The Death Studies Podcast
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What's the episode about?
In this episode, hear Monday 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.
Who is Mandy?
Mandy Gosling is a UKCP and BACP accredited psychotherapist, researcher and author, specialising in unresolved grief experienced by adults and couples who were bereaved as children.
As a bereaved child herself, Mandy completed a research MA in 2016 to ‘Understand Childhood Parental Bereavement from a Psychological and Spiritual Perspective’ and then established ABC Grief, the central focus for her private practice in High Wycombe, Bucks.
She is a contributing author in the anthology ‘My Mother’s Story – Gone Too Soon’ from which she co-presented a poster at the inaugural European Grief Conference, and is currently collaborating on a phenomenological research project to investigate the long term consequences of delayed and prolonged grief in adults bereaved as children.
Mandy continues to drive awareness in this niche and often overlooked area of grief through conversations in the media, podcasts and bereavement community.
Find out more at www.abcgrief.co.uk or follow on Twitter using @abcgrief and on LinkedIn under Mandy Gosling.
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To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:
Gosling, M. (2022) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 December 2022. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI:10.6084/m9.figshare.21641285
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Dr Erica Borgstrom on End-of-Life Care, advance care planning, ethnography and imposter syndrome in academia
The Death Studies Podcast
09/17/21 • 60 min
In this episode, hear Dr. Erica Borgstrom discuss End-of-Life Care, anthropology, palliative care, ethnography, thanatology and death studies, as well as ‘imposter syndrome’ in academia.
Who is Erica?
Erica is a medical anthropologist and lecturer at the Open University, where she is the Qualifications Lead for Health and Social Care and the lead for Open Thanatology. She is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Erica is one of the two editors for the academic journal Mortality.
Her specialist area in research and teaching is death and dying, with an emphasis on end-of-life care. She uses her anthropological skills to disrupt the normative concepts in end-of-life care by foregrounding people’s everyday experiences and the structural and discursive elements that shape how care is provided. She is involved in several projects about palliative and end-of-life care.
You can follow Erica on Twitter @EricaBorsgstrom
Watch ‘Should everyone have an ‘end-of-life’ plan?’ here.
Watch ‘Life or Death Decisions’ here.
Experience the ‘Life or Death Decisions’ interactive here.
How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?
To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:
Borgstrom, E. (2021) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 17 September 2021. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16640065.v1
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Professor Frank Eyetsemitan on the psychology of death, ageing, intergenerational relationships, cross-cultural gerontology, and grief
The Death Studies Podcast
05/06/22 • 57 min
What's the episode about?
In this episode, hear Professor Frank Eyetsemitan discuss the psychology of death, ageing, intergenerational relationships, cross-cultural gerontology, and grief.
Who is Frank?
Professor Frank Eyetsemitan is Professor of Psychology at Roger Williams University in Bristol Rhode Island, where he previously held the position of Associate Dean for Social Sciences Division of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Eyetsemitan’s work in the field of aging spans almost three decades. His research interests include intergenerational relationships (within families and within skilled care facilities), cross-cultural gerontology, and adult grief outcomes.
Prof Eyetsemitan’s works have appeared in prominent journals on Aging and Death & Dying, including the Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology; Death Studies; and OMEGA: Death and Dying.
His book (published in 2003 with James Gire as co-author), entitled: Aging and Adult Development in Developing Societies: Applying Western Theories and Concepts discusses the appropriateness of applying key Western theories and concepts to non-Western populations.
He is also the author of the textbook, Understanding Death & Dying: Encountering death, dying and the afterlife (2020); and of Death, Dying and Bereavement Around the World: theories, varied views and customs (2021).
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To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:
Eyetsemitan, F. (2022) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 6 May 2022. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19721980
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What's the episode about?
In this episode, hear Dr Trish Biers and Dr Katie Stringer Clary discuss museums, heritage, and death, the ethics of human display, curation and working in museums and heritage education.
Who is Trish?
Dr Trish Biers is the Collections Manager at the Level of Curator of the Duckworth laboratory (human and non-human primate remains and an archive) in the Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
She teaches in the Department about ethics, repatriation, treatment of the dead, mortuary archaeology, and osteology. She has excavated all over the world but specialises in mummies of South America.
She is currently the Museum Representative, on the Board of Trustees, British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) and organises their sub-group on the sale and trade of human remains.
Her research interests include ancient and modern death work, mummy studies, osteoarchaeology and paleopathology, biomolecular archaeology, the Columbian Exchange, and museum studies focusing on displaying the dead, working with human remains, repatriation and ethics in archaeology.
She is also involved in research about witchcraft, folklore, and archaeology. Trish is the ‘other-half’ of MorMortisMuseum with Dr Katie Stringer-Clary.
Who is Katie?
