Events
Forthcoming Events
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Past Events
14 December 2023
Death and Sexuality: BSA Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group Annual Symposium
Online
9 December 2022
Death and Gender Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group Annual Symposium
Hybrid Delivery (online or in-person at the Open University)
2 December 2021
Death and Sociology
Online
3 December 2020
Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group Virtual Symposium: Transitions and Transformations
Online - Unfortunately, due to a technical error the planned recorded presentations of this event are not available.
5 December 2019
BSA Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group Annual Symposium: Death and Relationships
University of Sheffield, UK
25 January 2019
Death and Violence - A symposium hosted by the BSA Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement and Violence and Society Study Groups
University of Salford, UK
1 December 2017
BSA Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group Annual Symposium: Death and Time
Programme and Abstract Booklet
BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London, UK
2 December 2016
BSA Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group Annual Symposium: Death, Dying, Bereavement and Technologies in the 21st Century
University of Sheffield, UK
13 November 2015
BSA Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group Annual Symposium - Programme - Abstracts
BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London, UK
14 November 2014
Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement (DDB) Study Group Conference: Death, Inequality and Social Difference -Programme - Abstracts
BSA London Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London, UK
Presentations from the Conference are available below:
- What makes the experience of bereavement through military death different? by Liz Rolls
- Organ donation, ethnicity and the negotiation of death: ethnographic insights from the UK by Jessie Cooper and Ciara Kierans
- “Had he had cancer I’d have been fine”: inequalities in care provision at the end of life by Emily Moran, Sue Boase, Brooke Swash and Stephen Barclay
- Negotiating personal networks: lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans older people’s networks of support towards the end of life by Kathryn Almack
- Exploring responses to death in varying cultural contexts: adopting a reflexive approach by Ruth Evans, Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Sophie Bowlby, Joséphine Wouango and Fatou Kébé
Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group: Children and Death - PROGRAMME - ABSTRACTS
- Re-Conceptualising Adult Orphans: A Scoping Literature Review by Rosaline S Barbour, Carol Komaromy, Bethany Morgan-Brett and Michael Barbour
- Young People's Encounters with Death: A Normal or Troubling Childhood Experience? by Jane Ribbens McCarthy
- A generative metaphor: Dying and death in young children’s imaginative play by Rachel Rosen
- ‘We’re ok with death.’ Young people talk about the end-of-life by Sarah Coombs
- A beginning of an exploration of children’s play and death by Maggie Jackson
19 November 2012
Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group Annual Symposium: Death and the Family
BSA London Meeting Room, London, UK - PROGRAMME
Read the REPORT from the symposium, published in the Journal of Illness, Crisis and Loss.
Presentations from the Symposium are available below:
- Meanings of the family in the context of death and organ donation on intensive care units by Charlotte Kenten, Magi Sque, Myfanwy Morgan
- Through the Family Lens: how death illuminates the modern family by Hannah Rumble and Kate Woodthorpe
- Reconceptualising the family and care-centric models: What can a sociology of personal life bring to death studies? by Julie Ellis
- The Savage & Beautiful Country by Sukey Parnell
- Death in the family as a vital conjuncture? Intergenerational care and responsibility following bereavement in Senegal by Ruth Evans
- We ARE Family: disenfranchised grief, griefwork and perinatal loss by Gayle Letherby and Deborah Davidson
- Remembering Through Objects: The loss of a parent in young adulthood in the Netherlands by Renske Visser
- The role of family carers in end of life care by Laurie Dunn
- Becoming the Older Generation: Love, Loss and the Midlife Transition by Bethany Morgan Brett
21 November 2011
The Impact of Death: policy implications in the twenty first century - PROGRAMME
BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London, UK
15 November 2010
Joint BSA Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group and BSA Media Study Group Event: Death and the Media -Programme
BSA Meeting Room, London, UK
16 November 2009
Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group Annual Symposium
University of Sheffield, UK
The Symposium was a great success. Presentations are now available:
- The interface between grief research and practice by Moira O'Connor
- Social Class and the Right to Die Movement: existing evidence by Marion Judd
- End of life care: socio-economic status as a predictor of access to palliative care services by Charlotte Wilson
- Spirituality in Contemporary Funerals by Margaret Holloway
- “Simple, innocent customs”: ‘Folk’ funerals in Yorkshire, c.1840-1914. by Helen Frisby
- Dyadic Death: Homicide followed by Suicide in Yorkshire and the Humber by Marilyn J Gregory