Dr. Jane McCarthy What’s the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Jane McCarthy on...

De daling van homoacceptatie onder jongeren is vooral te verklaren door een jarenlange campagne van rechts-populisten tegen de queergemeenschap, zegt socioloog Niels Spierings. ‘Transhaat is een glijd...

The Death Studies Podcast · Episode

“In a way, my mother’s death was both an ending and a beginning” writes Jane K. Callahan, author of A Death Doula’s Guide To a Meaningful End. Before the death of her mother, she had no real frame of ...

Dr Molly Conisbee What’s the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Molly Conisbee on...

The Death Studies Podcast · Episode

In All the lives we ever lived author Katharine Smyth seeks solace in the works of Virginia Woolf, particularly her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse. I will admit right out the gate that I have never read...

Thing in nature merely grow is the 2026 winner of the Pulitzer Price for memoir or autobiography. In the memoir Yiyun Li writes about the suicides of both her sons which occurred six years apart. Li's...

Thing in nature merely grow is the 2026 winner of the Pulitzer Price for memoir or autobiography. In the memoir Yiyun Li writes about the suicides of both her sons which occurred six years apart. Li's...

Join us for the 'Launch of the Centre for Open Thanatology: Dialogue and Engagement with Death and Loss'

In Too Poor to Die: the Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins author Amy Shea demonstrates that death is not the great equalizer. Some people, as the title highlights, are simply too poor to die. ...

Podcast Episode · The Death Studies Podcast · 1 May · 1hr 19min

Social Sciences Podcast · Monthly · The Death Studies Podcast is a platform for the diversity of voices in, around and contributing to the academic field of Death Studies. Find out more at www.thedeat...

This time last year, I had never heard of Henrietta Lacks. But over the past year her name has been appearing in papers and book chapters I have been reading. Most recently, in a chapter of The Routle...

Podcast Episode · The Death Studies Podcast · 1 April · 1hr 6min

Podcast Episode · The Death Studies Podcast · 1 April · 1hr 6min

This time last year, I had never heard of Henrietta Lacks. But over the past year her name has been appearing in papers and book chapters I have been reading. Most recently, in a chapter of The Routle...

What’s the episode about? In this episode, hear Cole Imperi on grief, thanatology, shadow loss, and non-clinical tools in support of those experiencing loss and grief. Who is Cole? Cole Imperi is a th...

We´re a morning lecture series for Helsinki´s creative community that also take place in 252 cities around the world. We continue to strive to connect our au...

I was kindly sent an uncorrected proof of Still Running After All These Years: A Runner's Journey Through Grief. Whilst I was sent this book due to my interest in death and dying, I think I got the mo...

What’s the episode about? In this episode, hear Nina Vaswani on young men and grief during in imprisonment, childhood bereavement, masculinities and grief, trauma informed practice, comics for educati...

When the Cranes Fly South follows the life of Bo, an older person living alone in the North of Sweden. We get glimpses of his daily life interspersed with notes from carers, who visit Bo multiple tim...

This has been the third, or fourth, time reading Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson written by Mitch Albom. Originally published in 1997, I am sure many of you h...

As will be clear by now, I love a memoir. I love learning about people's life histories and how their lived experience is shaped by their historical, social and political environment. Before the Light...

This has been the third, or fourth, time reading Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson written by Mitch Albom. Originally published in 1997, I am sure many of you h...

What’s the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Douglas Davies on the development of death studies, ‘words against death’, the ‘dividual’, religion, ‘sacred secrets’, the ‘opacity of the sel...

This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying, and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, bas...

On 1 February 1910 music-hall performer Belle Elmore suddenly vanished from her North London home. In Story of a Murder: the Wives, the Mistress and Doctor Crippen Hallie Rubenhold describes the lif...

On 1 February 1910 music-hall performer Belle Elmore suddenly vanished from her North London home. In Story of a Murder: the Wives, the Mistress and Doctor Crippen Hallie Rubenhold describes the lif...

What’s the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Jessica Young on assisted dying, the New Zealand End of Life Choice Bill, culturally responsive research, end of life care and decision making, and s...

What’s the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Jessica Young on assisted dying, the New Zealand End of Life Choice Bill, culturally responsive research, end of life care and decision making, and s...