Dr. Nina Vaswani
What’s the episode about?
In this episode, hear Nina Vaswani on young men and grief during in imprisonment, childhood bereavement, masculinities and grief, trauma informed practice, comics for education and research, disenfranchised grief, grieving a death you have caused, and public health responses to grief
Who is Nina?
is Senior Research Fellow at the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice, University of Strathclyde. Her key research interests are the experience and impact of loss, bereavement and trauma in young people and how these experiences interface and shape contact with the justice system. Of particular interest is the overrepresentation of young men in justice-settings, and how their exposure to loss, bereavement and trauma might shape their developing masculinities identities, behaviours and outcomes. As a result, she is also interested in institutional and organisational responses to trauma, and the realities of trauma-informed approaches in practice. Nina was also the PI on Men Minds, a coproduced research project exploring masculinities and mental health with marginalised young men.
Resources
Men Minds comic, which opens with a story of bereavement in prison
The prevalence study is open access and is available here.
Where can I listen?
How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?
To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:
Vaswani, N. (2026) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 2 January 2026. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.31224109