Posts in "Care in Funerals"

Posts in "Care in Funerals"

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Four weddings and a (lockdown) funeral

Jennie Riley compares the seemingly incongruous rites of passage of marriage and death, and considers similarities between the two which the pandemic has brought into sharper relief. 

Weddings and funerals hold very different places in our cultural imaginations. Their juxtaposition is part of what makes the 1994 film title so…

Published by Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation, University of Aberdeen

Presence, or persons as relations

Arnar Árnason reflects on what it can mean – and why it can matter – to be present at funerals

One of the many highlights of the DDD15 conference, the one that has left me thinking the most, was a panel on ‘Grievability and bare life’ that took place on…

Published by Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation, 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 Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation, 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 Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation, University of Aberdeen

Now showing: funerals

Jennie Riley explores a range of experiences of – and opinions towards – funeral livestreaming, and considers some of the questions this burgeoning phenomenon might require us to ask.

At the start of June 2021, it was my pleasure to attend my good friend Katharine’s wedding to husband Sam…

Published by Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation, University of Aberdeen

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