Events
Forthcoming Events
16 December 2025 (9.30am-4.30pm)
Care and Caring (BSA Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group Annual Symposium)
University of Nottingham, UK
Past Events
12 December 2024
Death and Ageing
Centre for Ageing and the Life Course, University of Liverpool, UK
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