The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Death work
Kipnis, A. 2019
‘Funerals and religious modernity in China’, Review of Religion and Chinese Society, 6, 253-272.
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Lapatha, J., Largo, Z., Lawas, F. & 4 others 2019
‘Living with the dead: a qualitative study on the social well-being of Filipino families living in cemeteries in Cebu City’, Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 7:1, 94-104.
Longoria, T. 2014
‘Are we all equal at death?: Death competence in municipal cemetery management’, Death Studies, 38:6, 355-364.
Morgan, K.N. 1984
‘The emergence of the American landscape professional: John Notman an the design of rural cemeteries’, Journal of Garden History, 4:3, 269-289.
Naseer, S., Majeed, A. & Zia, S. 2025
‘The living among the dead: a phenomenological study of cemetery workers’ mental health’, Journal of Professional & Applied Psychology, 6:2, 193-209.
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Nielsen, M. 2022
‘Making the cemetery work – the role of cemetery staff in grave plot choice’, Mortality, 27:3, 369-382.
Parsons, B. 2003
‘Conflict in the context of care: an examination of role conflict between the bereaved and the funeral director in the UK’, Mortality, 8:1, 67-87.
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Parsons, B. 2018
‘Robertson at the City: portrait of a cemetery superintendent’, Genealogy, 2, 31.
Petrillo, G. 1990
‘The distant mourner: an examination of the American gravedigger’, Omega – Journal of Death and Dying, 20:2, 139-148.
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Pinheiro, F., Fischer, F. & Cobianchi, C. 2012
‘Work of gravediggers and health’, Work, 41, 5819-822.
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Pruitt, A-S. 2018
‘Redoing gender: how women in the funeral industry use essentialism for equality’, Gender, Work & Organization 25:2, 144-158.
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Randeria, S. 1989
‘Carrion and corpses: conflict in categorizing untouchability in Gujarat’, European Journal of Sociology, 30, 171-91.
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Robins, D. & Smith, R. 2021
‘Hidden labour in funeral directing: providing care to “difficult” dead bodies’, Mortality, 26:1, 100-111.
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Sağir, A. 2024
‘Bathing the dead, the dirty work: stigmatization of gassals in modern Türkiye’, Sociological Perspectives, 67:1-3, 42-63.
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Salimi, M. & Ruhani, A. 2023
‘Nobody likes the forgotten guardians of the departed: a critical ethnographic study on social isolation of ghassals’, OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 00302228231199526.
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Scandura, J. 1996
‘Deadly professions: Dracula, undertakers and the embalmed corpse’, Victorian Studies, 40, 1, 1-30.
Shäfer, C. 2007
‘Post-mortem personalization: pastoral power and the New Zealand funeral director’, Mortality, 12, 4-21.
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Taylor, M. 2014
‘The Civil War experiences of a New Orleans undertaker’, Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, 55:3, 261-281.
Toulson, R. 2013
The meanings of red envelopes: promises and lies at a Singaporean Chinese funeral’, Journal of Material Culture, 18:2, 155–169.
