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PeopleCDAS membersCDAS members are predominantly based in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. You can contact the members directly through these pages. If you are unsure of who to contact with any enquiry, please email cdas@bath.ac.uk in the first instance and we will direct you to the appropriate person.
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Director Tony Walter Tony is Professor of Death Studies (half-time) at the University of Bath. Prior to this, Tony was a freelance writer before becoming a Lecturer, then Reader in Sociology at the University of Reading. He holds a PhD from the University of Aberdeen, the subject of which was an interactionist study of a school for young offenders. Tony also works with the churches and Civil Ceremonies Ltd, training funeral celebrants. Tony is the book review editor of the journal Mortality and programmes the CDAS seminar series and annual conference. Four themes have consistently been present within Tony’s’ work:
Tony recently presented a paper at a conference in Romania: 'Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe'. The paper is entitled, The Presence of the Dead in Society. Click here to download a copy of the presentation in word. (opens in new window) Research Interests
Publications Tony has written and published extensively on a number of subjects from the sociology of death, to sociology of religion and unemployment/social security. He has published 50 articles in referred scholarly journals, 24 book chapters and over 100 articles in encyclopedias, professional journals, serious magazines and newspapers. His books include the following: On Bereavement: the culture of grief The Mourning for Diana The Eclipse of Eternity – a sociology of the afterlife The Revival of Death Pilgrimage in Popular Culture Funerals- and how to improve them Recent articles include: (2011) Abel, J., Bowra, J., Walter, T. and Howarth, G. Compassionate community networks: supporting home dying. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 1 (2), pp. 129-133. (2011) Walter, T., Hourizi, R., Moncur, W. and Pitsillides, S. Does the internet change how we die and mourn? Overview and analysis. Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, 64 (4), pp. 275-302. (2011) Walter, T. Angels not souls: Popular religion in the online mourning for British celebrity Jade Goody. Religion, 41 (1), pp. 29-51. (2010) Walter, T. Grief and culture: a checklist. Bereavement Care, 29 (2), pp. 5-9. (2010) ' Jade and the Journalists: media coverage of a young British celebrity dying of cancer. Social Science & Medicine, 71 (5), pp. 853-860. (2009) ‘Jade’s Dying Body: the ultimate reality show’, Sociological Research Online, 14(5). http://www.socresonline.org.uk/14/5/1.html (opens in new window) (2009) ‘Grief and the Separation of Home and Work’, Death Studies, 33: 402-410. (2008) 'To See for Myself: informed consent and the culture of openness' Journal of Medical Ethics Vol 34 (9) pp675-8 (opens in new window) (2008) ‘Sociology of Death’, Sociology Compass, 2(1): 317-336. DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00069.x (opens in new window)
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A comprehensive list of Tony’s publications, and more information about his research is available here to download. View further information about Tony, click here. (opens in new window) To hear Tony talk about his work, visit www.ukfuturetv.com.tonywalter.wmv (external site, opens in new window) To view a more comprehensive list of Tony's publications and research, visit the University of Bath's Opus store.
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Deputy Director John Troyer John received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society in May 2006. His Ph.D. dissertation, entitled "Technologies of the Human Corpse, " was awarded the University of Minnesota's 2006 Best Dissertation Award in the Arts and Humanities. From 2007-2008 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University teaching the cultural studies of science and technology. Within the field of death studies, John focuses on delineating and defining the concept of the dead human subject. He believes that his research on death and dying, coupled with the cultural studies approach to understanding the global history of science and technology complements the work already occurring in CDAS. John's first book,'Technologies of the Human Corpse', will be published in 2012 by the University of North Carolina Press. John is in the closing stages of a case study looking at mecury emissions and heat capture technology in UK crematoria. Read more in our research pages Research interests include:
