The Death Studies Podcast
Episodes
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
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Professor Beverley Clack on philosophyof religion, failure, loss, neoliberalism, thinking about dea...
Cole Imperi on grief, thanatology, shadow loss, and non-clinical tools in support of those experiencing loss and grief
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Cole Imperi on grief, thanatology, shadow loss, and non-clinical tools in support of those experiencing loss and grief.What's the episode about?I...
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
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Nina Vaswani on young men and grief during in imprisonment, childhood bereavement, masculinities ...
Joshua Hurtado Hurtado on postmortal futures, future studies, de-growth, immortality imaginaries, future collective death, Westworld, and promoting your work in 2026
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Todd Meyers on postmortal futures, future studies, de-growth, immortality imaginaries, future col...
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’
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Douglas Davies on thedevelopment of death studies, ‘words against death’, the ‘di...
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
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Jessica Young on assisteddying, the New Zealand End of Life Choice Bill, culturally responsive ...
DDD17: The 2025 Death, Dying and Disposal Conference
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about?In this episode, get an overview of the 2025 Death, Dying and Disposal Conference held in Utrecht in the Netherlands Wha...
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
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Kaylee Alexander discuss the digital humanities, being a research data librarian, visual culture,...
Professor Patricia MacCormack on philosophy, death activism, veganism, antinatalism, necrosexuality, the Anthropocene, dudebros in academia, and a loving and vitalist relationship to death
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Patricia MacCormack on philosophy, death activism, veganism, antinatalism, necrosexuality, the Anth...
Dr. Terri Daniel on toxic theology, healthy theology, complicated grief, being a non-religious chaplain, hospice and loss
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Dr. Terri Daniel on toxic theology, healthy theology, complicated grief, being a non-religious chap...
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
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Sydney Campbell on Medical Assistance in Dying for mature minors, children’s participation, pol...
Professor Claire Nally on literature, Goth, Steampunk, death memoirs, representations of dead women, death positive libraries & working in academia
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about?In this episode, hear Claire Nally on literature, Goth, Steampunk, death memoirs, representations of dead women, death po...
Death and Institutions: Processes, Places and the Past
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about?In this episode, get an overview of the 2025 Edited Collection Death and Institutions: Processes, Places and the Past W...
The 7th International Symposium of the Death Online Research Network (DORS#7) and Tamara Kneese on digital death, genAI, ethics, data, society & collective action
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about?In this episode, hear highlights from the 7th International Symposium of the Death Online Research Network (DORS#7) and T...
Todd Meyers on grief, anthropology, entanglements, addiction, language, overdose death, opioid crisis, life’s incoherence and knowing your limits
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Todd Meyers on grief, anthropology, entanglements, addiction, language, overdose death, opioid cri...
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
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Michele Aaron discuss filmmaking and end of life care, hospice documentary, death and LGBTQIA+ comm...
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
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear live recordings and interviews from the DEATHxDESIGNxCULTURE conference at Falmouth University in S...
Dr. Heidi Kosonen on representations of voluntary death suicide, posthumanism, planetary death, emotion, affect, disgust and gender
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Heidi Kosonen discuss representations of voluntary death suicide, posthumanism, planetary death, emoti...
Evie King on council funerals, being a funeral officer, unidentified dead, Section 46, dying alone
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Evie King discuss council funerals, being a funeral officer, the unidentified dead, Section 46, dyi...
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
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr. Minakshi Dewan on last rites and rituals in India, gender, faith, religion, funeral pyres, sky...
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
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Nina Lykke on queer and feminist death studies; posthumanism; the more than human; necr...
DeathxDesignxCulture: Radical Re-Imaginings for End of Life Promo!
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Find out more at: https://deathxdesignxculture.info/ or follow the gram RADICAL RE-IMAGININGS FOR THE END OF LIFE From 4-6 September, the Departme...
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.
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Hannah Gould on death and the dead in Japan, changing death rituals, necromaterials, death rites, ...
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
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Juliet Hooker discuss her book Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss, language and ...
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
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, hear Yasmin Gunaratnam discuss transnational dying and end-of-life care in cities, ethnography, being a carer, writing, education wit...
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
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear M.F. (Mike) Alvarez on suicide, mental health and illness, autoethnography, fine art, reflexive wr...
Clare Hogan on death anxiety, breath work, transpersonal psychology, performing death, death cafes and seeing death as an adventure and gateway to more life.
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear author and vocal coach Clare Hogan discuss death anxiety, breath work, transpersonal psychology, p...
Professor Lucy Easthope on disaster recovery, emergency planning, risk, the Grenfell and Hillsborough disasters in the UK, humanitarian disasters, pregnancy loss, hope and wellbeing
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Lucy Easthope discuss disaster recovery, emergency planning, risk, the Grenfell and Hillsb...
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
07 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Ann Luce on suicide, the ethical reporting of suicide, suicide prevention, the Bridgend ...
Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? This episode accompanies the edited collection Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture edited by Sharon...
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
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Christopher Hood discuss the world’s largest single plane crash, memorials, disasters, Japan...
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!
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Foluke Taylor discuss writing and the permission to write (and think) differently, the limits of ...
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!
