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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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38 Episodes

Dr Juliet Hooker on Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss, language and social justice, democracy, and killings by the police in the US
Published 2024-05-31

Dr. Yasmin Gunaratnam on transnational dying, end-of-life care, being a carer, education with end-of-life-care professionals, art methods, anti-colonial death studies, genocide, yoga, and ADHD
Published 2024-05-02
M. F. (Mike) Alvarez on suicide, mental health and illness, the ethics of autoethnography, fine art, reflexive writing, creative writing, interdisciplinarity and biases in suicidolodgy and the academy
Published 2024-04-01
Clare Hogan on death anxiety, breath work, transpersonal psychology, performing death, death cafes and seeing death as an adventure and gateway to more life.
Published 2024-03-04
Professor Lucy Easthope on disaster recovery, emergency planning, risk, the Grenfell and Hillsborough disasters in the UK, humanitarian disasters, pregnancy loss, hope and wellbeing
Published 2024-02-01
Professor Ann Luce on suicide, the ethical reporting of suicide, suicide prevention, the Bridgend suicides, emotional labour in research self-care, and living with post-Covid complications
Published 2024-01-07
Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture
Published 2023-12-07
Dr Christopher Hood on the world’s largest single plane crash, memorials, disasters, Japan and Japanese memorial cultures, writing fiction, plane crashes, mental health and suicide in academia
Published 2023-12-01
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 at DORS6 Conference 2023, horror studies, the Gothic, graveyards, body horror, trauma, film, 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

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

38 Episodes

Dr Juliet Hooker on Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss, language and social justice, democracy, and killings by the police in the US

Dr. Yasmin Gunaratnam on transnational dying, end-of-life care, being a carer, education with end-of-life-care professionals, art methods, anti-colonial death studies, genocide, yoga, and ADHD

M. F. (Mike) Alvarez on suicide, mental health and illness, the ethics of autoethnography, fine art, reflexive writing, creative writing, interdisciplinarity and biases in suicidolodgy and the academy

Clare Hogan on death anxiety, breath work, transpersonal psychology, performing death, death cafes and seeing death as an adventure and gateway to more life.

Professor Lucy Easthope on disaster recovery, emergency planning, risk, the Grenfell and Hillsborough disasters in the UK, humanitarian disasters, pregnancy loss, hope and wellbeing

Professor Ann Luce on suicide, the ethical reporting of suicide, suicide prevention, the Bridgend suicides, emotional labour in research self-care, and living with post-Covid complications

Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture

Dr Christopher Hood on the world’s largest single plane crash, memorials, disasters, Japan and Japanese memorial cultures, writing fiction, plane crashes, mental health and suicide in academia

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 at DORS6 Conference 2023, horror studies, the Gothic, graveyards, body horror, trauma, film, 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