Abstract
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 in which we introduced and demonstrated the project’s ethics casebook, we also hosted a panel presentation – four short papers, each focussing on an ‘institution,’ illuminating something of the role these institutions played in death care during the pandemic. After Abi Pattenden’s introduction to the project, we opened with Arnar Arnason, speaking about family and community. Jennie Riley then presented on religious institutions and how they navigated care for the body. Paolo Macaggno continued by examining funeral directors’ policies for the viewing (or not) of the body during the pandemic. Jennie finished up by exploring funeral hybridization in crematoria.
In addition to an interactive session in which we introduced and demonstrated the project’s ethics casebook, we also hosted a panel presentation – four short papers, each focussing on an ‘institution,’ illuminating something of the role these institutions played in death care during the pandemic. After Abi Pattenden’s introduction to the project, we opened with Arnar Arnason, speaking about family and community. Jennie Riley then presented on religious institutions and how they navigated care for the body. Paolo Macaggno continued by examining funeral directors’ policies for the viewing (or not) of the body during the pandemic. Jennie finished up by exploring funeral hybridization in crematoria.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - Jun 2022 |
| Event | Centre for Death and Society Annual Conference - Online Duration: 9 Jun 2022 → 9 Jun 2022 |
Conference
| Conference | Centre for Death and Society Annual Conference |
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| Period | 9/06/22 → 9/06/22 |
Bibliographical note
This study is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, as part of UK Research and Innovation’s rapid response to Covid-19.Fingerprint
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Care in Funerals: Learning from the Ways COVID-19 Disrupted Funeral Provision in the UK, 2021-2022
Riley, J. (Creator), Entwistle, V. (Creator), Arnason, A. (Creator) & Maccagno, P. (Creator), UK Data Service, 2023
DOI: 10.20392/b9ea813a-6d8c-46e5-8e82-bb892459e7df, https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/856027/
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