The ‘Faith in Funerals’ research project explored the fusion of religious, non-religious and spiritual resources in everyday funerals, with implications for how funeral arrangers, celebrants, and religious ministers can support people in navigating a varied range of spiritual needs when planning funerals for their loved ones. The research suggests that classifying funerals as either religious Read More…
Category: Research
Contemporary representations of grief and pain: visibility, agency and social transformation through the image
The MIICI-funded project deals with visual narratives and images related to processes of grief and pain with the aim of analyzing and detecting the processes of visibilization of certain people and groups that suffer from them and that are invisibilized or stigmatized. At the same time, the capacity for action and agency of these images Read More…
AI, Holograms and Bereavement
The aim of this project is to explore views, perceptions and establish the attitudes of social work, nursing and psychology students in relation to the use of AI technology in coping with death and loss. AI is increasingly playing a role in helping individuals cope with grief by providing personalised support (She et al., 2022; Read More…
Palliative and end of life care experiences of older gender and sexually diverse individuals in the UK
People of gender and sexual diversity (GSD) are often overlooked in research, or when research engages with this part of the population, it facilitates the tendency to homogenise lived experience, primarily by claiming generalisability of knowledge from gay men’s experiences, for example, over to trans individuals. Recent research reports, such as the Equity in the Read More…
The decolonisation of death studies
Exploring socio-historic, structural, language and disciplinary roots of death studies in the attempt to diversify evidence and knowledge in this area of specialism. Current knowledge in death studies tends to be filtered through the lens of Western views, conforming identities, certain disciplines and for different reasons and with little inter-disciplinary collaboration, the English language, and Read More…
Dying in a transhumanist and posthuman society
Exploring both the intrapersonal (moral) and interpersonal (ethical) nature of death and dying in the context of their development (philosophical). Drawing on transhumanism and discourses about posthumanity, life prolongation and digital life, this project analyses death, dying and grief via the governance of dying. It states that the bio-medical dimensions of our understanding of death Read More…