Selected publications (2010) (2008) (2007) Selected conference papers and presentations 2011 Death and Technology: Shifts in Applications and Public Perceptions 2011 A Labor of Death and A Labor Against Death: Memorial Tattoos in Late Modernity Keynote presentation 2011 Morbid Ink: Field Notes on the Human Memorial Tattoo 2011 Death without Limits and Living without Ends: The Anachronism of Dying 2011 The Death Reference Desk: Informing the Casually Interested and the Morbidly Curious about All Things Death 2010 'A labour of death and a labour against death: memorial tattooing in late moderntity' To read more about John's work, visit the University of Bath's Opus store
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Hannah Rumble I completed my PhD in 2010 at the University Durham. Entitled, ‘“Giving something back”: A case study of natural burial and human experience at Barton Glebe’, this research engages with the recent innovation in British funerary rites known as ‘natural’ burial’ through an interview-based case study of one particular natural burial site called Barton Glebe in Cambridgeshire. This research was facilitated by a Collaborative Doctoral Award within the Religion and Society Programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). My thesis is available to download at http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/679/. I am also an Honorary Associate in the Department of Theology and Religion, Centre for Death and Life Studies, at the University of Durham where I have co-authored a book with Professor Douglas Davies in which findings from my doctoral research are discussed in relation to wider issues of spirituality and funeral innovation in contemporary Britain- Natural Burial: Traditional - Secular Spiritualities and Funeral Innovation. Together with Prof. Davies, I collaboratively produced 30 minute documentary with the film maker, Sarah Thomas: Earth to Earth: Natural burial and the Church of England funded through the Wolfson Research Institute at Durham University. I have taught on the unit, ‘Death, Ritual and Belief’ at the University of Durham, along with other undergraduate and postgraduate courses in social science and anthropology. Research Interests Life Cycles / Natural Burial / Therapeutic Landscapes / Emotional Geographies / Constructions of Nature / Nature-Society Relations / Socio-cultural Anthropology / Social Research Methods / Fieldwork / Indigenous Knowledge / Participatory and Action Research / Spirituality / Death and Digital Society / Religion and Science / Rites of passage / Death and Dying / Jainism / Hinduism / South Asia (particularly Bangladesh) / South East Asia (particularly Malaysia, Thailand, Laos) Teaching FDSc Funeral Services Degree: ‘Spirituality, Religion and Secularisation’ Publications Monographs and Edited Volumes: Book Reviews: Rumble, H. (2010) Mourning Religion Culture and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Journal Routlegde, 11(1):89-90. Rumble, H. (2005) Science, Magic and Religion: The ritual processes of museum magic. Durham Anthropology Journal 13(2). Conference Proceedings: Rumble, H. (2009) ‘Woodland’ Burial: A contemporary burial innovation in Britain in Proceedings of Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, International Conference, Alba Iulia, Romania 25-27th September 2009 (2nd Edition) Non-peer Review Publications: Rumble, H. (2011/12) Woodland Burials: A natural end in Inspired Times Magazine Issue 11, pp. 32-33 I have also collaborated on an article in the New Scientist (Knight, H. Way to Go Issue 2825, pp. 44-47). Podcasts & Blogs: Rumble, H. (2010) Burial Study Breaks New Ground AHRC Religion and Society. Rumble, H. (2011) Postgraduates on Writing ‘Writing across Boundaries’ project funded by the ESRC in the Dept. for Anthropology, University of Durham Rumble, H. (2012) Natural Burial and End-of-Life Experiences SevenPonds Blog interview. Public Engagement Activities - Film Screenings & Talks as an invited speaker in 2011 include the following: 16th March – Arnos Vale Cemetery. Public premier of film. http://www.goodfuneralguide.co.uk/category/natural-burial/page/2/ 16th April – Association of Natural Burial Grounds AGM at Chiltern Wood. 14th May - Winchester Death Day at the University of Winchester. 22nd June – Arbory Trust Open Day, Cambridge. 9-10th July - London Funeral Exhibition at Epping Forest. 21st July - St. Monica’s Trust care homes, Bristol.