Katie Stringer Clary, Ph.D., currently teaches history and public history at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C.
Since 2007, Clary worked with museums in various capacities from docent to executive director. In her time at museums and as a graduate student in Public History she focused on museum education and inclusion issues, especially for people with special needs.
This research culminated in her 2014 manuscript, Programming for People with Special Needs: A Guide for Museums and Historic Sites.
Through her work, she continues to advocate for accessibility, representation, and equality in museums and historic sites. Clary currently researches the ethics and historical contexts of human remains in museums, dark tourism and ghost tours at historic sites, and the roles death plays in the museum world. Museums, Heritage, and Death, co-edited with Dr. Trish Biers for Routledge Publishing is scheduled for release in 2023, and she also has two chapters in the volume.
Clary works closely with community organizations to preserve and interpret the past. She is also interested in the history of museums, museum administration, digital histories, and community engagement.
In her spare time, she likes to camp and hike, travel, and spend time with her dogs Harry Clary and Brutus, cat Miss Frances, and six chickens.
Find the Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage and Death here.
How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?
To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:
Biers, T. and Stringer Clary, K. (2022) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 21 September. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.21175312
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What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Nina Lykke on queer and feminist death studies; posthumanism; the more than human; necropolitics; philosophy, atheism and death; vibrant death; mourning, and ongoing relationships with the dead
Who is Nina?
Nina Lykke, Dr. Phil., Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Nina participated in the building of Feminist Studies in Scandinavia and Europe more broadly for many years.
She is also a poet and writer, and co-founder, in 2016, of the international Network for Queer Death Studies.
Current research interests: queering of cancer, death, and mourning in posthuman, queerfemme, new-materialist, decolonial, eco-critical and spiritual-material perspectives; feminist and femme-inist theory; intersectional methodologies; autophenomenography; poetic writing; eco-critical storytelling.
She has recently published articles in journals such as Australian Feminist Studies; NORA ; Catalyst; Environmental Humanities; Social Identities; Kerb Journal; Lambda Nordica; Forum+; Women, Gender and Research and Somatechnics. She is also author of numerous monographs such as Cosmodolphins (2000), Feminist Studies (2010), Vibrant Death (2022) and Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters (2024, with K.Aglert and L.Henrksen).
How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?
To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:
Lykke, N. (2024) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 August 2024. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.26422072
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Dr Helen Frisby on Victorian funeral customs, traditions of death and burial, sineaters and being an independent researcher
The Death Studies Podcast
07/01/22 • 54 min
What's the episode about?
In this episode, hear Dr Helen Frisby discuss Victorian funeral customs, traditions of death and burial, sineaters and being an independent researcher whilst working in professional services in a university.
Who is Helen?
Dr Helen Frisby obtained her PhD on Victorian funeral customs from the University of Leeds in 2009.
Helen is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath, Secretary of the Association for the Study of Death & Society (ASDS) and a Council Member of the Folklore Society.
She continues to research, publish and speak on the history and folklore of death, dying and bereavement, including appearances on the History Channel and BBC Radio. Helen’s book Traditions of Death and Burial was published in 2019. Other recent research, with the University of Bristol, investigates the informal occupational culture of frontline cemetery staff.
Helen is also Researcher Development Manager at UWE Bristol, with particular expertise in academic writing, qualitative research methods and postgraduate researcher wellbeing.
Here are some of the references that Helen mentioned:
● Ronald Hutton ‘The English Reformation and the Evidence of Folklore’ Past and Present 148 (1) pp.89-116.
● Ronald Hutton The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
● Brian Parsons The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the 20th Century: From Undertaker to Funeral Director. Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2018.
Helen’s favourite popular culture depiction of the Sin Eater is the film The Order(US Title)/The Sin Eater (UK title)
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To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:
Frisby, H. (2022) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 July 2022. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20161061
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What's the episode about? In this episode, hear 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.
Who is Kami?
Dr. Kami Fletcher is an Associate Professor of American & African American History and Co-Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies at Albright College. She teaches courses that explore the African experience in America and unpacks social and cultural U.S. history all at the intersection of race, gender, class, and sexuality.
Her research centers on African American burial grounds, late 19th/early 20th century Black female and male undertakers, and contemporary Black grief and mourning. She is the co-editor of Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed which examines the internal and/or external drives among ethnic, religious, and racial groups to separate their dead (University Press of Mississippi, April 2020) She is currently working on Grave History: Death, Race & Gender in Southern Cemeteries from Antebellum to the Post-Civil Rights Era investigates the southern places where cemeteries take root as well as probe the interplay of southern history, culture, race, class, gender, and climate in these cities of the dead (University of Georgia Press).
Currently, Dr. Fletcher is working on a manuscript that historicizes Mount Auburn Cemetery in Baltimore, the first Black owned and operated cemetery in Maryland. The book positions African American cemeteries as the point where life and death meet arguing that this meeting point is a symbol of Black freedom from White control.
