All Episodes

Ruth E. Toulson on the necropolitics of the ordinary, dying and death in Singapore, anthropology, burials, funeral directors and morticians

Professor Beverley Clack on philosophy of religion, failure, loss, neoliberalism, thinking about death and not freaking out, women, gender and good public conversations about difficult topics

Cole Imperi on grief, thanatology, shadow loss, and non-clinical tools in support of those experiencing loss and grief

Dr. Nina Vaswani on young men and grief during in imprisonment, childhood bereavement, masculinities, trauma informed practice, disenfranchised grief and public health responses to grief

Joshua Hurtado Hurtado on postmortal futures, future studies, de-growth, immortality imaginaries, future collective death, Westworld, and promoting your work in 2026

Professor Douglas Davies on the development of death studies, ‘words against death’, the ‘dividual’, religion, ‘sacred secrets’, the ‘opacity of the self’ and the ‘curated everything’

Dr. Jessica Young on assisted dying, the New Zealand End of Life Choice Bill, culturally responsive research, end of life care and decision making, and sociological approaches

DDD17: The 2025 Death, Dying and Disposal Conference

Dr. Kaylee Alexander on digital humanities, being a research data librarian, visual culture, cemeteries, French cemetery laws, cemetery sculpture, ethically sound data visualisation and survival bias

Professor Patricia MacCormack on philosophy, death activism, veganism, antinatalism, necrosexuality, the Anthropocene, dudebros in academia, and a loving and vitalist relationship to death

Dr. Terri Daniel on toxic theology, healthy theology, complicated grief, being a non-religious chaplain, hospice and loss

Dr. Sydney Campbell on Medical Assistance in Dying for mature minors, children’s participation, policy, assisted dying, childism, participatory research and end-of-life contexts

Professor Claire Nally on literature, Goth, Steampunk, death memoirs, representations of dead women, death positive libraries & working in academia

Death and Institutions: Processes, Places and the Past

The 7th International Symposium of the Death Online Research Network (DORS#7) and Tamara Kneese on digital death, genAI, ethics, data, society & collective action

Todd Meyers on grief, anthropology, entanglements, addiction, language, overdose death, opioid crisis, life’s incoherence and knowing your limits

Professor Michele Aaron on filmmaking and end of life care, hospice documentary, death and LGBTQIA+ communities, palliative care, film practice, ethics, visual culture and dying

DEATHxDESIGNxCULTURE conference episode on death, culture, older age rational suicide (OARS), film, design, grief, knitting, jewellery and memento mori, material culture, museums, and memorial reefs

Dr. Heidi Kosonen on representations of voluntary death suicide, posthumanism, planetary death, emotion, affect, disgust and gender

Evie King on council funerals, being a funeral officer, unidentified dead, Section 46, dying alone

Dr. Minakshi Dewan on last rites and rituals in India, gender, faith, religion, funeral pyres, sky burial, caste, gender, discrimination and the professionalisation of rites and funerals

Professor Nina Lykke on queer & feminist death studies; posthumanism; the more than human; necropolitics; philosophy, atheism & death; vibrant death; mourning, & ongoing relationships with the dead

DeathxDesignxCulture: Radical Re-Imaginings for End of Life Promo!

Dr Hannah Gould on death and the dead in Japan, changing death rituals, necromaterials, death rites, caring for the dead, death technologies, vertical burial and ethnographies of things.

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

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 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

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

Dr Ruth Penfold-Mounce on crime, deviance, death and popular culture, celebrity death, pedagogy and public engagement with death, death walks and gender inequality after death

Professor Frank Eyetsemitan on the psychology of death, ageing, intergenerational relationships, cross-cultural gerontology, and grief

Lucy Willow on death and fine art, performance art and visual culture, photographing the dead, mourning, loss, grief and artistic practice

Dr Panagiotis Pentaris on thanatology, hospice social work, bereavement therapy, end-of-life strategy, religious literacy in hospice care and death in a transhumanist and posthumanist society

Dr Kate Woodthorpe on funeral practice and policy, state funeral support, death and loss as relational, public dying, and working in academia

Dr Kami Fletcher on death and American and African American history, African American burial grounds, late 19th and early 20th century Black undertaker and contemporary Black grief and mourning

Gina Bond on being an anatomy technician, body donation, dissection, anatomy and death education

Deb Rawlings and Emma Clare on Death Doulas, death education, the language we use around death and dying, emotional labour in deathcare, Covid-19 and doing death differently!

Dr Khyati Tripathi on death anxiety, Covid-19 in India, psychosocial studies and comparative approaches, plus living with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Dr Erica Borgstrom on End-of-Life Care, advance care planning, ethnography and imposter syndrome in academia