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Paula Smith Paula joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath in February 2008 and her post is linked to the Centre for Death and Society in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences. Paula is a Chartered Health Psychologist who also has a nursing background. Her PhD, from the University of Southampton, concerned the support needs of family caregivers in palliative care settings, after which she worked as a Research Fellow on a number of palliative and end of life studies. More recently, Paula has been a lecturer in nursing and was Course Leader for the MSc in Palliative Care at the University of Sheffield. In the past, Paula has been a committee member of the Palliative Care Research Society and has helped to organise the Palliative Care Congress. Paula is currently a member of the steering group of Help the Hospices 'Care for the Carer' project, a five year project aimed at highlighting and supporting carers in hospice settings. Research Interests
Publications Edited Book Walker J., Payne S., Smith P., & Jarrett N. (2007) Book chapters Smith P.C., & Skilbeck J. (2008) Smith P.C. (2007) Smith P.C., Wiles R., Davey C., & Ashburn A. (2007) Journal Articles Schofield P.A., Smith, P., & Aveyard, B. (2007) Schofield, P., Smith, P., Aveyard, B., & Black, C. (2007) Aveyard, B., Schofield, P., Smith, P., & Black, C. (2007) Seymour J., Payne S., Reid D., Sargeant A., Skilbeck J., Smith P. (2005) Payne S., Sheldon F., Jarrett N., Large S., Smith P. Davis C., Turner P., & George S. (2002) Reports Smith P.C., Payne S., Ramcharan P., Chapman A., Patterson M. (2006) Schofield P., Smith P., Clarke A., Faulkner M, Ryan T., Kirshbaum M., Aveyard B., Dunham M., Gell L., Steel K., & Keogh T. (2006) Smith P.C., Sque M., & Davies M. (2005) Other Publications Schofield, P., & Smith, P.C. (2007)
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Christine Valentine Christine holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Bath, which focused on the social and cultural shaping of grief and bereavement. The findings from her PhD research form the basis of her book published in 2008 by Routledge as Bereavement Narratives: Continuing Bonds in the 21st Century (See CDAS publications for details). Christine’s interest in the social and cultural aspects of bereavement has included carrying out further research in the Japanese context. Based at the University of Tokyo from October 2007 to September 2008, she interviewed bereaved Japanese individuals about their experiences of losing loved ones and how they negotiated traditional ancestral ideas and forms in a secular, postindustrial context. The findings from her research in both UK and Japanese contexts have been published in various articles and edited collections (see publications list). Christine teaches on various units for undergraduate sociology, the MSc Death and Society and the Funeral Services Foundation Degree. She runs the Sensitive Research Group, which provides support and a forum for postgraduates and staff encountering sensitive issues in their research. She has delivered lectures and conference presentations on both theoretical and methodological aspects of researching death and bereavement. Chrsitine is a founder member of the Association for the Study of Death and Society (ASDS). Christine is currently a member of teaching staff and so her Visiting status has been rescinded whilst she undertakes this work. Selected publications Valentine, C (2010) Valentine, C. (2010) Valentine, C. (2010) Valentine, C. (2009) Valentine, C. (2009) Valentine, C. (2009). Valentine, C. (2009) Valentine, C. (2009) Valentine, C. (2009) Valentine, C. (2008) Valentine, C. (2007) Valentine, C. (2006)
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Kate Woodthorpe Kate joined CDAS in January 2010 as Programme Leader for the Foundation Degree in Funeral Services. Previously, Kate was a Lecturer in Health Studies at the Open University. Since completing her PhD in 2007 Kate has had articles and book chapters published on the cemetery environment and the experience of researching in this area. Her current research with Dr Carol Komaromy involves examining the work of Anatomical Pathology Technologists. The convenor of the British Sociological Association study group, ‘Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement’, Kate has presented papers at a range of academic and non academic conferences, such as the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management Annual Conference. Research Interests
