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The Death Studies Podcast

A podcast by: The Death Studies Podcast

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

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30 Episodes

Foluke Taylor on Black feminist writing and the permission to write (and think) differently, the limits of decolonisation, citational practices, therapy, language, grief, and more!
Published 2023-11-01

Angeline Morrison at the 2023 Falmouth University Haunted Landscapes conference on voicing Black British ancestors through music, folk music and death, sorrow songs and more!
Published 2023-10-01
Ru Callender on funerals, radical undertaking, eco-funerals, green undertaking, bereavement, grief and loss
Published 2023-09-01
Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes on horror studies, the Gothic, graveyards & death, body horror, horror and trauma, film and English lit, experiencing a transient ischaemic attack, plus conference highlights!
Published 2023-08-02
Professor Tony Walter and the 2023 University of Bath CDAS conference on innovation, climate and ecological emergency, mass mortality, grief, loss and social change
Published 2023-07-02
Dr Caroline Bennett on the Cambodian Genocide, mass graves, human remains, DNA identification, anthropology and ethnography
Published 2023-06-01
Dr Hazel Marzetti on suicide, LBGT+ mental health, suicide in/as politics, qualitative health research and critical suicide studies
Published 2023-05-03
Dr Jeremy Cohen on new religious movements, radical-longevity, immortality, transhumanism, ethnography and cryonics
Published 2023-04-01
Professor Helen Wheatley on death in film and television, corpses, grief and loss on screen, the Gothic, assisted suicide on television, haunting on TV and cultural trauma
Published 2023-03-01
Dr Esther Ramsay-Jones on palliative psychotherapy, grief work, writing about grief, and psychotherapy and maternal figures in dementia care
Published 2023-02-03
Death and the Screen Special Issue of Revenant and Dr Ruth Heholt on ghosts, haunting, the Gothic, Catherine Crowe, the supernatural and starting a journal
Published 2023-01-23
Jason Danely on ageing, Japan, loss, ageing subjectivities unwitnessed death and anthropology
Published 2023-01-01
Salena Godden on poetry, her book Mrs Death Misses Death, depicting death as a Black woman, memoir, and talking about death
Published 2022-12-24
Mandy Gosling on psychotherapy, grief experienced by adults and couples who were bereaved as children, her experience of bereavement as a child, the loss of mothers and delayed and prolonged grief
Published 2022-12-01
Professor Gayle Letherby on reproductive loss, auto/biographical methodologies, loss and bereavement, childlessness, and academic and creative writing practices
Published 2022-11-01
Dr Jillian A. Tullis on end-of-life care and communication, resisting the hospice narrative, autoethnography and its ethical implications, truth in qualitative research, spirituality and cancer care
Published 2022-10-01
Dr Trish Biers and Dr Katie Stringer Clary on museums, heritage, and death, the ethics of human display, curation and working in museums and heritage education
Published 2022-09-21
Dr John Troyer on technology and the human corpse, necrowaste, necrophilia laws, transdisciplinary death studies, grief and his sister and mother’s deaths
Published 2022-09-01
Dr Sara Knox on murder, serial killers, pet death, inequality in death and dying, violence and representation and writing novels
Published 2022-08-01
Dr Helen Frisby on Victorian funeral customs, traditions of death and burial, sineaters and being an independent researcher
Published 2022-07-01

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.thedeathstudiespodcast.com

30 Episodes

Foluke Taylor on Black feminist writing and the permission to write (and think) differently, the limits of decolonisation, citational practices, therapy, language, grief, and more!

Angeline Morrison at the 2023 Falmouth University Haunted Landscapes conference on voicing Black British ancestors through music, folk music and death, sorrow songs and more!

Ru Callender on funerals, radical undertaking, eco-funerals, green undertaking, bereavement, grief and loss

Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes on horror studies, the Gothic, graveyards & death, body horror, horror and trauma, film and English lit, experiencing a transient ischaemic attack, plus conference highlights!

Professor Tony Walter and the 2023 University of Bath CDAS conference on innovation, climate and ecological emergency, mass mortality, grief, loss and social change

Dr Caroline Bennett on the Cambodian Genocide, mass graves, human remains, DNA identification, anthropology and ethnography

Dr Hazel Marzetti on suicide, LBGT+ mental health, suicide in/as politics, qualitative health research and critical suicide studies

Dr Jeremy Cohen on new religious movements, radical-longevity, immortality, transhumanism, ethnography and cryonics

Professor Helen Wheatley on death in film and television, corpses, grief and loss on screen, the Gothic, assisted suicide on television, haunting on TV and cultural trauma

Dr Esther Ramsay-Jones on palliative psychotherapy, grief work, writing about grief, and psychotherapy and maternal figures in dementia care

Death and the Screen Special Issue of Revenant and Dr Ruth Heholt on ghosts, haunting, the Gothic, Catherine Crowe, the supernatural and starting a journal

Jason Danely on ageing, Japan, loss, ageing subjectivities unwitnessed death and anthropology

Salena Godden on poetry, her book Mrs Death Misses Death, depicting death as a Black woman, memoir, and talking about death

Mandy Gosling on psychotherapy, grief experienced by adults and couples who were bereaved as children, her experience of bereavement as a child, the loss of mothers and delayed and prolonged grief

Professor Gayle Letherby on reproductive loss, auto/biographical methodologies, loss and bereavement, childlessness, and academic and creative writing practices

Dr Jillian A. Tullis on end-of-life care and communication, resisting the hospice narrative, autoethnography and its ethical implications, truth in qualitative research, spirituality and cancer care

Dr Trish Biers and Dr Katie Stringer Clary on museums, heritage, and death, the ethics of human display, curation and working in museums and heritage education

Dr John Troyer on technology and the human corpse, necrowaste, necrophilia laws, transdisciplinary death studies, grief and his sister and mother’s deaths

Dr Sara Knox on murder, serial killers, pet death, inequality in death and dying, violence and representation and writing novels

Dr Helen Frisby on Victorian funeral customs, traditions of death and burial, sineaters and being an independent researcher