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PeopleCDAS associatesAnne Beckett-Allen
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Tutors on the FDSc Funeral services, CDAS members, associates and PhD students, September 2008 |
Many associates listed here are tutors on our FDSc in Funeral Services at the University of Bath. For more information on this course, visit our education page Other associates work with us on research or have strong historical links to CDAS. |
Anne Beckett-Allen Anne is co-owner of Rosedale Funeral Home Ltd, the first funeral home in the UK to offer a carbon-neutral serivce. Their sixth branch is due to open in September 2011. The company is currently working towards achieving Investors in People status, and earning a Queens Award. Anne has previously had experience of working for The Fairways Partnership Ltd. in many different capacities, including administration and HR, culminating in the position of Deputy Group Operations Director for the UK. She has also worked as a marketing consultant for Woodland Burial Parks in Norwich, Epping and Chiltern. Anne holds the Diploma in Funeral Directing, the Higher Diploma in Funeral Directing and an MA in Business Administration from the University of East Anglia. She is a registered British Institute of Funeral Directors tutor, and VQ assessor for the National Association of Funeral Directors. She is currently working towards 2 teaching qualifications, Preparing for Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTTLS), and Certificate for Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (CTLLS). Anne teaches the three Developing Professional Competence units on the Foundation Degree in Funeral Service.
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Ana Draper Dr Ana Draper is a Macmillan consultant systemic psychotherapist working in a Academically, Ana has taught in a variety of setting including the Tavistock Clinic, KCC international, and Kings College, London. She is developing, with Dr Paula Smith, placements for University of Bath psychology students in the psychological care of patients and their families facing a life limiting illness, and the care of bereaved children. Collaborative research opportunities are also being explored. Her research interest has been bereavement in childhood and the emergence of spiritual stories in dying. She has published diversely, from Christian theology to systemic psychotherapy journals.
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Ron Dunn Ron is a Fellow of the Institute of and Crematorium Management (ICCM) and a Member of The Institute of Sports, Parks and Leisure (ISPAL). He has over 20 years experience in the management of cemeteries and crematoria, 15 years of which he worked with a Direct Services Organisation with responsibility for a wide range of operational services. During this time Ron assisted in a number of cemetery and crematorium research projects and assisted in developing national guidance. Ron worked for the ICCM for almost 7 years, providing a wide range of consultancy, training and national guidance. In particular he has been the lead officer with the Ministry of Justice on the development of guidance on memorial safety and has written the ICCM guidance on this subject, he has been involved in the development of reuse of burial land proposals for all parts of the UK and has led the revision of the ICCM education and training arrangements, seeking to attain national accreditation for all education and training courses provided by the ICCM. Ron was responsible for the establishment of the recycling of metals scheme which is now a major success earning around £30,000 per collection for death related charities in the U.K. He has detailed experience and has assisted in the development of national guidance in relation to the changes in provision brought about by PG5/2(04), the mercury abatement statutory guidance, and is fully conversant of the range of ways in which this can be implemented. Ron also has a wide range of commercial and practical experience that he brings to assist with the development of Bereavement Services throughout the UK. He currently works as an Independent Consultant, primarily with clients in Local Authorities, Private Sector contractors and Primary Care Trusts. Ron convenes the unit, ‘Green Issues – the impact on business’, on the Foundation Degree in Funeral Services
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Lucy Easthope Lucy specialises in Disaster Management with a particular interest in the care of the bereaved and the deceased. She provides lecturing, training and examination services for various UK University and practitioner courses. She has participated in the response to several incidents including aviation disasters, the Bali terrorist attacks, and the operations at Brize Norton during the military campaign in Iraq. Lucy has also led numerous training and exercise events and provided contingency plans for organisations internationally. Lucy is the Associate Course Director for the Cabinet Office Emergency Planning College (Specialism: Legal Aspects, Recovery and Mass Fatalities courses). She is also consultant on behalf of the Cabinet Office: Guidance Inventory Project as part of the National Resilience Intranet , advisor to the Cabinet Office National Recovery Group with a specific focus on training and exercising and advisor to the Metropolitan Police Family Liaison Team and Contingency Planning Unit. Lucy convenes the Mass Fatalities, disasters and pandemics unit on the Foundation Degree in Funeral Services. Selected publications Easthope, L. (Forthcoming 2012) Mass Fatalities: Reflections on planning and managing death in disaster. Easthope, L. (2010) Talking to the Tutors, Funeral Director Monthly, 93 (12), pp53-55 Easthope, L. (2008) 'Returning Property after death and disaster' in Earle, S., Bartholomew, C. and Komaromy, C. (eds) Making Sense of Death, Dying and Bereaveemnt: An Anthology'. The Open University Easthope, L. & Eyre, A. (2008) 'Planning for and Manageing Emergencies: A Good Practice Giuode for HEIS.' AUSCO in association with HEFCE Selected presentations Forthcoming ‘The meaning of ‘things’: returning personal effects after disaster’ ‘Turning Inquest Findings Into Reality’ ‘The meaning of ‘things’: The return of personal belongings’ ‘The meaning of ‘things’: The return of personal belongings’ ‘Behind Closed Doors: The perpetuation of Myth after death in disaster’ ‘Emergency Preparedness and Response’ You can download a list of Lucy's publications, presentations and other activities here (new window).
