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Innovation at the End of Life: Centre for Death and Society Annual Conference

While the Care in Funerals project formally wound down a little while ago, its rich dataset still holds plenty of potential for further analysis, thinking and writing.

Jennie Riley, Vikki Entwistle and Arnar Arnason took the 2023 meeting of the Centre for Death and Society annual conference as an opportunity…

Published by Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen

Summary of project findings now available

Last week we shared this summary of project findings with people who had participated in the Care In Funerals project. We are now pleased to share them more widely.

Academic papers and the Care in Funerals online casebook resource are in progress and will be available soon.

Care in Funerals…

Published by Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen

Institutions and Death: The Care in Funerals Panel Presentation at the Centre for Death and Society Annual Conference

On 9th and 10th June 2022, several members of the Care in Funerals research team had the pleasure of attending the annual conference of the University of Bath’s Centre for Death and Society (CDAS), hosted online. The theme this year was ‘Institutions and Death’.

In addition to an interactive session…

Published by Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen

Handle with care: attending to the dead body during the Covid-19 pandemic

The Care in Funerals project is investigating what can be learned from disruptions to UK funeral provision during the COVID-19 pandemic, and from how people adapted to those disruptions. In this blog post, Jennie Riley and Vikki Entwistle focus on practices involving the dead body.

Dead human bodies have multiple…

Published by Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen

Team Reflections from DDD15

Some highlights from team members attending the DDD15 conference 

The 15th international conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal (DDD15) was held online from 1st – 4th September 2021, hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University for the Association for the Study of Death and Society. This year’s theme…

Published by Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen

Presenting our work in progress at DDD15

Five members of our team attended the 15th international conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal (DDD15), which was held online from 1st – 4th September 2021. In this blog, we share the updates on work in progress that we presented at the conference.

We presented together…

Published by Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen

Appreciating 'food for thought' conversations

Vikki Entwistle reflects on the value of open team discussions in Care in Funerals project meetings

In our early team meetings, we have been sharing and discussing a broad selection of ‘food for thought’ items relating to funerals: news reports; guidance about regulations and policy changes introduced because of COVID-19;…

Published by Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen

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