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A co-hosted event about bereavement from Open Thanatology and the WELS Faculty, supported by the Comms teams. Features a 1 hour recording (transcript and overview provided) of four panelists providing their perspectives on 'Bereavement - what helps' based on their research and professional experience. Topics included grief support pyramid, men's grief, social media, and cultural diversity and bereavement.

Seminar presentation by Dr Jane Ribbens McCarthy given to the Open Thanatology group in September 2021.

As de Beauvoir (1949) argues, for women, the future is often haunted by phantoms of the past, which impact on the present. This chapter draws on one woman’s narrative journey from childhood to motherhood, examining how ‘troubles’ feature in her life in the form of domestic and familial abuse. Specifically, the permeating nature of ‘trouble’ is demonstrated in her ideas of what she might become and what she is afraid of becoming; and whilst she recognises abuse as a harm to be avoided if possible, and/or repaired, it is also routinely normalised in her account.