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Rachel Fearnley Rachel completed her PhD in 2010 at the University of Derby. Her research explored children's experiences when a parent is at the end of life and was entitled, 'A Lonely Place to Be: Children's Experiences of Living with a Parent who is Dying'. Rachel has worked for many years with children and their families in different social care settings. Rachel now works as an independent researcher / consultant. She is a qualified social worker and is registered with the General Social Care Council. She has delivered lectures and training for social work students and health and social care professionals on subjects including supporting children experiencing bereavement, family support and communicating with children. Rachel convenes and teaches the 'Children and Death' unit on the FDSc in Funeral Services. Recent publications Fearnley, R. (Forthcoming) Communicating with Children when a Parent is at the End of life, London: Jessica Kingsley. Fearnley, R. (2010) 'Death of a parent and the children's experiences: Don't ignore the elephant in the room' The Journal of Interprofessional Care, 24 (4) pp450-459. Fearnley, R. (2010) 'Children and bereavement: Living with a dying parent' Inside Palliative Care, 12 July 2010, pp22-23.
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Sheila Harper Sheila’s research focuses on the public perception of dead bodies in different contexts. More broadly, her research interests include the sociology of death, dying and bereavement, sociology of the body, sociology of health and illness, material culture, popular culture, the media, and qualitative methodology. Sheila completed her PhD in 2008 at the University of Bath, UK. Her doctoral research considered how mourners include the dead body within the death ritual. To study this, she developed a comparative ethnographic framework that involved fieldwork in two settings: a funeral directors’ in England and a funeral home in the United States. Sheila has also researched audience interpretation of dead bodies in different public settings, such as within advertising campaigns (models stylised to resemble corpses) and as part of museum exhibitions (ancient human remains). Sheila moved to Sydney in January 2010 to take up a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Health Sciences. She is currently working with Professor Glennys Howarth on a project that investigates public attitudes toward organ donation. Sheila was a founding member of the ASDS, and is delighted to maintain her involvement with the Association as its regional representative for Australia and New Zealand. Recent publications: Harper, S. (forthcoming, 2012) Harper, S. (forthcoming 2011 ). ‘“I’m glad she has her glasses on. That really makes the difference.” Grave goods in English and American death rituals’. Journal of Material Culture Harper, S. (2010) 'The social agency of dead bodies'. Mortality 15(4): 308-322. Harper, S. (2010) ‘Behind closed doors? Corpses and mourners in American and English funeral premises’, Chpt. 7 in J. Hockey, C. Komaromy and K. Woodthorpe (eds.) The Matter of Death: Space, place and materiality. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. Harper, S. (2009) Selected presentations:
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Rachid Hourizi Rachid is interested in the areas of human-computer interaction, situation awareness and trust. More specifically, interested in the design of systems in collaborative settings, which support situation awareness (SA) and, subsequently trust. Whilst the theoretical underpinning of this work has application in many domains from medicine to mountain rescue, much of his own empirical work has been in the domains of aviation and, more recently, autonomous systems. This has led to research funding from both public bodies like the EPSRC and DTI, and from industrial companies such as BAe Systems, Airbus and Qinetiq. Rachid is currently working with Centre Director Prof. Tony Walter and Visiting Prof. Malcolm Johnson, alongside Prof. Peter Johnson from the Department of Computer Science, exploring how to extend end of life care with social media, in collaboration with St. Christopher’s Hospice. Further details on this project will be made avaialble shortly through our research pages. Selected publications Carrigan, N., Forbes, N., Hourizi, R. and Johnson, P., 2010. A framework for managing collaboration and conflict in complex systems. In: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Collaborative Technologies 2010,CT, IADIS Int. Conf. Web Based Communities 2010, Part of the MCCSIS 2010. Lisbon: IADIS, pp. 37-44. Selected conference presentations Johnson, P., Hourizi, R., Carrigan, N. and Forbes, N., 2010. Collaboration and conflict: A framework for large-scale collaborations. In: 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2010), 17-21 May 2010, Chicago, IL, US.