Kate will be happy to supervise PhD students in related areas. Please contact her for an informal chat. Recent publications include Woodthorpe, K., (2011). Forthcoming. Using bereavement theory to understand memorialising behaviour. Bereavement Care Woodthorpe, K. (2011) Forthcoming. Sustaining the contemporary cemetery: implementing policy alongside conflicting perspectives and purpose Mortality (accepted for publication 2011) Tilley, E., Woodthorpe, K., 2011. Is it the end for anonymity as we know it? A critical examination of the ethical principle of anonymity in the context of twenty first century demands on the qualitative researcher. Qualitative Research Woodthorpe, K., 2010. Researching death: methodological reflections on the management of critical distance..International Journal of Social Research Methodology Woodthorpe, K. (2010) ‘Public Dying: Death, the Media and Jade Goody’, Sociology Compass (opens in a new window) Hockey, J., Komaromy, C. and Woodthorpe, K. (eds) (2010) The Matter of Death: space, place and materiality (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Woodthorpe, K. ‘Bodies, boundaries and taboo: the public yet private cemetery landscape’ in Hockey, J., Komaromy, C. and Woodthorpe, K. (eds) (2010) The Matter of Death: space, place and materiality (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Woodthorpe, K. ‘Buried Bodies in the Cemetery: re-visiting taboo’, in Sidaway, J. and Maddrell, A, (eds) (2010) Deathscapes: places for death, dying and bereavement (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate) Woodthorpe, K. (2009) ‘Reflecting on death: the emotionality of the research encounter’, Mortality, 14, 1: 70-86. Meyer, M. and Woodthorpe, K. (2008) ‘The Absence of Presence: a dialogue between cemeteries and museums’, Sociological Research Online, 13, 5. Phillips, D.. Hagan, T., Bodfield, E., Woodthorpe, K. and Grimsley, M. (2008) ‘Exploring the Impact of Groupwork and Mentoring for Multiple Heritage Children’s Self-Esteem, Well-Being and Behaviour’, Health and Social Care in the Community, 16, 3: 310-321. Woodthorpe, K. (2007) ‘Life after Death: the field, the feelings and the findings’, Anthropology Matters, vol. 9 (1), 1-11. Woodthorpe, K. (2007) ‘Life after Death: the field, the feelings and the findings’, Anthropology Matters, vol. 9 (1), 1-11. For further information about Kate click here (opens new window) To view a comprehensive list of Kate's publications and research, visit the University of Bath's Opus store
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General Staff
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Caron Staley
Caron worked intensively with the Programme Leaders to develop the Foundation Degree in Funeral Services. Caron works with CDAS members to develop research proposal submissions, particularly financial and dissemination information, and is involved with a number of current research projects as a member of the project team. As Operations Manager for Tate Membership and Ticketing Services at Tate Modern in London, Caron co-managed many highly successful exhibitions including Surrealism (2001), Warhol (2002) and MatissePicasso (2002). During this time, she also managed a weekly rotating programme of films, events, and lectures as well as larger events programmes such as the Tate and Egg Live series involving performers such as DV8, Nick Cave, the Monteverdi Choir and PJ Harvey. In September 2004, Caron joined the newly formed Science Learning Centres as coordinator for the South West region, delivering high quality continuing professional development to science educators. Caron spearheaded the management of the Centre during her two years there, successfully delivering courses to over 2000 people in that time. She has also helped to forge many links with local Universities and Local Authorities.
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Trudi Gilbank Trudi has a background in administration within the Civil Service having worked for the Insolvency Service for many years, most recently as the Senior Office Manager at the Office of the Official Receiver, Bristol. She was responsible for all recruitment, induction and training and for the day to day running of the office and the team of 30 administration staff. She worked throughout the South West as a NVQ assessor, ran recruitment campaigns across the country and was involved with various focus groups and initiatives looking into Insolvency policy and legislation. She joined the Centre for Death & Society in December 2011 as the Administrator for the Foundation Degree in Funeral Services.
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Visiting Professors
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Glennys Howarth BA, PhD (London) Glennys is Professor of Health Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. Professor Howarth launched CDAS in 2005 and was its Director until 2009, before returning to Australia to take her new post in the University of Sydney's Faculty of Health Sciences. Professor Howarth has also held posts at the University of Sussex and the London School of Economics where she was T.H.Marshall Fellow in the Department of Sociology. She has been researching and publishing in the field of death and dying for almost twenty years. Glennys was a Founding-Editor of Mortality, the first European journal of death studies. She was closely involved with the series of conferences on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal, the first of which she co-organised with Peter Jupp in 1992. Research Interests
Publications Key publications in these fields include: Books G. Howarth (2007) G. Howarth & O. Leaman (eds) (2001) E. Hallam, G. Howarth and J. Hockey (1999) G. Howarth (1996) P. C. Jupp & G. Howarth (eds) (1997) K. Charmaz, G. Howarth & A. Kellehear (eds) (1997) G. Howarth & P.C. Jupp (eds) (1996) Articles and book chapters G. Howarth (2008) G. Howarth (2007) ‘Whatever happened to social class? An examination of the neglect of working class cultures in the sociology of death’, Health Sociology Review, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp425-435. G. Howarth (2007) ‘The social context of death in old age’, Working with Older People, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp17-21. G. Howarth (2007) Gilchrist, H. Howarth, G. and Sullivan, G. (2007) G. Howarth (2001) G. Howarth (2000) G. Howarth (1998) G. Howarth (1998) G. Howarth and M. Jefferys (1996) G. Howarth (1993) G. Howarth (1993)