At the end of the show, Beth asks about one of the paintings on the wall behind Kami. Kami’s lifemate, sociologist and artist Dr. Myron T. Strong, painted it. It is entitled "Guardian". If you are interested in seeing it or purchasing a print, you can do so at his website.
For more on Dr. Fletcher visit her website: www.kamifletcher.weebly.com and/or contact her on Twitter using @kamifletcher36
How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?
To cite this episode, you can use the following citation: Fletcher, K. (2022) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 12 January 2022. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.18272015
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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
The Death Studies Podcast
02/01/22 • 51 min
What's the episode about?
In this episode, hear Dr Kate Woodthorpe discuss funeral practice and policy, state funeral support, death and loss as relational, public dying and working in academia.
Who is Kate?
Kate Woodthorpe became CDAS (the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath, UK) Co-Director in 2021, having joined CDAS in January 2010, and acting as Programme Leader for the Foundation Degree in Funeral Services until 2012.
Kate has had articles and book chapters published on funeral costs, state support for funerals, mortuary practice, professional development, cemetery usage, the experience of researching in this area, and public dying.
She is on the editorial board for Death Studies, Bereavement Care, Sociology, and Mortality, which she co-edited until 2019.
She has advised the UK Government on funeral policy over many years, including in 2016 as a Special Adviser to the Government's Work and Pensions Select Committee Inquiry on Bereavement Benefits, and provided evidence in 2019 to the Competition and Market's Authority Funeral Sector Investigation.
She is keen to support the next generation of academics and has published a book for PhD students and early career colleagues entitled 'Survive and Thrive in Academia: the new academic's pocket mentor' (2018, Routledge).
How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?
To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:
Woodthorpe, K. (2022) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 February 2022. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19102700
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In this episode, hear Dr Panagiotis Pentaris discuss thanatology, hospice social work, bereavement therapy, end-of-life strategy, religious literacy in hospice care and death in a transhumanist and posthumanist society.
Who is Panagiotis?
He was formerly an Associate Professor of Social Work and Thanatology in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Greenwich, England, UK, where he was also a member of the Institute for Lifecourse Development.
Panagiotis is a council member for the Association for the Study of Death and Society, the Chair of the ASDS Ambassadors Scheme, a Research Fellow for the Faiths & Civil Society Unit at Goldsmiths, and over the last ten years he has researched and published on death, dying, bereavement, culture and religion, social work, social policy and LGBTQIA+ issues.
Panagiotis is licensed in Social Work. He has practised social work in the field of thanatology, notably with dying children and adults, and bereaved individuals; he has practised both internationally and nationally. Positions held include hospice social worker, independent bereavement therapist, and social policy consultant regarding end of life strategies and palliative and hospice care guidance, as well as disaster social work.
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To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:
Pentaris, P. (2022) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 March 2022. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI:10.6084/m9.figshare.19267499
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Jason Danely on ageing, Japan, loss, ageing subjectivities unwitnessed death and anthropology
The Death Studies Podcast
01/01/23 • 63 min
What's the episode about?
In this episode, hear Jason Danely discuss ageing, Japan, loss, ageing subjectivities unwitnessed death and anthropology.
Who is Jason?
Jason Danely is a Reader in Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, where he is the Chair of the Healthy Ageing and Care Research Innovation and Knowledge Exchange Network.
Having studied Comparative Religions and Asian Studies before pursuing his PhD in Anthropology, Jason's research began as an exploration of the ritual lives of older people in urban Japan.
This research tells the story of Japan's aging society through detailed portraits of older men and women as they actively anticipate their own deaths while caring for and memorializing their ancestors.
This research led to his first book, Aging and Loss: Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan (2014 Rutgers University Press). This work led to research on unpaid caregivers of older family members, who experience similar feelings of grief and loss, often leading to a deeper appreciation for end of life care.
His most recent book, released in October 2022, is titled Fragile Resonance: Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England (Cornell University Press). His current research looks again at experiences at loss from the perspective of formerly incarcerated older people.
How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?
To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:
Danely, S. (2022) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 January 2023. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.21800922
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FAQ
How many episodes does The Death Studies Podcast have?
The Death Studies Podcast currently has 44 episodes available.
What topics does The Death Studies Podcast cover?
The podcast is about Podcasts, Social Sciences and Science.
What is the most popular episode on The Death Studies Podcast?
The episode title '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' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Death Studies Podcast?
The average episode length on The Death Studies Podcast is 71 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Death Studies Podcast released?
Episodes of The Death Studies Podcast are typically released every 29 days, 18 hours.
When was the first episode of The Death Studies Podcast?
The first episode of The Death Studies Podcast was released on Sep 17, 2021.
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