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Rachel Ibreck Rachel joined the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the Univeristy of Bath as a Teaching Fellow in International Development in December 2010 and became a member of CDAS in May 2011. She completed a PhD in the politics of memorialisation of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda at the University of Bristol in 2009 and has since published articles and book chapters based on this research. Her work explores the political significance of trauma and mourning in the aftermath of mass death, including the connections between memorialisation, identity and rights; local, national and international engagements in the construction of memorials; and the contestation surrounding memorials. Rachel has presented papers at academic conferences, including the annual International Studies Association Conference and theInternational Network of Genocide Scholars Conference, and at a range of seminars and workshops, such as the 8th Cambridge Heritage Seminar, Re-visioning the Nation, Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Disaster, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, 12 May 2007 and the Expert Seminar on the African Union Human Rights Memorial, Addis Ababa, 15 November 2010. Research Interests:
Selected publications: Journal articles Ibreck, R. 2010. ‘The Politics of Mourning: Survivor Contributions to Memorials in Post-Genocide Rwanda’. Memory Studies, 3:4, October. Ibreck, R. 2011. ‘International Constructions of National Memories: The Aims and Effects of Donor Support for Genocide Remembrance in Rwanda’, Journal of Statebuilding and Intervention, Special Edition on Cultural Interventions (in press). Book chapters Ibreck, R. 2011.‘The Resistance Memorial, Bisesero, Rwanda’, in Maggie Andrews, Charlie Bagot-Jewitt and Nigel Hunt (eds) Lest We Forget: Rethinking Cultures of Remembrance, The History Press, May. Ibreck, R. (forthcoming 2011/2012) ‘The Time of Mourning: The Politics of Commemorating the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda’ in Public Memory, Public Media, and the Politics of Justice, Philip Lee and Pradip Thomas (eds) in the series Memory Studies edited by Andrew Hoskins and John Sutton, Macmillan. |
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Stephen McCracken Steve McCracken is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a chartered marketer and a Fellow of the Institute of Business Consulting. After a management career that included senior marketing roles with Chrysler, British Aerospace, Rank Xerox and Booker plc, Steve founded FMC, a strategic consultancy firm, in 1988. FMC has developed into the advisory firm of choice in the UK funeral sector. He has led strategic review and market analysis projects with a considerable number of funeral firms across the UK. Many of these firms are the foremost players in their local markets. Steve’s work has extended into assignments in the funeral pre-payment and funeral supplies sector. In addition, FMC are market advisers to the industries leading trade association, the National Association of Funeral Directors. He is a part time tutor on the degree programme in funeral service at the University of Bath, convening the unit, 'Business Management and Ethical Issues in Practice'. Steve has been a guest speaker at a number of funeral sector conferences, including the Co-operative Funeral Service Managers’ Association and the National Association of Funeral Directors.
