The Death Studies Podcast
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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
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Ruth E. Toulson on the necropolitics of the ordinary, dying and death in Singapore, anthropology, burials, funeral directors and morticians
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May 01, 2026 |
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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
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Cole Imperi on grief, thanatology, shadow loss, and non-clinical tools in support of those experiencing loss and grief
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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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
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Joshua Hurtado Hurtado on postmortal futures, future studies, de-growth, immortality imaginaries, future collective death, Westworld, and promoting your work in 2026
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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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’
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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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
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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DDD17: The 2025 Death, Dying and Disposal Conference
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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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
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Professor Patricia MacCormack on philosophy, death activism, veganism, antinatalism, necrosexuality, the Anthropocene, dudebros in academia, and a loving and vitalist relationship to death
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Dr. Terri Daniel on toxic theology, healthy theology, complicated grief, being a non-religious chaplain, hospice and loss
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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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
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May 01, 2025 |
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Professor Claire Nally on literature, Goth, Steampunk, death memoirs, representations of dead women, death positive libraries & working in academia
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Death and Institutions: Processes, Places and the Past
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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The 7th International Symposium of the Death Online Research Network (DORS#7) and Tamara Kneese on digital death, genAI, ethics, data, society & collective action
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Todd Meyers on grief, anthropology, entanglements, addiction, language, overdose death, opioid crisis, life’s incoherence and knowing your limits
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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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
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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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
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Dr. Heidi Kosonen on representations of voluntary death suicide, posthumanism, planetary death, emotion, affect, disgust and gender
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Evie King on council funerals, being a funeral officer, unidentified dead, Section 46, dying alone
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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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
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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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
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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DeathxDesignxCulture: Radical Re-Imaginings for End of Life Promo!
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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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.
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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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
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May 31, 2024 |
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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
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May 02, 2024 |
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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
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Clare Hogan on death anxiety, breath work, transpersonal psychology, performing death, death cafes and seeing death as an adventure and gateway to more life.
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Professor Lucy Easthope on disaster recovery, emergency planning, risk, the Grenfell and Hillsborough disasters in the UK, humanitarian disasters, pregnancy loss, hope and wellbeing
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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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
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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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
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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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!
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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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!
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Ru Callender on funerals, radical undertaking, eco-funerals, green undertaking, bereavement, grief and loss
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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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!
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Professor Tony Walter and the 2023 University of Bath CDAS conference on innovation, climate and ecological emergency, mass mortality, grief, loss and social change
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Dr Caroline Bennett on the Cambodian Genocide, mass graves, human remains, DNA identification, anthropology and ethnography
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Dr Hazel Marzetti on suicide, LBGT+ mental health, suicide in/as politics, qualitative health research and critical suicide studies
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May 03, 2023 |
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Dr Jeremy Cohen on new religious movements, radical-longevity, immortality, transhumanism, ethnography and cryonics
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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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
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Dr Esther Ramsay-Jones on palliative psychotherapy, grief work, writing about grief, and psychotherapy and maternal figures in dementia care
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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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
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Jason Danely on ageing, Japan, loss, ageing subjectivities unwitnessed death and anthropology
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Salena Godden on poetry, her book Mrs Death Misses Death, depicting death as a Black woman, memoir, and talking about death
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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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
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Professor Gayle Letherby on reproductive loss, auto/biographical methodologies, loss and bereavement, childlessness, and academic and creative writing practices
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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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
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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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
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Dr John Troyer on technology and the human corpse, necrowaste, necrophilia laws, transdisciplinary death studies, grief and his sister and mother’s deaths
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Dr Sara Knox on murder, serial killers, pet death, inequality in death and dying, violence and representation and writing novels
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Dr Helen Frisby on Victorian funeral customs, traditions of death and burial, sineaters and being an independent researcher
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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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
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Professor Frank Eyetsemitan on the psychology of death, ageing, intergenerational relationships, cross-cultural gerontology, and grief
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May 06, 2022 |
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Lucy Willow on death and fine art, performance art and visual culture, photographing the dead, mourning, loss, grief and artistic practice
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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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
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Dr Kate Woodthorpe on funeral practice and policy, state funeral support, death and loss as relational, public dying, and working in academia
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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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
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Gina Bond on being an anatomy technician, body donation, dissection, anatomy and death education
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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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!
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Dr Khyati Tripathi on death anxiety, Covid-19 in India, psychosocial studies and comparative approaches, plus living with Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Dr Erica Borgstrom on End-of-Life Care, advance care planning, ethnography and imposter syndrome in academia
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Sep 17, 2021 |