Posts by Vikki Entwistle

While the Care in Funerals project formally wound down a little while ago, its rich dataset still holds plenty of potential for further analysis, thinking and writing.

Jennie Riley, Vikki Entwistle and Arnar Arnason took the 2023 meeting of the Centre for Death and Society annual conference as an opportunity…

Last week we shared this summary of project findings with people who had participated in the Care In Funerals project. We are now pleased to share them more widely.

Academic papers and the Care in Funerals online casebook resource are in progress and will be available soon.

Care in Funerals…

On 9th and 10th June 2022, several members of the Care in Funerals research team had the pleasure of attending the annual conference of the University of Bath’s Centre for Death and Society (CDAS), hosted online. The theme this year was ‘Institutions and Death’.

In addition to an interactive session…

The Care in Funerals project is investigating what can be learned from disruptions to UK funeral provision during the COVID-19 pandemic, and from how people adapted to those disruptions. In this blog post, Jennie Riley and Vikki Entwistle focus on practices involving the dead body.

Dead human bodies have multiple…

Some highlights from team members attending the DDD15 conference 

The 15th international conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal (DDD15) was held online from 1st – 4th September 2021, hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University for the Association for the Study of Death and Society. This year’s theme…

Five members of our team attended the 15^th international conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal (DDD15), which was held online from 1^st – 4^th September 2021. In this blog, we share the updates on work in progress that we presented at the conference.

We presented together…

We asked a few members of the team to share ‘something that struck you’ about what they saw in the media of the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral. 

Jennie Riley – Choice and Personalisation

I didn’t commit to the full two and a half hours of BBC coverage which preceded the…

Vikki Entwistle reflects on the value of open team discussions in Care in Funerals project meetings

In our early team meetings, we have been sharing and discussing a broad selection of ‘food for thought’ items relating to funerals: news reports; guidance about regulations and policy changes introduced because of COVID-19;…