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Peter Mitchell Peter Mitchell is an independent management consultant specialising in cemetery development, memorial management and exhumation. He has been consulted nationally on a range of projects looking at cemetery and crematorium provision and management, giving legal advice, mercury abatement assistance and undertaking feasibility studies for local authorities. Peter has been involved with some of the most extensive exhumations in the UK in recent years, including the Channel Tunnel Rail Link at St Pancras. He also project manages single exhumations for local, church and police authorities, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and for private individuals. He has previously worked as Superintendent and Registrar of Wrexham Joint Crematorium Committee, General Manager of The Necropolis Company and Director of the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management (I.C.C.M.) Peter convenes the Legislation, Constitutional Change and Accountability unit on the Foundation Degree in Funeral Services.
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Brian Parsons Brian Parsons has worked in the funeral industry in London since 1982. He gained the Diploma in Funeral Directing and became a member of the British Institute of Embalmers in 1984. After working for JH Kenyon as a funeral director and embalmer he embarked upon a BA degree in Business Studies at the University of Westminster followed by a PhD which explored change in the British funeral industry during the twentieth century. In 1997 he returned to SCI (Dignity) as a training consultant for the London area until becoming editor of Funeral Service Journal in 2005. He is now the Features Editor for the FSJ. Brian also lectures on the Foundation Degree in Funeral Service at the University of Bath, convning the units, The History of Funeral Services and Funeral Services: organisation and change. Brian has had a long interest in funeral service education; he became a BIFD registered tutor in 1991, was a member of their Education Committee (in charge of tutor training) and more recently gained a certificate in teaching adults from the University of London. He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management. He has given papers at a number of conferences including Dying, Death and Disposal, the Cremation Society, the British institute of Funeral Directors, The British Institute of Embalmers, the Confederation of Burial Authorities, the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management and the annual Cemeteries Colloquium at the University of York. He has contributed numerous articles to funeral-related journals including Mortality, Pharos International, BIFD Journal, ICCM Journal, Funeral Director Monthly, The Embalmer, FSJ, Thanos and The Director. He has also written essays for The Handbook of Death and Dying and The Encyclopedia of Cremation and Death Our Future. Publications Books Parsons, B. (Forthcoming 2012) ‘From Undertaker to Funeral Director’ (working title) Parsons, B and Mellor, H. (2008) 'London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer', Stroud, UK, The History Press Parsons, B. (2005) JH Kenyon: The First 125 Years Parsons, B. (2005) 'Committed to the Cleansing Flame: The Development of Cremation in Nineteenth Century England', Reading, UK, Spire Books Parsons, B. (2001) The London Way of Death, Sutton Publishing Ltd. Parsons, B. (2008) ‘In Tune with the Needs of the Bereaved: Music at Funerals’ in Jupp P.C. (ed) Death Our Future Parsons, B. (2003) ‘The Funeral and the Funeral Industry in the United Kingdom’ in Bryant, C.D. Handbook of Death & Dying (Part 2) Research papers/major articles (selected) Parsons, B. (2011) The Kitchener Case: The extraordinary story of an empty coffin. Funeral Service Journal, April 2011, 126 (4), pp84-97 Parsons, B. (2010) Funeral Service during the Second World War, Funeral Service Journal, December 2010 Parsons, B. (2010) New or Rediscovered? ICCM Journal, Autumn 2010 Parsons, B. (2010) New or Rediscovered? Funeral Service Journal, July 2010 Parsons, B. (2010) “Lay her I’ the earth” Sir Francis Seymour Haden: Pioneer of Woodland Burial, Funeral Service Journal, November 2010 Parsons, B. (2010) The World’s Greatest Air Tragedy, Funeral Service Journal, October 2010 Parsons, B. (2010) Embalming in the first half of the Twentieth Century: A Few Notable Examples, BIFD Journal, Spring 2010 Parsons, B (2010) Burying Enza: The Spanish ‘Flu and the disposal of the dead in London, ICCM Journal, Spring 2010 Parsons, B. (2003) ‘Conflict in the context of care; an examination of role conflict between the bereaved and the funeral director in the UK’ Mortality Vol 8 No 1 2003 pp 67-87 Parsons, B. (1999) ‘Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. The Lifecycle of the UK Funeral Industry’ Mortality Vol 4 No 2 1999 pp127-145
