What is The Death Studies Podcast?

The Death Studies Podcast is a platform for the diversity of voices in, around and contributing to the academic field of Death Studies.

The Death Studies Podcast features emerging as well as established researchers, independent scholars and practitioners sharing their ideas, research and experience. Contributions from all disciplines, from different countries, cultures and contexts, as well as from diverse and diverging perspectives, are all welcome.

As theories and ideas around death and dying are always changing, this podcast aims to serve as a starting point to ongoing dialogue between the range of people involved in researching dying, death and the dead.

We aim to support the development of the death studies community and individual researchers, as well as the dissemination of research in an accessible format.

What are we most proud of?

We are delighted that…

  • guests from our podcast have gone on to give talks and develop their research and networks as a result of their appearances on the show

  • we have been featured on the BBC with Laura Grimshaw and Salena Godden on podcasts about death, grief and celebrating life (Podcast Radio Hour, BBC Radio 4 Extra, 18 March 2022) &  featured on BBC Three Counties Radio, BBC Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Essex on Babs Michel’s Breakfast Show in December 2024

  • we have won research funding from the University of Bath’s Centre for Death and Society

  • we have been invited to attend and take part in a wide range of conferences

  • we have delivered successful academic podcasting workshops supporting others to podcast their research

  • we continue to develop and grow

Where can I listen?

You can listen wherever you prefer to find your podcasts, or on Spotify via your browser. You can find all episodes and links to each individual one on our dedicated episodes page.

Want to support us?

You can donate at our Ko-Fi page where we also sell sweaters, badges and postcards.

Are you citing us?

Each episode has its own individual reference and DOI, which can be found on our episodes page or in the shownotes wherever you listen. You can cite us in your reading lists and in your research.