Research
Scope and collaborations
We undertake academic research as well as research commissioned by the government, charities and businesses with concern for end-of-life issues.
We also give independent non-partisan policy advice to government and its departments. We promote co-operation between organisations that deal with end-of-life issues and act as a communication gateway to others working in this field.
Our membership includes staff from across the University of Bath as well as associates both internal and external. This enables us to pull together experts from a huge range of subject areas; academics, practitioners, service users and administrators.
We work across many of the research themes of the Department of Social & Policy Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, and a number of our projects also involve themes linked to other faculties.
Current and recent projects
What are we saving for?
Principal Investigator: Kate Woodthorpe
Dates: February 2013 - September 2013
Funder: Sunlife Direct
Amount: £50,000
Engaging young people with death & natural burial
Principal Investigator: John Troyer
Dates: January 2013 - April 2013
Funder: AHRC
Amount: £25,791
Understanding and responding to those bereaved through their family members' substance misuse
Principal Investigator: Tony Walter
Dates: September 2012 - August 2015
Funder: ESRC
Amount: £461,000
Digital Inheritance
Principal Investigator: Wendy Moncur
Dates: May 2011 - April 2014
Funder: EPSRC
Amount: £380,000
Extending end of life care with social media
Principal Investigator: Malcolm Johnson, Tony Walter
Dates: July 2011 - January 2012 funded, Project ongoing
Funder: Knowledge Transfer Champion fund, University of Bath
Amount: £10,000
The presence of the dead in society
Principal Investigator: Tony Walter
Dates: Ongoing
Unfunded
How and why different societies manage death differently
Principal Investigator: Tony Walter
Dates: Ongoing
Unfunded
Angels and bereavement
Principal Investigator: Tony Walter
Dates: Ongoing
Unfunded
Compassionate Community Networks
Principal Investigator: Tony Walter
Dates: Ongoing
Unfunded
R.I.P.
Principal Investigator: Jordan Baseman
Participants: Kate Woodthorpe, John Troyer
Dates: Ongoing
Funder: Wellcome Trust
A labor of death and a labor against death: Memorial tattoos in late modernity
Principal Investigator: John Troyer
Dates: 2009 - Present
Unfunded
The Future Cemetery Project
Principal Investigator: John Troyer
Dates: April 2012 - June 2012
Funder: AHRC, REACT Heritage Sandbox
Amount: £43,471
Affording a Funeral
Principal Investigator: Kate Woodthorpe
Dates: December 2011 - June 2012
Funder: AXA Sunlife Direct and Univeristy of Bath
Amount: £70,000