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Malcolm Johnson, AcSS, FRSA Malcolm has been Professor of Health and Social Policy at the University of Bristol (now Emeritus) since 1995. Between 1984 and 1995 he was Professor of Health and Social Welfare and subsequently first Dean of the School of Health and Social Welfare at the Open University. He is a former Secretary of the BSA Medical Sociology Group and of the British Society of Gerontology and was Founding Editor (volumes 1-12) of the international journal Ageing and Society. Also founding Associate Editor of Sociology of Health and Illness. Malcolm has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at several North American universities. He is Director of the International Institute on Health and Ageing. Recognitions of Malcolm's contributions include being elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. In 2007 his transformation of research into training on End of Life Care in Care Homes, received the Independent Healthcare Award and was runner up in The Guardian Public Service Awards. Research Interests His research and academic interests are wide, including the social aspects of health and illness, biographical studies, social policy analysis, death and dying and his major specialism, ageing and the lifespan. Of his nine books and around 150 monographs, chapters and articles, more than half relate to ageing. Malcolm’s research and consultancy includes extensive work on the long term care of older people, theories of ageing and on assessment issues. Over the past fifteen years he has extended into end of life care and spirituality in later life. At the Open University he lead the development of the course P260 Death and Dying which has been studied by approaching 40,000 students. His latest book, The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing, which attempts to provide an interdisciplinary and international coverage of research on ageing (including the end of life), is recently published. Publications (select list relevant to CDAS) Johnson, M. (2010) Co-ordinating Editor Malcolm Johnson (General Editor) in association with Vern Bengtson, Peter Coleman and Tom Kirkwood. (2005/ 2006 in US) Malcolm Johnson (2005) Vern Bengtson, Norella Putney, Malcolm Johnson (2005) Malcolm Johnson (2002) Malcolm Johnson, Lesley Cullen, Rose Heatley, Jenny Hockey (2001) Donna Dickenson, Malcolm Johnson (second edition with Jeanne Katz) eds (2000) Death, Dying and Bereavement. London : Sage Publications. 388pp. First edition 1993. Malcolm Johnson, Lesley Cullen, Demi Patsios (1999) Michael Young, Malcolm Johnson, Peter Jupp, Tony Walter et al (1999) Interdependency and the generational compact. (1998) In Meredith Minkler and Carroll Estes (eds) Critical Gerontology : Perspectives from Political and Moral Economy. New York : Baywood. pp55-74.
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Visiting Research Fellows
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Clare Gittings Clare Gittings read history at the University of East Anglia and at St Anne’s College, Oxford; her M. Litt. thesis was published as Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England (Croom Helm, 1984). She taught primary school children for eight years and spent two years as a VSO volunteer, training teachers in the Republic of Maldives. In 1989 she joined the National Portrait Gallery as Education Officer (now Learning Manager). As well as running the schools programme at the NPG, she has curated exhibitions on such subjects as ideas of beauty through the ages, women and gardens and women travellers. She contributed catalogue essays to two exhibitions about death at Dulwich Picture Gallery on the Digby family (1995) and on Sir John Soane (1995-6), as well as chapters in various edited volumes on death. With Peter Jupp she co-edited Death in England: an illustrated history (Manchester University Press, 1999). She is on the editorial board of Mortality and has previously taught on the ‘Death and Society’ MA at the University of Reading (1999-2002). She has a particular interest in visual sources for studying the history of death in the early modern period and is current working on unusual eighteenth-century burials. Clare teachers a number of sessions looking at ‘The Social Context of Death and Dying’ on our MSc in Death & Society Recent publications and presentations inlcude: Gittings, C. and Walter, T. (2010) ’Rest in peace? Burial on private land’ In: Sidaway, J. and Maddrell, A., (eds.) Deathscapes: Spaces For Death, Dying and Bereavement, Aldershot: Ashgate. Walter, T. and Gittings, C. (2010) What will the neighbours say? Reactions to field and garden burial. In: Hockey, J., Komaromy, C. and Woodthorpe, K., (eds) The Matter of Death: Space, Place and Materiality. Palgrave Macmillan. ‘Framed: Portraits of the dead in portraits of the living’ Back to Visiting Research Fellows
