The Death Studies Podcast

51 Episodes

1. 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: 01/12/2023
2. 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: 01/11/2023
3. 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: 01/10/2023
4. Ru Callender on funerals, radical undertaking, eco-funerals, green undertaking, bereavement, grief and loss

   Published: 01/09/2023
5. 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: 02/08/2023
6. 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: 02/07/2023
7. Dr Caroline Bennett on the Cambodian Genocide, mass graves, human remains, DNA identification, anthropology and ethnography

   Published: 01/06/2023
8. Dr Hazel Marzetti on suicide, LBGT+ mental health, suicide in/as politics, qualitative health research and critical suicide studies

   Published: 03/05/2023
9. Dr Jeremy Cohen on new religious movements, radical-longevity, immortality, transhumanism, ethnography and cryonics

   Published: 01/04/2023
10. 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: 01/03/2023
11. Dr Esther Ramsay-Jones on palliative psychotherapy, grief work, writing about grief, and psychotherapy and maternal figures in dementia care

    Published: 03/02/2023
12. 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: 23/01/2023
13. Jason Danely on ageing, Japan, loss, ageing subjectivities unwitnessed death and anthropology

    Published: 01/01/2023
14. Salena Godden on poetry, her book Mrs Death Misses Death, depicting death as a Black woman, memoir, and talking about death

    Published: 24/12/2022
15. 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: 01/12/2022
16. Professor Gayle Letherby on reproductive loss, auto/biographical methodologies, loss and bereavement, childlessness, and academic and creative writing practices

    Published: 01/11/2022
17. 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: 01/10/2022
18. Dr Trish Biers and Dr Katie Stringer Clary at the Death and Culture 2022 Conference on museums, heritage, and death, the ethics of human display, curation and working in museums and heritage education

    Published: 21/09/2022
19. Dr John Troyer on technology and the human corpse, necrowaste, necrophilia laws, transdisciplinary death studies, grief and his sister and mother’s deaths

    Published: 01/09/2022
20. Dr Sara Knox on murder, serial killers, pet death, inequality in death and dying, violence and representation and writing novels

    Published: 01/08/2022