Recently completed projects

Exploring emotional loneliness in older people living in retirement communities

Exploring emotional loneliness in older people living in retirement communities explores older people’s experiences of emotional loneliness using attachment theory as a critical lens. This project aims, through the gathering of detailed qualitative data, to advance understanding about how older people experience emotional loneliness and attachment and how these experiences change as they move into retirement community living. This data will then be used to develop key messages designed to facilitate improvements in care education, provision, and policy in relation to retirement community living.

The relationship between cremation and grief 1-2 years post death

The relationship between cremation and grief 1-2 years post death investigates how choices about a cremation are formed, how they relate towards the experience of bereavement immediately following a death and the subsequent behavioural, emotional, physical, social and cognitive experiences in the following 1 to 2 years.

Building Pathways to Grief and Bereavement Support in China, Australia and the Trans-Pacific

In June 2017 CDAS and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) signed a memorandum of understanding at the CDAS International Conference. This Building Pathways project will build on this existing relationship. The initial aim is to strengthen the relationship and build relations with other Institutes in China through face-to-face meetings that facilitate deeper discussions on research collaborations and research projects. Ultimately the team will pursue joint research projects at a transnational, global leadership level.

Older projects

• Death, Dying and Devolution
• Supporting Bereaved University Students
• Bereavement through substance misuse
• Dying well with reduced capacity
• Encountering Corpses
• Pilot Project: Exploring the needs of 'Befrienders' at Age UK Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES)
• Dying Well After a Long Life
• LifeDocs
• What are we saving for?
• Future cemetery project
• Engaging young people with death and natural burial
• Digital Inheritance
• Extending end of life care with social media
• The presence of the dead in society
• How and why different societies manage death differently
• Angels and Bereavement
• Compassionate Community Networks
• Death Online
• Life Centred Funerals
• Continuing Bonds
• RIP
• A Labour of Death & Labour Against Death: memorial tattoos in later modernity
• Affording a Funeral
• Future Water Laboratory
• The Future of Funeral Directing
• Baby Gardens: a privilege or predicament?
• The role of the Anatomical Pathology Technologist
• How people who are dying or mourning use the Arts
• Harnessing Death's Fire: A case study in heat capture technology at the Haycombe Cemetery and Crematorium
• Exploring the transition to survivorship in breast and bowel cancer patients and their partners
• Managing end of life care in Care Homes
• End of life care practices in the Republic of Moldova
• Jade Goody: death educator and death angel
• Garden Burials
• Roadside Memorials
• Christian Funerals in a Changing Society
• Cruse Service Evaluation