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Duncan Sayer Duncan Sayer is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire. He also teaches at the University of Bath on the MSc Death & Society, where he contributes to the following modules: ‘The Social Context of Death and Dying’, ‘Ritual and Belief’ and ‘Ethical issues in Research Policy and Practice’. He has a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading. As well as Anglo-Saxon cemeteries, Duncan’s research interests include: kinship and the family, the organisation of cemeteries and social change in medieval, post-medieval and contemporary society and the archaeology of wild and watery places. His research focuses on north-western Europe and he has a professional interest in archaeological practice, methodology and the ethical issues surrounding human remains. Duncan has been a project officer for Oxford Archaeology East, PCA London and ASE Archaeology. He has worked on excavation and survey projects in France, Libya, Scotland, as well as in England. He has excavated a number of notable cemetery sites and was the senior archaeologist at King Cross. He has taught field archaeology since 2001 for a number of universities and has worked at Bibracte, Burgundy, and as a key member of staff at Silchester, Hampshire. Duncan is currently engaged in a number of research projects, and has just published a volume on 'Mortuary Archaeology and Identity in the Middle Ages', for Exeter University Press and is working on 'The Archaeology of Post Medieval Religion', for the society of post-medieval archaeology and church archaeology. Duncan is a founding member of the Association for the Study of Death and Society. Selected publications: Sayer, D. (2010) Ethics and Burial Archaeology. Bristol, Duckworth, Debates in Archaeology. (new window) Sayer, D. ( 2010) Death and the family: developing a generational chronology. Journal of Social Archaeology Vol 10 issue 1 Sayer, D. (2010) Who’s Afraid of the Dead. Archaeology, modernity and the death taboo. World Archaeology, 42(3), pp481-491 Sayer, D. & Pitts, M. (2010) The Human Remains Crisis, British Archaeology, 115, pp34-35 Sayer, D & Williams H (eds) (2009) Mortuary Practice and Social Identities in the Middle Ages. Exeter, The Exeter University Press. Sayer, D. (2009) 'The 7th century Kentish family: considering the evidence from the legal codes and cemetery organisation. In D Sayer & H Williams (eds) Mortuary Practice and Social Identities in the Middle Ages. Exeter: The Exeter University Press. Williams H & Sayer, D. (2009) 'Hall of Mirrors: Death & Identity in Medieval archaeology. In D. Sayer & H Williams (eds) Mortuary Practice and Social Identities in the Middle Ages. Exeter: The Exeter University Press. Sayer, D. (2009) 'Is there a crisis facing British burial archaeology?' Antiquity Vol 83, Number 319, pp199-205. Sayer, D. (2009), 'Medieval waterways and hydraulic economics: monasteries, towns and the East Anglian fen.' World Archaeology Vol 41(1), pp. 134-150. Selected presentations ‘Bones without Barriers: digging the dead without hiding’
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Stephen White Stephen White has held appointments at the London School of Economics, Southampton University, the Australian National University, the Victoria University of Wellington and Oxford University. Most recently he has been a Senior Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University, where he is now teaches Canon and Medical Law as a Visiting Lecturer. He is author of "What Queen Victoria Saw: Roderick Maclean and the Trial of Lunatics Act 1883", and designer and co-editor of "McGregor, Goldman and White's Catalogue of the Published Papers of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (1857-1884)." (opens in new window) Among his other publications are "A Burial Ahead of its Time? The Crookenden Burial Case and the Sanctioning of Cremation in England and Wales" (2002) 7(2) Mortality 171-190, "The Law relating to Dealing with Dead Bodies" (Submission to the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry) (2000) 4(3 & 4) Medical Law International 145-181, "Hindu Cremations in Britain" in Peter Jupp and Glennys Howarth (ed.), "The Changing Face of Death: Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal", Basingstoke 1997, Macmillans, 135-148 and "The Call-Shelley Agreement about Shelley's and Trelawny's Graves" [1989] 4 Keats-Shelley Review 95-100. He is also a member of the Council of the Cremation Society of Great Britain. Stephen contributes to 'The Social Context of Death and Dying' unit on our MSc.
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