The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Death work
Turner, N. and Caswell, G. 2020
‘A relative absence: exploring professional experiences of funerals without mourners’, OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 85:4, 868-886.
Űlker, B. 2025
‘Taking care of others and the self through Islamic funeral service in Berlin’, International Migration Review, 59:2, 668-688.
Watson, J. 1988
‘Funeral specialists in Chinese society: pollution, performance and social hierarchy’, in J. Watson & E. Rawski (eds) Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, London: University of California Press, 109-134.
Webster, L. 2021
Rethinking the role of the funeral director’, in K. Rothstein & C. Staudt (eds) The Future of the Corpse: Changing Ecologies of Death and Disposition, Santa Barbara CA: Praeger, 143-177.
Wueshner, S. 2001
‘One man’s demise is another man’s gain: the growth of the funeral industry on the Iowa frontier’, Essays in Economic and Business History, 19, 245-251.
Zavattaro, S. 2021
Cemetery Sextons: Tales from Municipal Leaders, Abingdon: Routledge.
Zavattaro, S. 2020
‘“We’ve cared for the dead since we started caring”: COVID-19 and our relationship to public and private healthcare’, Public Administration Review, Jul/Aug, 701-705.
Zavattaro, S. & Guy, M. 2022
‘Learning from cemetery managers about citizen-state encounters and emotional labour’, State and Local Government Review, 54:4, 328-345.
