Death Day 2014 : programme

RESEARCH DAY ON INTERPRETATIONS OF DEATH & DYING
7th November 2014, Kingston University

JG0001
9.30- 10.00 Welcome
10.00-10.25 Making End-of-life Decisions from the perspective of Intensive

Care Consultants: Balancing Professional Tension and

Deciding upon the Status of Death
Emmanouela Konstantara, University of Surrey

10.25-10.50 Stories of fatherly suicide
Professor Dariusz Galasinski, Wolverhampton University

10.50-11.15 The Oxygen Man and the Breaking of the Vessels: a creative

response to bereavement by suicide
Joanne Limburg, Kingston University

11.15-11.45 Panel Questions & Discussion

11.45-12.00 Break & light lunch (and move to JG3003)

12.00-14.00 Death Café

Sharon Young, Kingston University

14.00-14.25 Psychological and emotional benefits of family-led funerals
versus funeral director-led funerals
Josefine Speyer, Natural Death Centre

14.25-14.50 Metaphors for good and bad deaths in interviews with

hospice managers
Professor Elena Semino, Lancaster University;
Dr Zsofia Demjen, Open University

14.50-15.15 Care home staff’s perspectives towards providing end of life

care in a residential care setting
I-Ling Yeh, Kingston University

15.15-15.45 Panel Questions & Discussion

15.45-16.00 Tea & Coffee

16.00-16.45 Poster Presentations

16.45-17.00 Closing Remarks
Korina Giaxoglou, Kingston University