Sensory Fashion stress management tools to prevent a bipolar relapse
By Jenny Tillotson, 2021
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Sensory fashion stress-management tools to prevent a bipolar relapse
2013
East of England
I am a designer and inventor operating at the cutting edge of the wearable digital scent sector. I have spent many years working across academia, the creative industries and medical technology, where I gained insight in new adaptative scent technologies. Trained in fashion communication at Central Saint Martins and textile design at the Royal College of Art (PhD), I have a truly transdisciplinary approach informed by neuroscience, sustainable design thinking and extensive lived experiences.
Fascinated by the potential of emerging technologies and bio-synchronised fragrances to create transformative wellness experiences, I have focused my attention on mental health and closed-loop business models for scent delivery. I am developing eScent, a new movement in wearable personalised adaptive fragrances, which I have pioneered for the wellbeing, fashiontech, beautytech and psychedelic medicine industries.
I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, a visiting researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, an Associate of the British Society of Perfumers and a member of Cambridge Neuroscience and of the Royal Society of Biology. I was previously an academic at Central Saint Martins (Sensory Fashion) and the University of Cambridge (Healthcare Biotechnology) and have won awards from the AHRC, InnovateUK and Stelios Foundation. In 2023 I I am a designer and inventor operating at the cutting edge of the wearable digital scent sector. I have spent many years working across academia, the creative industries and medical technology, where I gained insight in new adaptative scent technologies. Trained in fashion communication at Central Saint Martins and textile design at the Royal College of Art (PhD), I have a truly transdisciplinary approach informed by neuroscience, sustainable design thinking and extensive lived experiences.
Fascinated by the potential of emerging technologies and bio-synchronised fragrances to create transformative wellness experiences, I have focused my attention on mental health and closed-loop business models for scent delivery. I am developing eScent, a new movement in wearable personalised adaptive fragrances, which I have pioneered for the wellbeing, fashiontech, beautytech and psychedelic medicine industries.
I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, a visiting researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, an Associate of the British Society of Perfumers and a member of Cambridge Neuroscience and of the Royal Society of Biology. I was previously an academic at Central Saint Martins (Sensory Fashion) and the University of Cambridge (Healthcare Biotechnology) and have won awards from the AHRC, InnovateUK and Stelios Foundation. Recently, I won an award with eScent funded by an NIHR i4i “invention for innovation” award to undertake research with the Eastern Academic Health Science Network (EAHSN) commercial enterprise team.
Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) won an Innovate UK Design Foundations award for her Scent Bubble design.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2024
Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) was recently awarded a third USA patent for the Scent Bubble innovation, which stemmed from her Churchill Fellowship research.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2024
Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) exhibited at the Royal Academy of Engineering's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) conference.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2024
Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) won a Medilink Midland Innovation Award in recognition of the impact of her research.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2024
Designer and founder of eScent, Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013), reported that eScent, a wearable technology system, has been shortlisted for a CogX Award 2023 and she exhibited eScent at the CogX festival in the O2 Arena.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2023
Designer and founder of eScent, Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013), has won an award with eScent funded by an NIHR i4i, scooped the Best Innovation Award at the recent Wearable Tech Show in London.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2023
The work of designer Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) has been shortlisted in the #21toWatch awards this month, which celebrates innovation and entrepreneurship across Cambridge and the East of England. The award is in recognition of eScent, a wearable technology system created by Jenny.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2022
By Jenny Tillotson, 2022
Designer Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) met with Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner this month to present the FFP3 facemask that she has developed. The mask uses an innovative scent delivery system for facemasks to aid wellbeing and was supported by funding from Innovate UK.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2021
By Jenny Tillotson, 2020
Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) contributed a chapter to The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities, exploring sensory design and smart textiles in relation to health humanities.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2020
Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) won the DELIGHTEX Award at the Leave a Nest Tech Planter Day, where she presented her work on wearable scent interventions for mood disorders.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2019
Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) received a Stelios Foundation Award in partnership with Leonard Cheshire.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2019
Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) collaborated with the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC UKRI) on World Mental Health Day to launch a booklet featuring a case study of her eScent research aimed at reducing mental health stigma.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2017
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Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) won an Innovate UK Design Foundations award for her Scent Bubble design.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2024
Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) was recently awarded a third USA patent for the Scent Bubble innovation, which stemmed from her Churchill Fellowship research.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2024
Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) exhibited at the Royal Academy of Engineering's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) conference.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2024
Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) won a Medilink Midland Innovation Award in recognition of the impact of her research.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2024
Designer and founder of eScent, Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013), reported that eScent, a wearable technology system, has been shortlisted for a CogX Award 2023 and she exhibited eScent at the CogX festival in the O2 Arena.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2023
Designer and founder of eScent, Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013), has won an award with eScent funded by an NIHR i4i, scooped the Best Innovation Award at the recent Wearable Tech Show in London.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2023
The work of designer Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) has been shortlisted in the #21toWatch awards this month, which celebrates innovation and entrepreneurship across Cambridge and the East of England. The award is in recognition of eScent, a wearable technology system created by Jenny.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2022
By Jenny Tillotson, 2022
Designer Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) met with Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner this month to present the FFP3 facemask that she has developed. The mask uses an innovative scent delivery system for facemasks to aid wellbeing and was supported by funding from Innovate UK.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2021
By Jenny Tillotson, 2020
Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) contributed a chapter to The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities, exploring sensory design and smart textiles in relation to health humanities.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2020
Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) won the DELIGHTEX Award at the Leave a Nest Tech Planter Day, where she presented her work on wearable scent interventions for mood disorders.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2019
Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) received a Stelios Foundation Award in partnership with Leonard Cheshire.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2019
Jenny Tillotson (CF 2013) collaborated with the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC UKRI) on World Mental Health Day to launch a booklet featuring a case study of her eScent research aimed at reducing mental health stigma.
By Jenny Tillotson, 2017
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.