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Angeline Morrison at the 2023 Falmouth University Haunted Landscapes conference on voicing Black B...
Ru Callender on funerals, radical undertaking, eco-funerals, green undertaking, bereavement, grief and loss
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Ru Callender discuss funerals, radical undertaking, eco-funerals, green undertaking, bereavement,...
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!
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes on horror studies, the Gothic, graveyards and death, body horror, horror and trauma, film, TV and...
Professor Tony Walter and the 2023 University of Bath CDAS conference on innovation, climate and ecological emergency, mass mortality, grief, loss and social change
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, hear Professor Tony Walter at the 2023 University of Bath CDAS conference on innovation, climate and ecological emergency, mass morta...
Dr Caroline Bennett on the Cambodian Genocide, mass graves, human remains, DNA identification, anthropology and ethnography
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Caroline Bennett on the Cambodian Genocide, mass graves, the Khmer Rouge regime, the identification of bodies, DNA identification, human remains, ...
Dr Hazel Marzetti on suicide, LBGT+ mental health, suicide in/as politics, qualitative health research and critical suicide studies
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr. Hazel Marzetti discuss suicide, LBGT+ mental health, suicide in/as politics, qualitative healt...
Dr Jeremy Cohen on new religious movements, radical-longevity, immortality, transhumanism, ethnography and cryonics
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Jeremy Cohen on new religious movements, radical-longevity, immortality, transhumanism, ethnogr...
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
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Helen Wheatley discuss death in film and television, corpses, grief and loss on screen, ...
Dr Esther Ramsay-Jones on palliative psychotherapy, grief work, writing about grief, and psychotherapy and maternal figures in dementia care
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Esther Ramsay-Jones discuss palliative psychotherapy, grief work, writing about grief, and psyc...
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
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear a breakdown of the Death and the Screen Special Issue of Revenant and editor-in-chief Professor Ru...
Jason Danely on ageing, Japan, loss, ageing subjectivities unwitnessed death and anthropology
01 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Jason Danely discuss ageing, Japan, loss, ageing subjectivities unwitnessed death and anthropology...
Salena Godden on poetry, her book Mrs Death Misses Death, depicting death as a Black woman, memoir, and talking about death
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Salena Godden discuss poetry, her book Mrs Death Misses Death, depicting death as a Black woman, m...
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
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Monday Gosling on psychotherapy, grief experienced by adults and couples who were bereaved as chil...
Professor Gayle Letherby on reproductive loss, auto/biographical methodologies, loss and bereavement, childlessness, and academic and creative writing practices
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Gayle Letherby discuss reproductive loss, auto/biographical methodologies, loss and bere...
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
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Jillian A. Tullis discuss end-of-life care and communication, resisting the hospice narrative, ...
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
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 hum...
Dr John Troyer on technology and the human corpse, necrowaste, necrophilia laws, transdisciplinary death studies, grief and his sister and mother’s deaths
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr John Troyer discuss technology and the human corpse, necrowaste, necrophilia laws, transdiscipl...
Dr Sara Knox on murder, serial killers, pet death, inequality in death and dying, violence and representation and writing novels
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Sara Knox discuss murder, serial killers, pet death, inequality in death and dying, violence and r...
Dr Helen Frisby on Victorian funeral customs, traditions of death and burial, sineaters and being an independent researcher
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Helen Frisby discuss Victorian funeral customs, traditions of death and burial, sineaters and b...
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
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Ruth Penfold-Mounce discuss crime, deviance, death and popular culture, celebrity death, pedago...
Professor Frank Eyetsemitan on the psychology of death, ageing, intergenerational relationships, cross-cultural gerontology, and grief
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Frank Eyetsemitan discuss the psychology of death, ageing, intergenerational relationshi...
Lucy Willow on death and fine art, performance art and visual culture, photographing the dead, mourning, loss, grief and artistic practice
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Lucy Willow discuss death and fine art, performance art and visual culture, photographing the dead...
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
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Panagiotis Pentaris discuss thanatology, hospice social work, bereavement therapy, end-of-life ...
Dr Kate Woodthorpe on funeral practice and policy, state funeral support, death and loss as relational, public dying, and working in academia
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Kate Woodthorpe discuss funeral practice and policy, state funeral support, death and loss as r...
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
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Kami Fletcher on death and American and African American history, African American burial grou...
Gina Bond on being an anatomy technician, body donation, dissection, anatomy and death education
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, hear Gina Bond discuss a career as an anatomy technician, body donation, dissection, anatomy, death education, digitalising donor reg...
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!
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, hear Deb Rawlings and Emma Clare on Death Doulas, death education, the language we use around death and dying, and doing death differ...
Dr Khyati Tripathi on death anxiety, Covid-19 in India, psychosocial studies and comparative approaches, plus living with Rheumatoid Arthritis
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, hear Dr. Khyati Tripathi on the psychology of death, death anxiety research, Covid-19 in India, qualitative and autoethnographic work...
Dr Erica Borgstrom on End-of-Life Care, advance care planning, ethnography and imposter syndrome in academia
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, hear Dr. Erica Borgstrom discuss End-of-Life Care, anthropology, palliative care, ethnography, thanatology and death studies, as well...