The Centre for Death and Life Studies (CDALS) exists to foster and conduct research into life-values, beliefs, and practices that relate to living and dying.
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24 Jan 2024
The Centre for Death-Life Studies is pleased to launch its six-volume series on ‘The Cultural History of Death’ from antiquity to the present and spanning 2,500 years with @BloomsburyBooks @BloomsburyDigtl
For more info, please visit bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-h… and then SHARE!
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29 Aug 2025
Congratulations to our very own Prof Douglas Davies FBA for his Lifetime Achievement Award. This prestigious award recognises his immense contributions to our field and his deep, thoughtful, and wise leadership over a lifetime of research and teaching. Thank you! @durham_uni
29 Aug 2025
The 2025 ASDS Lifetime Achievement Award is conferred upon Professor Douglas Davies FBA, of Durham University, for outstanding contributions to Death Studies over the course of his career. @durham_uni #ddd17
ALT ASDS logo. Text: Professor Douglas Davies, 2025 ASDS Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Picture of Professor Davies.
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21 Mar 2025
A single word can carry many meanings, speak truth, lies, cause confusion, grant wisdom or deception: is ‘closure’ one such word? 💫
We warmly invite you to attend our Closure Conference @durham_uni 9-10th April 2025, with registration open via this link: pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durha…
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15 Jan 2025
RT @drkathrynmannix: This will be fascinating!
A conference about 'Closure.'
Save the dates 9 & 10/4/25 if it's your area of interest, and…
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14 Jan 2025
@durham_uni's Centre for Death & Life Studies invites submissions for 10-min papers on the topic of closure. These can be conceptual, practice-based experiences, or work-in-progress. To apply, please send a 200-word outline by 12pm on 24/1/25 to georgina.m.robinson@durham.ac.uk✍️
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18 Sep 2024
And a fantastic piece of work it is too! We very much commend Dr Riley’s work to mark our Director’s 50th year in service to academic research and teaching across multiple disciplines, leaving generations of colleagues and students very inspired! @JennieARiley1
18 Sep 2024
I captured a flavour of my erstwhile PhD supervisor Douglas Davies’ astonishing fifty year career in this interview for @Mortality_TandF - I hope it captures his warmth, wandering and wondering doi.org/10.1080/13576275.202…
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Centre for Death and Life Studies retweeted
8 Aug 2024
📢 New pilot mentoring scheme for Early Career Researchers in Death Studies.
Mentoring can support retention, promotion, publication, grant acquisition & confidence.
Interested in being a mentor or being mentored? Find out more & apply before 30 August. deathandsociety.org/mentorin…
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Centre for Death and Life Studies retweeted
In our next webinar, Dr Colette Hawkins (Consultant in Palliative Medicine) will explore care near the end of life and #moralinjury suffered by patients, their families & healthcare staff, discussing opportunities for more honest and person-focussed care.
tinyurl.com/icmi-webinars
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6 Jun 2024
Registration is now open for the 7th International Symposium of the Death Online Research Network held in #Helsinki in October - see you there! @SocSciHelsinki
#DORSHelsinki #death #online #research #grief #digital #media #AI #afterlife #immortality
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Centre for Death and Life Studies retweeted
6 Jun 2024
We’re thrilled to announce that the next International Death, Dying & Disposal Conference (DDD17) will be hosted at the University of Utrecht, NL from Wednesday 27 to Saturday 30 August 2025! The conference theme will be ‘The Politics of Death’.
Details to follow: SAVE THE DATE!
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Centre for Death and Life Studies retweeted
29 May 2024
If you study death, dying, grief, bereavement join us this Thursday evening, 7pm, for friendly conversation and a guest appearance by @theologee_ on surviving your viva. Free and open to all post-grad researchers. Sign up at eventbrite.co.uk/e/asds-post…… @asds_death Please repost!
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Centre for Death and Life Studies retweeted
23 May 2024
Join @SrigleySusan & ASDS Secretary @theologee_ in conversation on 5 June as they delve into the fascinating topic of death education. This online event is free, but places are limited. Register here. tickettailor.com/events/thea…
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13 May 2024
Water cremations will soon be introduced in Scotland. Death studies researcher, Dr Georgina Robinson outlines the benefits to this alternative to burial and cremation.
👉brnw.ch/21wJIve
@theologee_ @DiDe_Research @DurhamCDALS @asds_death
ALT A white lily flower.
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Centre for Death and Life Studies retweeted
8 May 2024
Written by yours truly, check it out:
theconversation.com/water-cr…
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Centre for Death and Life Studies retweeted
22 Apr 2024
The full Special Issue on Digital Death with six contributions available published #OpenAccess in Social Sciences #death #dying #digital #media #history #ritual #community #afterlife #immortality #technology #data @MDPIOpenAccess
@SocSciHelsinki
mdpi.com/journal/socsci/spec…
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Centre for Death and Life Studies retweeted
18 Apr 2024
New Open Access article alert!
Alkaline hydrolysis and respect for the dead: an ethical critique
Read & download for free here...
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Centre for Death and Life Studies retweeted
17 Apr 2024
Crematorium staff were not regarded as key workers during Covid, but they still felt a responsibility to ensure the death care system didn't fall apart as cremation increased by 23% in 2020. Our briefing discussed lessons learned and changing rituals: ow.ly/tz2F50RioER
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Centre for Death and Life Studies retweeted
17 Apr 2024
Thread of live tweets from @RelMedCentre briefing on our Report ‘British Crematorium Managers & Covid-19’ w/Prof Douglas Davies, Dr Georgina Robinson, Julie Dunk & Alan Jose.
Our report is freely available online courtesy of @DurhamCDALS via @durham_uni: durham-repository.worktribe.…
17 Apr 2024
We’ve just started today’s briefing looking at #Cremation after #Covid with new report authors Rev Prof Douglas Davies & Dr @theologee_ of @durhamcdlas, Alan Jose and Julie Dunk of ICCM.
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17 Apr 2024
RMC briefing 1200 today Weds 17 April: Cremation industry after Covid, on impact of intense workload, new roles for clergy and growth of direct cremations. Speakers include Prof Douglas Davies & @theologee_
Zoom link from info@religionmediacentre.org.uk
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Centre for Death and Life Studies retweeted
8 Apr 2024
The Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University is expanding its staff and currently seeking a talented individual to fill the role of Assistant Professor in Contemporary Islam.
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Centre for Death and Life Studies retweeted
8 Apr 2024
Extended deadline for #DORS #symposium in @helsinkiuni till 26th April; we warmly invite you to submit your work, please see the CFP for themes and what #death and the #digital might mean.
Please share!
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