The British Sociological Association

Useful Information

Publications

• Read What it means to be 'into' Death, published in Network, Autumn 2008 issue.
• Clark, D. (ed) (1993) The Sociology of Death (Oxford: Blackwell)
• Field, D., Hockey, J. and Small, N. (eds) (1997) Death, Gender and Ethnicity (London: Routledge)
• Hockey, J., Katz, J. and Small, N. (2001) Grief, Mourning and Death Ritual (Buckingam: Open University Press)
• Hockey, J., Komaromy, C. and Woodthorpe, K. (eds) (2010) The Matter of Death: space, place and materiality (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
• Seale, C. (1998) Constructing Death (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press)
• Howarth, G. (2008) Death & Dying: A Sociological Introduction (Cambridge: Polity)
• Kellhear, A. (2009) The Study of Dying: From Autonomy to Transformation (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press)
• Kellehear, A. (2007) A Social History of Dying (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press)
• Walter, T. (1999) On Bereavement: The Culture of Grief (Maidenhead: Open Uni Press) 

Where can I study the Sociology of Death?

• Open University
• University of Bath
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Nottingham - Facing Death and Loss, Grief and Bereavement - BSc Options -Postgraduate/MSc Options
• University of Roehampton
• University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Sociology of Death Research - Recent Research

University of York project into the financial implications of the death of a partner

• Research summary.
• Research report (and annexes and appendices).
• Project page (with links to journal articles and conference papers).

Academics specialising in Death, Dying and Bereavement

• Kathy Almack, University of Nottingham
• Erica Borgstrom, London School of Health and Tropical Medicine
• Glenys Caswell, University of Nottingham
• Julie Ellis, University of Sheffield
• Jenny Hockey, University of Sheffield
• Tiffany Jenkins, Institute of Ideas
• Carol Komaromy, Open University
• Ruth MacManus, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Kate Woodthorpe, University of Bath