Research projects
Projects from Morgan Centre members
- Austerity and Altered Life-Courses
- ConnecteDNA
- Dating app connections
- Examining gender pension gaps: trajectories over time in the UK
- Girlhood and later life
- Manchester’s Village Stories Project
- Post-human Digital Intimacy and Wellbeing: Affects, Women and Digital Technologies in East and Southeast Asia
- Red Bricks and Mortar
Uncovering Hidden Inequality: Developing New Ways of Doing Death Administration
Principal investigator
Prof Kate Reed
Project team
- Prof Kate Reed (Principal Investigator)
- Prof Kate Woodthorpe (University of Bath, Co-Investigator)
- Dr Sophie Atherton (Research Associate)
Funding
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Project summary
This project explores the relationship between death administration and under-recognised forms of inequality. It examines how lesser recognised manifestations of inequality significantly impact people’s lives and experiences in the context of death, dying and bereavement. The project investigates the extent to which death administration processes create or reinforce experiences of inequality and outlines recommendations to improve current policy and practice.
Through an innovative facet methodology, the project includes:
- Policy Mapping: A detailed and accessible visual representation of current death administration requirements and processes in the UK.
- An open-ended survey with professionals working in death administration.
- An open-ended survey and interviews with bereaved individuals.
Research questions
- How do relation(ship) to the deceased, location of death, and cause of death affect experiences of UK death administration?
- How do these variations intersect to generate or exacerbate experiences of social inequality?
- To what extent do these experiences affect mental health, and how can findings improve wellbeing outcomes for bereaved individuals?