA to move this on to a new place and reach new audiences, beyond academic spaces and work. Having worked in mental health for twenty years, the last ten as an academic, Tim is a keen crafter of stories and reflective practitioner. As a central team member of the International Conference of Autoethnography and editor of LIRIC, the research journal of Lapidus, the community of writing for wellbeing practitioners, he engages with and encourages creative practice in others.
The plan
Having spent ten years nurturing and encouraging students, peers, and authors to create engaging and challenging work, it’s time for me to take my own advice and reach out in new directions. I took my MA to develop my skills and open up possibilities, graduating with a distinction in 2024. Now I take the next step…
Current projects:
Poetry: A project based around the rippling effects of my family’s relation to war
Writing Home – Connecting and Healing with Lost Ancestors: Workshops using creative writing to work with ancestral/transgenerational trauma. Coming September 2025
Screenplay – Pete Morgan Lived Here: seeking funding/collaborators to produce
The Un-Tiques Roadshow – Letting Things Go: A BA/Leverhulme funded project examining how stories can help us hold on to and let go of possessions into collective community ownership
Published work:
MYNYDD ENLLI will be published in The Fig Tree, September 2026
Stainless was published in The Fig Tree Issue 11, November 2025 and The Fig Tree 2025 anthology (Crooked Spire Press, 2026)
Glass Bead was published in the HighWolds Poetry Collection, 2025
Pathe Gazette December 1917 was longlisted for Canterbury poet of the Year, 2025 and features in the festival anthology.
Centenary was first published in the Bones anthology (Nottingham; Laundrette, 2023).
The First Time I Hit a Drum was published in the High Wolds Poetry Collection, 2024.
Academic publications:
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
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
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://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01612840.2022.2037174