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Dr. K. Suresh Kumar Dr. Kumar holds a BSc in Chemistry, an M.B.B.S., a Diploma in Anaesthesiology and an MA in Sociology, all from Calicut University, Kerala, India, and a Diploma in Palliative Medicine from the University of Wales, UK. He is currently Director of the Institute of Palliative Medicine, Kozhikode, Kerala, India. He was awarded the AV Abdurahiman Hajee award for innovation in education in civil society in 2009. Dr Kumar was made a Visiting Fellow of the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath in 2010. Research Dr Kumar’s areas of special interest include:
Publications Recent publications include: Graham, F., Kumar, S. and Clark, D. (2010) Sallnow, L., Kumar, S. and Numpeli, M. (2010) Pastrana, T., Vallath, N., Mastrojohn, J., Namukwaya, E., Kumar, S., Radbruch, L. and Clark D. (2010) Kumar, S. (2009) Recent keynotes and other activities include: Coordinator, National Workshop and Strategy planning on Palliative Care in Seychelles Coordinator,National Workshop on Palliative Care Keynote address “Palliative Care” Keynote address,“Palliative care embedded in the community” Back to Visiting Research Fellows
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Wendy Mocur, PhD Wendy Moncur gained her PhD in 2011 from the University of Aberdeen. Entitled “A model for the provision of adaptive eHealth updates across the personal social network”; research was conducted in the area of interactive, adaptive e-Health technology. Wendy received the following awards for her PhD research:
Wendy was awarded a prestigious UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Postdoctoral Cross-Disciplinary Research Fellowship in March 2011 which commenced on May16th 2011. Further details about this project can be viewed on our research pages. In addition, Wendy lectures at the University of Dundee, Department of Computer Science. Selected publications: Moncur, W., Reiter, E., Masthoff, J., Carmichael, A.(2010). Gatt, A. ,Portet, F.,Reiter, E., Hunter, J., Mahamood, S., Moncur, W., Sripada, S. (2009). Selected conference papers: Moncur, W. (2011) Moncur, M.,Waller, A. (2010) Moncur, W., Masthoff, J., Reiter, E. (2008)
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Una MacConville BA(Hon), MA, PhD Una MacConville, PhD, is a sociologist and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Death and Society. Her research interests are palliative care, religion and spirituality, roadside memorials, after-life communication, end-of-life care needs for people with dementia and cultural aspects of death, dying and bereavement. Una was previously a member of the organising committee for the international Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal (DDD8) conference in 2007 and DDD 7, in 2005, both of which were held in Bath. She is formerly a member of the steering group of the Bereavement Research Forum (UK). Una has most recently conducted research on deathbed experiences, including deathbed visions, in Irish palliative care, funded by the Irish Hospice Foundation and St Francis Hospice. She is also involved in a range of research and teaching activities. Current research and Consultancies 2009-2011 Capturing the invisible: exploring deathbed experiences in Irish palliative care. Funded by the Irish Hospice Foundation and St Francis Hospice. Opening Conversations: Developing a model for the Alzheimer Society of Ireland of best practice palliative care interventions for people with dementia and their carers. Funded by the Irish Hospice Foundation and the Alzheimer Society of Ireland. Evaluation of shared model of care initiative for patients with non-complex palliative care needs. Funded by the Irish Hospice Foundation Organisational review of Community Specialist Palliative Care services at St Francis Hospice. Curriculum Development: Development of a Post Graduate Certificate and Diploma and Palliative Medicine, St Francis Hospice and University College Dublin. An investigation of the role of hospice day care in the care of patients with terminal illness. Previous work includes: An evaluation of Cruse bereavement services, Bath, UK. Educational Una regularly contributes to the MSc in Palliative Care (Trinity College Dublin and St Francis Hospice) and the MSc in Bereavement Studies (Royal College of Surgeons and The Irish Hospice Foundation). She supervises MSC students from both these programmes. Forthcoming and recent publications MacConville, U. ( 2011) A ‘good death’ in Ireland: mapping the edge of death and dying, Edwin Mellon Press, Lampeter. MacConville, U. and McQuillan, R. (2010), ‘Potent reminders: an examination of responses to roadside memorials in Ireland in Hockey, Komaromy and Woodthorpe (eds) The Matter of Death: space, place and materiality, Palgrave. MacConville, U. and McQuillan, R. (2009) ‘A figurational approach: views of communication and awareness of death and dying in Ireland’. Irish Journal of Sociology, Vol. 17.2, pp. 41–55 MacConville, U. ‘Mapping religion and spirituality in an Irish palliative care setting’ Omega, 2006 Volume 53 1-2, 137-52 MacConville, U. and McQuillan, R ‘Continuing the tradition: roadside memorials in Ireland’, 2005, Archaeology Ireland, 19: 1, 26–30 Conference presentations November 2010 June 2010. February 2010 2006 Montréal, Canada: 16th International Congress on Care of the Terminally Ill Venice, Italy. European Association of Palliative Care Sligo, Ireland. Annual conference of Sociological Association of Ireland |
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